FM-2030 (October 15, 1930 in Brussels – July 8, 2000 in New York) was an author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist and consultant.[1] FM-2030 was born Fereidoun M. Esfandiary (Persian: فریدون اسفندیاری). He became notable as a transhumanist with the book Are You a Transhuman?: Monitoring and Stimulating Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World, published in 1989. In addition, he wrote a number of works of fiction under his original name F.M.

The son of an Iranian diplomat, he travelled widely as a child,living in 17 countries by age 11, then, as a young man, he represented Iran as a basketball player in the 1948 Olympic Games[2] and served on the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine from FM-2030 (October 15, 1930 in Brussels – July 8, 2000 in New York) was an author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist and consultant.[1] FM-2030 was born Fereidoun M. Esfandiary (Persian: فریدون اسفندیاری‎). He became notable as a transhumanist with the book Are You a Transhuman?: Monitoring and Stimulating Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World, published in 1989. In addition, he wrote a number of works of fiction under his original name F.M. The son of an Iranian diplomat, he travelled widely as a child,living in 17 countries by age 11, then, as a young man, he represented Iran as a basketball player in the 1948 Olympic Games[2] and served on the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine from 1952 to 1954.

Are You a Transhuman?: Monitoring and Stimulating Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World by FM-2030. Towards the end of the eighties, I had came across a few unusual books, which retrospectively had somehow influenced what I am doing today & in fact what I love to do today i.e.

What does it mean to be human? Biology has a simple answer: If your DNA is consistent with Homo sapiens, you are human — but we all know that humanity is a lot more complex and nuanced than that.

Other schools of science might classify humans by their sociological or psychological behavior, but again we know that actually being human is more than just the sum of our thoughts and actions. You can also look at being human as a sliding scale. If you were to build a human from scratch, from the bottom up, at some point you cross the threshold into humanity — if you believe in evolution, at some point we ceased being a great ape and became human. Likewise, if you slowly remove parts from a human, you cross the threshold into inhumanity. Again, though, we run into the same problem: How do we codify, classify, and ratify what actually makes us human? Does adding empathy make us human?

Does removing the desire to procreate make us inhuman? If I physically alter my brain to behave in a different, non-standard way, am I still human? If I have all my limbs removed and my head spliced onto a robot, am I still human? (See:.) At first glance these questions might sound inflammatory and hyperbolic, or perhaps surreal and sci-fi, but don’t be fooled: In the next decade, given the continued acceleration of computer technology and biomedicine, we will be forced to confront these questions and attempt to find some answers. Transhumanism is a cultural and intellectual movement that believes we can, and should, improve the human condition through the use of advanced technologies. One of the core concepts in transhumanist thinking is life extension: Through genetic engineering, nanotech, cloning, and other emerging technologies, eternal life may soon be possible.

Likewise, transhumanists are interested in the ever-increasing number of technologies that can boost our physical, intellectual, and psychological capabilities beyond what humans are naturally capable of (thus the term transhuman). Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), for example, which speeds up reaction times and learning speed by, has already been used by the US military to train snipers. On the more extreme side, transhumanism deals with the concepts of mind uploading (to a computer), and what happens when we finally craft a computer with greater-than-human intelligence (the technological singularity).

(See:.) Beyond the obvious benefits of eternal life or superhuman strength, transhumanism also investigates the potential dangers and ethical pitfalls of human enhancement. In the case of life extension, if every human on Earth suddenly stopped dying, overpopulation would trigger a very rapid and very dramatic socioeconomic disaster. Unless we stopped giving birth to babies, of course, but that merely rips open another can of worms: Without birth and death, would society and humanity continue to grow and evolve, or would it stagnate, suffocated by the accumulated ego of intellectuals and demagogues who just will not die? Likewise, if only the rich have access to intelligence- and strength-boosting drugs and technologies, what would happen to society?

Should everyone have the right to boost their intellect? Would society still operate smoothly if everyone had an IQ of 300 and five doctorate degrees?

As you can see, things get complicated quickly when discussing transhumanist ideas — and life extension and augmented intelligence and strength are just the tip of the iceberg! This philosophical and ethical complexity stems from the fact that transhumanism is all about fusing humans with technology — and technology is advancing, improving, and breaking new ground very, very quickly. Humans have always used technology, of course — our ability to use tools and grasp concepts such as science and physics are what set us apart from other animals — but never has society been so intrinsically linked and underpinned by it. As we have seen in just the last few years, with the advent of the smartphone and ubiquitous high-speed mobile networks, just a handful of new technologies now have the power to completely change how we interact with the the world and people around us.

Humans, on the other hand, and the civilizations that they build, move relatively slowly. It took us millions of years to discover language, and thousands more to discover medicine and the scientific method. In the few thousand years since, up until the last century or so, we doubled the human life span, but neurology and physiology were impenetrable black boxes. In just the last 100 years, we’ve doubled our life span again, created and, begun to understand, and started to make serious headway with boosting intellectual and physical prowess. We’ve already mentioned how tDCS is being used to boost cranial capacity, and as we’ve seen in recent years, sportspeople have definitely shown the efficacy of physical doping. It is due to this jarring juxtaposition — the historical slowness of human and societal evolution vs. The breakneck pace of modern technology — that many find transhumanism to be unpalatable. After all, as I’ve described it here, transhumanism is almost the very definition of unnatural.

You’re quite within your rights to find transhumanism a bit, well, weird. And it is weird, don’t get me wrong — but so are most emerging technologies. Do you think that your great grandparents weren’t wigged out by the first television sets? Before it garnered the name “television,” one of its inventors gave it the rather spooky name of “distant electric vision.” Can you imagine the wariness in which passengers approached the first steam trains? Vast mechanical beasts that could pull hundreds of tons and moved far faster than the humble — but state-of-the-art — horse and carriage. The uneasiness that surround new, paradigm-shifting technologies isn’t new, and it has only been amplified by the exponential acceleration of technology that has occurred during our lifetime.

If you were born 500 years ago, odds are that you wouldn’t experience a single societal-shifting technology in your lifetime — today, a 40 year old will have lived through the creation of the PC, the internet, the smartphone, and brain implants, to name just a few life-changing technologies. It is unsettling, to say the least, to have the rug repeatedly pulled out from under you, especially when it’s your livelihood at stake. Just think about how many industries and jobs have been obliterated or subsumed by the arrival of the digital computer, and it’s easy to see why we’re wary of transhumanist technologies that will change the very fabric of human civilization. The good news, though, is that humans are almost infinitely adaptable.

While you or I might balk at the idea of a brain-computer interface that allows us to download our memories to a PC, and perhaps upload new memories a la The Matrix, our children — who can use smartphones at the age of 24 months, and communicate chiefly through digital means — will probably think nothing of it. For the children of tomorrow, living through a series of disruptive technologies that completely change their lives will be the norm. There might still be some resistance when I opt to have my head spliced onto a robotic exoskeleton, but within a generation children will be used to seeing Iron Seb saving people from car crashes and flying alongside airplanes.

The fact of the matter is that transhumanism is just a modern term for an age-old phenomenon. We have been augmenting our humanity — our strength, our wisdom, our empathy — with tools since prehistory.

We have always been spooked by technologies that seem unnatural or that cause us to act in inhuman ways — it’s simply human nature. That all changes with the children of today, however. To them, anything that isn’t computerized, digital, and touch-enabled seems unnatural.

To them, the smartphone is already an extension of the brain; to them, mind uploading, bionic implants and augmentations, and powered exoskeletons will just be par for the course. To them, transhumanism will just seem like natural evolution — and anyone who doesn’t follow suit, just like those fuddy-duddies who still don’t have a smartphone, will seem thoroughly inhuman. Now read: [Image credit: Darkart.cz]. So you’d prefer to just die? With no guarantee of anything after death – there might be life after death, but there might not be. So to extend a human life is desirable for a lot of people, personally I don’t think the average human lifespan is long enough. I’d also welcome any enhancements that technology can offer – greater intelligence, strength, etc.

I don’t understand your connection between rich people and insane people – that seems a bit prejudiced to me. Did you ever consider that while you’re out blowing your wages on drink and drugs, they’re still at the office working hard towards their future. Jealousy is an ugly thing. You can eradicate stupidity even today, but access to education is not available to *everyone* even in first world countries. Or, to flip the coin: what grants that if technological intelligence (knowledge upload a la the matrix) is available, it will be accessible to everyone? Smallpox, measles, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and poliomyelitis vaccines are dime a dozen, yet there are tens or hundreds of millions unvaccinated worldwide and dying. See, it’s not the technology, it’s the policies that matter and can make the difference.

The populist movements of gimme gimme and dimwits will end in a great culling and those without will suffer greatly. So to answer succinctly, no, the more valuable the commodity is, the more expensive it will become. Things that extend life or quality of life, cure disease, and such will always be out of reach to those without excessive funds. Education, unless vocationally focused, is virtually useless when compared to real world situations. Far to many degrees out there for the jobs they perform.

Wealth accumulation is what will allow one to enjoy the fruits of the technological future. There have already been many movies made about this and their ultimate goals. We have all been conditioned to believe that everyone else is stupid except ourselves and the people we like or call family. This is an ancient tool that has been used to divide and separate us for millennia. Until we awake and realize that all 7.5 billion of us are ONE, we will always be ruled by despots and psychopaths.

We are the people, we have the power but we constantly give it away because that is just easier than doing the one thing that will save us and save our planet That one thing is Love. Love each other and work together for the good of all mankind. And NOT allow a few members to make decisions for the rest of us. Decisions that are actually experiments that could kill us all and certainly ruin our earth. And if you believe that I am over exaggerating, then you must not know about GMOs, Chemtrails, HAARP, Codex Alimentarius and a whole host of other ‘improvements’ to the human condition that we are suffering under. If they had super-intelligence they would’ve respected life more? The enhancements would’ve given them MORE power to eliminate the life that they deemed ‘inferior’.

How blind are you?!? Good grief, I’ve never seen such a stupid comment. All of these ‘transhumanists’ overestimate humanity and human nature itself. Humans are run by this on many different levels. “I am better than you.” Humans are also violent. They think that technology will magically make everyone perfect.

NO it will not. Throwing insults? You’ve called several people on here “dumbass” and such simply because you didn’t agree with them! You should eat your own words. I wasn’t insulting anyone, but merely stating the truth. Yes technology does amazing things, but you seem to think it’s perfect and immortal.

No, it’s not. FYI, Hiroshima killed hundreds of thousands in Japan and if the Nazis had better technology, it would STRENGTHEN them, not enlighten them as to realizing their mission was completely evil. It doesn’t work like that. Give warlords more advanced weapons and you’ll see how “enlightened” they become. The only one I’m angry at is you.You think you’re so above everyone else. You can never take criticism, but you say others are throwing insults and are stupid. Point a finger and the rest point back at you.

VirtualMark, thank you for calling me an idiot, that surely makes you look super-smart. Some words are burdened with more than one meaning. Telling to a random German “to each his own” is as safe and nice as going in Harlem and telling to a random African-American “go fetch some cotton, nigger”. “Arbeit macht frei” predates the Nazis, too, and may sound innocent, but some people are not so fine with it’s merit: “Steve Goldman of the Holocaust Memorial Center says, even though the intention behind the posting is unknown, it’s offensive.” Jean, my apologies, it was never my intention to call you a Nazi, explicit or implicit, but rather point this out, because, for example, in Germany or Israel they do not think of this as of pollution, but take the issue rather seriously and you may get more than a funny look for sporting said phrases. Germany’s Penal Code, for one, punishes every display or spreading of Nazi symbols or sayings like the above.

I am sorry we got into this polemic, my initial intention was to inform. Your points are right on the mark, Sipho. We so easily forget that whenever new technology is introduced it is usually to sell us another piece of junk, microwaves, flat-screen tvs,etc. The light/scalar technology required to produce both of those could have been turned toward formulating something that would enrich humanity, not something to enslave us faster and kill us better.

We can almost forget, and most of us do, that we haven’t cured (or found a legitimate vaccine) for a single disease since Polio in 1954. So anyone who truly believes that any new technological development will be used to make human life better is still asleep and dreaming.

I totally agree with you Lynne! You have a great point here Human-beings always use their intelligent to gain power over their own kind that’s how it works A good example is VirtualMark who thinks he is smarter than the rest of us and calls the others stupid although they didn’t go through the process of Trans-humanism yet:D and they are still have the same level of intelligence as the rest of us.

So imagine if they get smarter! I dont think they will look back at the rest of us and try to save us but instead slave us because to him we are stupid:) •. It’s an interesting question! If we could one day upload our consciousness into a virtual world – would it still be us? It’s a similar question for teleportation – if we teleport by transmitting our information, is that new being still us? I doubt these questions will be answered in our lifetime, although I think we will see some ways to enhance humans before then. There’s already a range of nootropic drugs available that supposedly improve intelligence, plus tDCS, and that’s just in 2013.

But the human brain is still years away from being understood – our most powerful computers can only simulate a tiny part of it, and I don’t think that’s even in real time. So we need many times the computing power we have today to just simulate one mind, let alone have a system capable of running millions of minds in a virtual world. What is wrong with just dying?

It seems to me that you’ve dressed up your own dissatisfaction with life with a vague and unreal vision of extended existence. Why can’t people be content with the known known of birth and death?

The human lifespan is enormous, it’s merely the act of sitting around wondering about unholistic notions discussed in this article that makes life seem too short. Get out there and be altruistic, rather than sitting at the computer typing up polemics. And yes, those of you that will point out the apparent irony in this comment, well done on being so observational. Did you ever consider that while I’m “blowing” my money on a nice trip to beautiful place, the very same people “working hard towards their future” are just look at pictures on the web of what I’m actually seeing with my own eyes, experiencing quite the proverbial jealousy they’re not there. All those unhappy office workers are not just a stereotype. Overworking is no virtue, either. More intelligence is a good thing, but what good is in current state of affairs where you’ll most likely be either ridiculed to death (because no one gets you, remember, they are less intelligent) or sued into oblivion if you are to disturb some large corp’ business model with some brilliant invention or innovation?

That’s why the article says that these technological advances bring a great amount of issues with them. You hear often how people would not want to exist for eternity or live on Earth for eternity. I think what most of us rational people want is at least the option or indefinite life/consciousness or perhaps living longer than a tortoise or just a thousand years.

That’s nothing. I get a large percent of our population would be bored out of their minds and ready to check out but the curious, intelligent, creative and scientific types would love a few hundred extra years. Every article like this brings out all the misconceptions of extended life. Then again, most people take everything as a given. Well I suppose that living forever would be a scary thought, if you really didn’t die for billions of years. We’d be around when our sun turns into a red giant and swallows up the Earth, we’d watch all of our history disappear.

We’d see the stars in the sky disappear, as they red shift out of view. Eventually we’d see the cold death of the universe, which would suck. I’d love to live way longer though. A few thousand years would be cool, but I’d prefer it if my family and friends were also around.

I imagine that it might get pretty lonely if I was the only one, and that anyone I cared about kept dying. I think the belief that 500 years ago change was slow is suspect. Back then you were much more subject to the whims of nature and politics. Your fortunes could and often did turn completely at a moments notice. Transhumanism is one more step in taking control of our lives.

The comment about one outcome of transhumanism resulting in stagnation is more believable to me than future shock scenarios. Aside from those two criticisms about the article, I really appreciate the topic being discussed as well as many of the points brought up. Personally I’m willing to hack my body and mind as much as I can before I die, especially any hack that can push that day as far off as possible. There’s nothing sacred about humanness as far as I’m concerned. I’m always surprised at the reactions I mean I wear glasses.

Have since turning about 45. For reading mainly.

Isn’t that a technical augmentation? What about hearing aids?, vitamins?.

Just because they don’t contain micro-circuits they are OK but other stuff is not? Too many people thinking about the Borg here. I’m all for whatever can correct things that break or wear out. Maybe better Lasik. Micro implants that allow me to shift to infrared?.

I’m still “me”. There is no difference between transhuman technology and an iphone. Could a smartphone help the mankind? It only helped apple, samsung etc. As long as there is “they” and “the rest of us”, there will not be a positive technological evolution. If we had the possibility to create our own smartphones and other things, transhumanism would be heaven on earth.

But, since the same devices will be made by future apple, samsung and sony, that means it will be nothing more than a new corporation-consumers relationshipor even worse. Your comment is the absolute theme of why monotheism and specifically the Tower of Babel is the most evil thing ever imagined by.drum roll.man. Your statement essentially gives ultimate power over your destiny to an unknown, more powerful and infinitely intelligent being of unknown origin and unknown intent. Yet transhumanism aims to give more power to us, the people here now. You want all progress to be destroyed so our “souls” can be gathered into our spirit dictator’s box for all eternity.truly frightening! Humans would perhaps punish Hitler for millennia, but your deity would torture them for eternity.how is that a good thing?

Punishing someone for eternity is the most monstrous thing in the universe! The only person who can truly help you is YOU. I like the natural approach personally and I engage in it heartily, but there are frustrating contemporary limits which H+ means can transcend mightily, if and when the technology is perfected. Let’s hope that’s in the very near future. The potential gains are too powerful to ignore: the prolongation of the ‘normal’ human lifespan; vastly augmented common human abilities and the acquisition of astonishing, phenomenal, entirely new ‘superhuman’ abilities; the assistance of incredibly effective super-genius AI in taking our experienced realities to extremes of positive limits.

It’s all much too important to allow craven fears to stop us from pushing our boundaries further and further away. We must seize total, barrier-breaking control of our evolution and become as godlike as possible. We can’t continue to be limited by our current inadequacies: our limited genes and DNA, our limited intellects, our limited human forms and limited potential in our current sub-optimized state. It is actually a major threat to our species’ continued existence in this universe. We must become much hardier, much more intelligent, much more capable and powerful. The incredible and desirable benefits in this quest for super-humanity far outweigh the imagined, feared risks. We must enjoy the freedoms and power and new vistas of opportunity on Earth and beyond the Milky Way which will be opened up with us becoming much more than what’s meant traditionally by the term ‘human’.

The POINT is while we are approaching some semblance of your H+ fantasies, we must have more of a vision of WHY we are continuing on our path of endless growth, endless “progress” etc. Our age is defined by our ever increasing material powers in the realms of science and technology and the stark contrast between this and continuing loss of perspective or interest in these basic questions. Our inadequacies are a huge part of what makes us “human.” If everything is easily augmented and overcome by technology, then anything you achieve is nothing more than the end result of upgrading your software and hardware. No sacrifice, no death, no meaning; what’s the point? The great thing about your viewpoint is that you’ll Darwin Award style wipe yourself out of existenceif you’re serious which I doubt. As others pointed out, when we’re much older and offered very real cures/life saving medicine to live longer, we’d be joining religious camps if we refused (at the time) modern medical care to just lay down and die. Like people today favoring faith healing and rejecting vaccines or blood transfusions, they are painted as child abusers or insane.

Even very religious friends, when faced with a choice, will fight to stay alive, in this life rather than just giving up, which is what such a decision would be. It’s not about peacefully dying vs *Dalek voice* “be-come-ing a Cyyyy Borg,” but using modern tech to keep us healthy longer, to preserve what makes us human by ending sudden and unexpected death or the loss of our senses. I simply wanted to make sure I understood entirely what someone “meant” when they described themselves as a “transhumanist filmmaker”. I understood the concept but what they were describing was not transhumianism. Either they were unclear on the concept or were attempting to keep more important details of their idea(s) to themselves, because what was described to me was in essence a minor deviation on a vampire movie, involving nothing of transhumanism.

Succinctly put, it seemed like a rather grisly concept to me. Perhaps put into context it would have made better sensethough I tend to suspect it would likely have not.

I think of some odd films in the context of transhumanism: “City of Lost Children” being one (a lot of Steam punk headgear and eye wear). It does, however, segue nicely with a comment made 3 months ago that makes about as much sense as an ugly old man kidnapping children for the purpose of stealing their dreams, because he has lost the capacity to dream (or feel). I find the comment by VirtualMark ridiculous: “no guarantee of anything after death.” Does this person imagine that by introducing tech devices we can guarantee a form of life after death that is tolerable or recognizable to the spirit that inhabited the body?

That through trickery we can extend not only life but the quality of life? As for the comment about “jealousy about the rich working late in their offices”, many of the rich purchased drugs to keep them working lots of late nights and a number were found dead Monday morning in their offices. Emergency Standby Power Systems Pdf File. Wealth acquired by hard work does not protect one from overwork or investing money unwisely. I believe in reincarnation, which is neither comforting nor devastating. It simply makes sense to me: keep returning until you get your head screwed on straight and you can opt off of the wheel of dharma, unless you choose to return for the good of humanity as a great spiritual teacher (a Bodhisattva). Otherwise, you unchain yourself and travel to a place no one can see — or choose to travel the universe and seek to find universe beyond universe. I’d certainly download my “mind” to a computer provided it was MY mind and not a copy (meaning I would still experience my own death etc).

I’d also take any life-increasing treatment. It would mean I could learn another career, or perhaps journey off to the stars. Instant learning would also be extremely welcome – after all we can now access a layman’s explanation for so many subjects or topics with a quick google. I’m not sure I’d want to become a creature of pure logic though, nor have my IQ massively increased without a way of dialling it back down when not needed, I find my mind, at my current IQ level, already rarely stops or allows for decent relaxation. Indeed I recall reading about a German man whose IQ was astonishingly high and he did not see it as a gift as he said he NEVER got peace – that sounds like hell. The point about the technologies only benefiting the rich – well with longevity, high IQ, health etc wealth would actually become less important and, as economics dictates, you make more money providing a product to billions at a low price than thousands of customers at a high price.

Transhumanism is a foolish joke. Our humanity involves more than just a brain-more and more research these days supports the notion that our consciousness is built out of a relationship BETWEEN the mind and the body. The idea of uploading yourself into a machine when we haven’t even begun to grasp what it means to be sentient, conscious beings is ludicrous. I see this movement as a wet dream of tech addicts, those unhappy in their own skin, and rich and powerful people who are so afraid of death they will latch onto a bullshit fantasy like this one. I see a world where the vast majority of the human population lives in a hellish, violent polluted wasteland and works essentially for free to support the tiny oasis of rich and powerful people who can afford to “augment” themselves and live forever, or at least not come down with tumors and various diseases by age 30 like the rest of us.

AND I see a scenario where the cultural and societal progress does “stagnate, suffocated by the accumulated ego of intellectuals and demagogues who just will not die” BUT most likely I see a situation where the upload TRAPS the “masters” in their machines, and the hoi polloi, while dependent on these beings in the machines that control everything, are also needed BY the “augmented”, since they are on the “outside” in their physical bodies, and are necessary to maintain all this machinery. And they eventually pull the plug on these foolish elites that uploaded themselves (which I dont believe will ever truly be possible) and start a new stone age •. Transhumanism is a foolish joke. Our humanity involves more than just a brain-more and more research these days supports the notion that our consciousness is built out of a relationship BETWEEN the mind and the body. The idea of uploading yourself into a machine when we haven’t even begun to grasp what it means to be sentient, conscious beings is ludicrous. I see this movement as a wet dream of tech addicts, those unhappy in their own skin, and rich and powerful people who are so afraid of death they will latch onto a bullshit fantasy like this one.

I see a world where the vast majority of the human population lives in a hellish, violent polluted wasteland and works essentially for free to support the tiny oasis of rich and powerful people who can afford to “augment” themselves and live forever, or at least not come down with tumors and various diseases by age 30 like the rest of us. AND I see a scenario where the cultural and societal progress does “stagnate, suffocated by the accumulated ego of intellectuals and demagogues who just will not die” BUT most likely I see a situation where the upload TRAPS the “masters” in their machines, and the hoi polloi, while dependent on these beings in the machines that control everything, are also needed BY the “augmented”, since they are on the “outside” in their physical bodies, and are necessary to maintain all this machinery. And they eventually pull the plug on these foolish elites that uploaded themselves (which I dont believe will ever truly be possible) and start a new stone age •. The change that people are afaid of is really just a form of absolutism and ethnocentrism. They see the world through their eyes, and through their experience. To change a behaviour is to deny all the work and effort that was put into the creation on thier system. The horse and buggy is a good example.

When the automobile was invented, people were slow to accept the change. They did not see it as a method to help thier lives, but instead as a threat to what they believe to be the correct way of living. In a strange way the article reassured me that all is normal.

My grandfather was excited by the electric incandescent light bulb and by the telephone, my father used to listen to ball games and Gun Smoke on the radio before we bought our first black and white television to watch Lassie and my first PC was a TRS-40 from Tandy Corp. Now my two year old grandson is playing games on a 7″ HP Slate tablet connected via wireless to a DSL connection to the Internet.

My ISP’s services are running as virtual hosts in a cloud on a VMware server and all of his accounting and WEB hosting is provided by a cloud service. Transhumanism will only be viable to the extent that it improves the quality of our inner lives. Our external lives have improved vastly beyond those of our ancestors. Many of us live with conveniences and comforts that the richest kings of the past did not possess. Yet our minds are often despairing, depressed, suicidal, enraged and miserable, or more commonly and prosaically restless, chattering and endlessly dissatisfied.

What good will being smarter or stronger or any other addition to our mental and physical qualities be if such remains the case? The power of brain technologies may allow us to access states of great peace, rest, and freedom such as only meditation masters and yogis currently experience. Then we will have found the key to the human future. I’m not living forever in this madhouse of a planet filled with fools and I’m not following them to another planet either. (If they even get this stuff to work.) If I need help due to medical issues, I’ll take it. However, I’ll pass on eternal life (which isn’t real anyway).

Everything and everyone in the universe is part of its cycle. When it goes, you go. Nature also has its cycles. Overcoming the forces of the universe AND nature? Wake up and accept your insignificance. The delusions of self-importance are hurting you more than it is helping. Humans are not supreme.

We never were and never will be. Time will crush us out of existence. Our empires and playthings eternally forgotten. You think technology will save the human race?

What delusional fools. How many of those Smartphones have died?

Microwave, printer or car kicked the bucket lately? You’ll experience all of the glitches and malfunctions that technology has for yourself. Andthen you’ll simply quit functioning altogether. Look how far you’ve gotten. Transhumanism is a freaking cult which will enslave everyone. Being the sheep that people are, they’ll think it’s all good while they have no free will of their own.

My mind belongs to me, my will belongs to me. I’m not merging myself to become mindless like all the rest of you. Shoot, most of society today is like a mindless cyborg.

Shells of what once were humans. I guarantee you that the government will be the first and ONLY ones to get the enhancements. Just like they’ll be the ONLY ones to build bases on Mars and such. More often than not, it’s all a ploy to sell more enslaving tech toys to the masses all so they can control you easier than ever. Money rules the world.

Take a look at what Google and Apple does. Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition Ps2 Cheat Codes. You should be appalled. (But I doubt it because “It’s Star Trek that’s come to life!”) Humans are hopeless. Utterly hopeless. Blind fools worshiping the future of mind control and inhumanism. I am primarily interested in technologies of the mind and brain as a means to accelerate the path to enlightenment, as pioneering Buddhist teacher Shinzen Young has speculated. I have OCD and panic disorder, and the lingering after-effects of a long struggle with drug addiction.

Meditation alone is extremely difficult for me – it’s hard for everyone, but with OCD it can be nearly impossible. I am disappointed at how almost every area of modern life has been profoundly altered by technological advancement except the mind, the area of greatest potential for very high levels of peace and tranquility. For instance, medicine is incomparably more effective than it was 100 years ago.

Yet most spiritual practitioners in the 21st Century are still using techniques developed at least that long ago and often centuries longer. I am excited by the prospects afforded by the unfolding science of mind and technologies such as tDCS, which seems to be improving every year, and the astonishing progress in neuroimaging.

We are just scratching the surface of an incredibly complex organ in the brain, but we know so much more than we did just 20 years ago (almost all of the high-quality studies on meditation and the brain have been carried out since then). According to what advanced meditation practitioners •. I used to support transhumanism, but I was blind then. Now I realize that we must accept death when it comes and that we have to try our hardest to be something in this life.

I don’t fear death itself, I just fear the idea of dying a meaningless death. To me, that is the only reason to fear death. If you do good things with this life, then even if there is a heaven or hell you should be fine. If there isn’t, then we simply won’t exist anymore. And that’s ok because we won’t even perceive it to be that way.

So instead of wishing for more time to live, we should just try living up to our full potential for once. Transhumanism is a lazy concept because people don’t want to work towards their potential. We don’t need devices to make us smarter. Albert Einstein is considered to be one of the smartest men to have ever lived, and no one has matched him today. I think that’s because people are getting increasingly more lazy. But I’m only 15, so I’m just an idiot right? His is evil don’t go with nature mostly with GOD the creator JESUS CRIST even if you belive in other religions this all things is evil only good if you bow for Davil so you are evil to.

Frist go and know what we are how GOD creat us make your research even if you don’t belive in GOD. You should know that if you say there is devil you butter believe there is GOD so you should worship only GOD THE HOLY TRINITY and you should know and belive JESUS born from ST.MEERY and save us from all evil. And I know that this all is going to work by the RFID chips in your hand or head because everybody has head which is the mark of the best (RFID chips ) then change you to hafe human hafe evil robot and control all your thoughts and feelings make you do whatever they want you to do. And follow you every were you go so don’t take the mark of the best RFID chips for what ever happened.