- What about prosthetic limbs for amputees?
- Kidney dialysis for those with kidney failure?
- Pacemakers for those with heart issues?
- What about computers, microwaves and cell phones. They are all extensions of us and tools we use to enhance our abilities?
- Or medicines? Antibiotics? others?
That's the problem with categorically condemning Transhumanism.
I have to believe that God would approve of all of the above, and probably inspired individuals to bring us many of those enhancements.
Now if you get into genetic modification, even then you will have a divide. Gene therapy to correct a genetic defect, vs gene therapy to engineer a stronger, smarter human.
Same things with chip implants. We have non-intrusive brain wave detectors that can help disabled people communicate. Think Steven Hawkings.
But Neuralink goes a step further, not only promising to help the disabled, but potentially enhancing man.
I don't know where to draw the line, but clearly all advancements are not evil. So which ones are and which ones are not? And how to tell the difference before the evil manifests?
Oh and only having read the first and last paragraphs. Maybe the author hates himself, but I don't hate me or the author. And maybe people struggle more due to technology both with feelings of inferiority and keeping up with the Jones on social media. But it's the same human emotions since the start of time. No matter if your in a dirt poor village, or the King's court, or the techno wonderland of the 21st century.
Maybe I'll ask ChatGPT to read and comment on the article and try not to barf.
