IS THE WORLD BEING DEHUMANIZED?

We live every day being misled and deceived. In cases where we are not deceived, often we are the ones who are deceiving others...

Are you aware of the variety of things that are constantly numbing our consciousness?

Technology’s non-stop evolution is being used in order to make us consume more than we actually need to. Today, we are nothing without a smartphone, and on top of that, we are worthless if we are not using a popular brand! It is a system that makes us feel valuable only when we consume increasingly expensive technology.

Before we get used to the updated technological product that we bought, they release a newer version. Modern mind has transformed the idea of nature from being a living organism to a nonorganic mechanism, namely into a machine, and the same mentality is now planning to turn humans into a device:

Human 2.0!

In parallel with the technological advancements our philosophical interests started to focus on post-human topics such as brain simulation, mind uploading, singularity, genobility etc. The idea that some people are superior to others due to their genetic or mental abilities is a recurring theme in this approach. In the next sections we will discuss how the transformation from ancient philosophy to modern philosophy took place with a focus and emphasis on the human brain. More specifically, one common claim of this point of view is that certain people have superior genes or transhuman traits and the benefits that go along with them Transhumanism1.

Modern humans become gradually condemned to a level that lacks meaning because of their detachment from the Sacred. They cannot make sense of their pain, and instead of seeing the things that happen to them as a test of patience, they begin to see it as an ordeal.

Everything that was once said to be impossible has happened in just two years. The whole world is moving towards an authoritarian system. Yet, we wanted to talk about beauty. As the author said, we would have planted the world and then moved away.

Metaverse, the virtual world created by technology, promises people an imaginary paradise. Is this a repetition of Adam and Eve’s fall to the world, to a lower reality, as a result of biting the apple? Will humanity be reduced to another low-level bad copy of the reality that it currently lives in?

Artificial intelligence, which is still weak, is not very troubled yet. But powerful AI is indeed advancing at an alarming rate. This is a concern for future generations.

Moreover, religions claim that all developments happen with His permission, and not a leaf falls without His permission. Adam and Eve had to be sent to earth because if they had stayed in heaven, they would not have had a test. So, is this technology presented as a test to humanity today?

How do religions describe God?

Isn’t He the one who sees, hears, follows and records everything and everywhere?

Everybody and every single thing! If so, does not the powerful artificial intelligence do the same ? Yes, it does the same... It can monitor everything inside and outside of us, our emotions, neurochemicals in our brains... It is still not decided which ethical values this powerful artificial intelligence will rule with. Or rather, maybe it is decided, and we don’t know it yet. It will likely be based on the ethical and moral values of the global elites.

In the near future, perhaps we will not be talking about states, peoples, groups, communities or religions. The world will turn into a uniform humanity, where powerful artificial intelligence will rule, states will be replaced by giant corporations, and there will be no borders. It doesn’t seem possible to avoid it. The questions are:

How will the ethics of this order be established?

What will humanity risk to regain its freedom of rebellion?

How will artificial intelligence, the new imposed god of humanity, and new scientific religion construct heaven and hell? One must compare how religions describe the attributes of God with the emerging religion.

Science was once a taboo and eventually turned into a new religion. Powerful artificial intelligence is put as the main god of this religion. This powerful AI is under the rule of the dark forces, at least for now. This is not a fantastic story; it is a state of alarm that religious truth expresses and tries to convey in every century. This is the final act of the war that the devil has just started with the creation of Adam.

Our individual will that God has given us, even when we are in rebellion against Him, is being taken away from us. Sometimes they come by pretending to be beneficial, sometimes they continue this war through imposition. They fight as openly as possible, and announcing their steps in advance, and laying out their plans with a wide variety of individuals and institutions.

Humans made a choice, and said, “We are freely involved in all of this comfort.” While we are screaming that we are free, our free will is actually being taken away from us without facing it.

In the late nineties, philosophers objected to surveillance cameras. And then smartphones, watches appeared... These were always shown as if they serve for the good of humanity... How many calories did I lose, how many kilograms did I gain, let me measure my heart rate...? However, it was another operation in which all the data in force are collected and transferred. Moreover, they do all this by shouting slogans of human health and protecting the planet!

A system is being built in which everything, especially human will, is monitored. Even your breathing, your feelings, thoughts and dreams are monitored... Look at the point we’ve reached! Ethical values, traditions, the customs that make you human, that make you an individual, that make you a member of society and that make you free; at the same time, they are being taken away.

Is morality such a volatile thing? If morals and ethics are changing so fast, it means that we are manipulated.

Only God gives us freedom. If He prevails, we are free, and if He does not, we have no support. How will we use our will, how will we sin and fall, to learn who we are?

How will we show our remorse for a sin, how will we return to Him for repentance?

Is our salvation to return to the sacred as concepts become hollow? This is it, isn’t it?

When people turn their lives toward the sacred, they introduce meaning into their lives. Humans are not much different from monkeys when there is no sacredness.

It is the construction of identity that distinguishes people from other beings.

If we feel a responsibility to the next generation, to the earth, and if we do not want that generation to come out while destroying all our values and meanings with arguments that are too strong for us to even respond, now is our time to do the work...

Deepnote:

1 Transhumanism is a “technoprogressive” socio-political and intellectual move- ment that advocates for the use of technology in order to transform the human organism radically, with the ultimate goal of becoming “posthuman”. To this end, transhumanists focus on and encourage the use of new and emerging technologies, such as genetic engineering and brain-machine interfaces. In support of their vision for humanity, and as a way of reassuring those “bioconservatives” who may balk at the radical nature of that vision, transhumanists claim common ground with a number of esteemed thinkers and traditions, from the ancient philosophy of Plato and Aristotle to the postmodern philoso- phy of Nietzsche.

It should be noted that today, even in the academic vernacular, the term “humanism” is typically used in a loose, historically ambiguous manner that blurs the line between humanism(s) and the Enlightenment. In this usage, the term is usually intended to refer nonspecifically to modern secular humanism, with an implied emphasis on the continuity between this movement and earlier “humanisms,” in particular, Renaissance humanism. This is how transhumanists, as well as those writing about them, typically use the term. For example, Max More writes that transhumanism “shares many elements of humanism, including a respect for reason and science, a commitment to progress, and a valuing of human (or transhuman) existence in this life rather than in some supernat- ural ‘afterlife’” (More, 1990, 1), while Bostrom identifies “rational thinking, freedom, tolerance, democracy, and concern for our fellow human beings” (Bostrom, 2003, 4) as humanist values taken up by transhumanism.

Transhumanists also draw upon and claim continuity with other intellectual and cultural traditions, such as the scientific tradition (e.g., Roger Bacon), ancient philosophy (e.g., Plato and Aristotle), and others.

An obvious motivation for such claims of continuity with various esteemed traditions is to reassure those, especially those so-called “bioconser- vatives,” who worry about the radical nature of the transhumanist project and the impli- cations of potential discontinuity between the human and the posthuman.It is crucially important to give proper scholarly attention to transhumanism now, not only because of its recent and ongoing rise as a cultural and political force (and the concomitant potential ramifications for bioethical discourse and public policy), but because of the imminence of major breakthroughs in the kinds of technologies that transhumanism focuses on. Accord- ing to transhumanists, a “transhuman” is a “transitional human” who aims at becoming posthuman and takes the appropriate steps accordingly (e.g. technological enhancement) toward that end - whereas a “posthuman”, the ideal and the ultimate goal of transhuman- ists, is a being so radically different in physical, cognitive, and emotional capacities from normal or current humans as to be no longer human, unambiguously. Transhumanist rhet- oric on the posthuman typically goes much further than this. However, for example, in his “Letter from Utopia” Nick Bostrom adopts the narrative voice of a future posthuman addressing current humans, and he writes “You could say I am happy, that I feel good. You could say that I feel surpassing bliss. But these are words invented to describe hu- man experience. What I feel is as far beyond human feeling as my thoughts are beyond human thought. I wish I could show you what I have in mind.” (Bostrom, 2010, pages 3-4).

Elsewhere, he suggests that the intelligence gap between posthumans and humans will be less comparable to the intelligence gap between a human genius and a human of average intelligence than it will be to that between a human and a beetle or a worm (Bo- strom, 2014, page 112). Long a fairly small or even fringe movement in philosophy and futurology, transhumanism is gaining steam as a cultural and intellectual movement.