Henry's Zoo

MaggieThe transhumanist ideal that is a little bit religious in many ways.

Its ideal is to escape embodiment, right?

Like all the rhetoric around, well, not just living in the cloud,

but not caring as much about your body

or it being a burden or weight.

You have to upkeep it.

It's talked about as this inconvenient thing.

It doesn't allow you to just like fly through cyberspace, right?

This is like the VR dream of everyone wanting

to just put on headsets and not have to deal with that physicality.

That's funny. I hadn't ever thought of the contrast between those two.

And I wonder if then transhumanism is some sort of reaction

to maybe some of the more traditional religious beliefs.

HenryActually, even in revelation, when Christ comes back,

we talk about this idea of new heavens and new earth.

And we will all have new bodies.

And so whatever that means,

there is a belief that we will still have a body,

we're not just a spirit, right.