65 Quotes About Transhumanism

Even a most detailed temporary snapshot of our brains will not magically make us alive again when it is run as a software version on a computer that operates an artificial robot body.

If we really were only a hallucinating user illusion, a conscious mind that has nothing to say and can only observe the machinations of the subconscious mind, both supposedly being the creations of the brain, why would we want to transfer the brain's illusions anyway?

I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future

It's amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.

Non-reductive physicalism is the very widespread philosophical view that mind and consciousness cannot be reduced to matter but are still caused by matter; essentially it is Machine Man believing in magic without admitting it.

The only way to deal with technology is with another technology. Man knows more about his dangerous tendencies than he did a hundred years ago, and in the next hundred years, his knowledge will be even more advanced. Then he will make use of it.

The history of Man "playing God" is one of deepest subjugation and destruction. We proclaim the good but are unable to break from that which is evil; we are incapable of resisting the allure to become a god made in our fallen image.

You can't hack your destiny, brute force...you need a back door, a side channel into Life.

Cynicism is merely sloth, an excuse not to try.