SCIENCE RESURRECTS THE DEAD, TRANSHUMANISM

"We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. 

The purpose is physical control of the mind.

Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. 

The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. 

Man does not have the right to develop his own mind.

We must electronically control the brain. 

Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain."  
~ Dr. José Delgado, Yale University Medical School 
Congressional Record,
No. 26, Vol. 118 February 24, 1974 

Merriam-Webster: TRANSHUMANISM: transcending human limits :  superhuman.

OR, as defined elsewhere, "radical, self-directed human evolution whose goals are ending the aging process, gaining greater intelligence, ending human suffering—or at least ending unnecessary suffering—and conquering the stars."

~ above quoted from "Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and the Singularity", authors Sirius and Cornell.
[Both are devout transhumanists.]

IT IS SOMETHING EVERY GOVERNMENT THAT CAN AFFORD TO DO SO IS RACING TO ACCOMPLISH... CREATE "SUPERHUMANS" ... 

"BETTER, SMARTER, STRONGER, 

AND WITH REPLACEABLE PARTS". 

"DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER?"


National Geographic's documentary , over an hour long, BTW.

THIS IS SOMETHING I HAVE BEEN DEEPLY INTERESTED IN SINCE THE EARLY 1960s AND SO I HAVE MADE EXHAUSTIVE STUDIES INTO EACH DECADE'S ADVANCES.

A PASSING NEWS ARTICLE CAUGHT MY EYE RECENTLY...

26 NOVEMBER 2015

Humai, a Los Angeles-based tech company, predicts we could see human resurrection by 2045. 

Humai is researching how to cryogenically store a brain so that when bionics, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence have been fully developed, they can implant the brain into an engineered body, effectively resurrecting the person.
“We’ll first collect extensive data on our members for years prior to their death via various apps we’re developing. After death, we’ll freeze the brain. When the technology is fully developed we’ll implant the brain into an artificial body,” ‘Humai’ founder Josh Bocanegra explained, adding that the artificial body will be controlled by the person’s thoughts and brain waves, just the way prosthetics are controlled today. He believes that an artificial body can ‘contribute to the human experience’, making death easier to accept.

BY 2045?
JUST 30 YEARS FROM NOW?
WHAT WOULD BE CREATED?

NOT A HUMAN.

WHO WILL BE WATCHING OVER ANY 'STORED BRAINS' TO MAKE SURE NO ONE "ENHANCES" THEM IN SOME DIABOLICAL WAY, PERHAPS, OR SUBSTITUTES SOME OTHER BRAIN FOR A "PAYING CUSTOMER'S" BRAIN, OR LETS A BRAIN ROT ? 

WHAT THIS SUGGESTS, TO ME, IS THAT AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WILL "ARISE" WHICH HAS CHARACTERISTICS, PERHAPS, OF A DECEASED HUMAN BEING, BUT WILL NOT BE HUMAN.

TO CALL THIS "RESURRECTION" IS QUITE MISLEADING.

WHAT CAN ONE STORE ON A MEMORY STICK, IN ACTUALITY?
NOT HUMAN EMOTIONS, NOT THAT PART OF THE HUMAN MIND THAT DISTINGUISHES EACH OF US FROM ALL OTHERS.

NOT A HUMAN'S 'SPIRIT', A HUMAN'S DRIVE, OR EVEN HUMAN IDIOSYNCRASIES, THE LITTLE QUIRKS, WHATEVER ONE WISHES TO CALL THAT WHICH MAKES EACH OF US SO UNIQUE.
WON'T WHAT THEY ARE CALLING "RESURRECTION" BE IMPOSSIBLE TO BRING ABOUT, GIVEN THAT NO COMPUTER HAS BEEN IMAGINED THAT COMES CLOSE TO THE CAPABILITIES OF OUR BRAINS ALONE, THE SPEED WITH WHICH A HUMAN MIND FUNCTIONS?

WHAT THEN WILL THIS "RESURRECTION" BE?  

How might we "enhance" ourselves?
Add features of some wild animal, as the above clip suggests some might?

CREATE "BIONIC SOLDIERS", AS DARPA IS TRYING TO DO? 

OR JUST MAKE WORKERS STRONGER?

WHAT WILL THOSE "NEW BODIES" INTO WHICH OLD (AND MIGHT WE SAY, CLINICALLY DEAD?) BRAINS ARE PLACED BE LIKE?

The Rising of the Robot Discovery Channel Full Documentary 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=101BEWm3xVg

SURPRISED?
IT'S TRUE.

Presenting the latest in humanoid robotics - the Geminoid DK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSLe7xrP4jQ

Learning to react "like a human"...

"HUMAN" REACTIONS?
CONVINCING, YES?
THAT WAS 4 YEARS AGO.

MAYBE YOU'VE HEARD THE WORD "SINGULARITY" BATTED ABOUT WHEN SPEAKING OF THE SEVERAL POSSIBLE OUTCOMES OF TRANSHUMANISM?

Put more simply, it is the idea of uploading our minds to computers and replacing body parts with machines to make us smarter and fitter while we are alive. 

The first use of the term 'singularity' to refer to technological minds was by mathematician John von Neumann in the mid-1950s.  

He said: 'Ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.' 

The term was then used by science fiction writer Vernor Vinge who believes brain-computer interfaces are causes of the singularity.  

Google's director of engineering, Ray Kurzweil, previously said that in just over 30 years, humans will be able to upload their entire minds to computers and become digitally immortal - an event called singularity. This would be done while he we are still alive, unlike Humai's plans that involve resurrection.   

Elsewhere, Google Ventures' president Bill Maris believes that it will one day be possible for humans to live to 500 years old, and this will be helped by medical breakthroughs as well as a rise in biomechanics.
AS IF GOOGLE'S QUESTIONABLE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE NSA WASN'T ENOUGH, RIGHT? <wink>

BUT WHILE WE'RE MENTIONING GOOGLE... HAVE YOU READ...
"Apple and Google Know What You Want Before You Do"

Wall Street Journal  
3 August 2015

Apple Inc. and Google Inc. are racing to anticipate the needs of their users.

The technology giants, whose software runs nearly all of the world’s smartphones, are adding features to deliver information before users ask for it. Their moves suggest that smartphones will evolve into devices that dispense information unprompted.


The companies are tackling the technology differently, reflecting their own expertise and priorities. Apple’s Proactive Assistant, a feature of its forthcoming iOS 9 software, aims to learn how a user will behave from information stored on an iPhone. By contrast, Google Now combs data from a universe of online services and searches.

HOW MANY REALIZE THE TECHNOLOGY, THE IN-DEPTH STUDY, THE PRYING INTO OUR "ONLINE LIVES" THAT THIS REQUIRES?

AND YET, HERE WE ALL ARE ON A GOOGLE BLOG!

(ACTUALLY, I TRY TO HELP OUT THE BOYS AND GIRLS WHO GATHER OUR PRIVATE INFORMATION ALL THAT I CAN.   I FEEL SORRY FOR THEM...TAKING MONEY TO DO SUCH A THING TO FELLOW AMERICANS... POOR, PATHETIC, CURSED "JUDAS GOATS". )

SO, GATHERING THE INFORMATION FROM HUMANS IS ONE THING, CREATING ANYTHING THAT MIGHT REMOTELY HAVE ALL THE, SHALL WE SAY, "SUBTLE NUANCES" OF A HUMAN IS ANOTHER.

SURE, WE MAY PRODUCE GREAT ROBOTICS, BIONICS, BUT WHAT ABOUT A HUMAN CONSCIENCE? WILL WE "ENHANCE" OURSELVES TO THE POINT THAT WE BECOME LIKE THOSE "ELOI" SITTING IDLY BY WHILE A FELLOW HUMAN DROWNS IN THE OLD MOVIE, "THE TIME MACHINE"?

LET'S FACE IT, HUMANS HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR WAYS TO ESCAPE THEIR "EXPIRATION DATES" SINCE THE FIRST HUMAN DIED.

CAN WE DO THAT?
SHOULD WE DO THAT?
WHAT WILL THAT LEAD TO?  

WILL ALL CLASSES OF PEOPLE BE GIVEN "ETERNAL LIFE", OR JUST A FEW PEOPLE WHO CAN AFFORD IT, SHOULD SUCH A THING BE DEVELOPED?  

WILL SUCH 'ENHANCEMENTS', OR EVEN LIFE-SAVING TECHNOLOGIES, "REPLACING WORN-OUT PARTS", BE HELD OUT LIKE A CARROT TO THE MASSES, CREATING CONTROL OF THE MASSES BY THOSE WHO CONTROL THE TECHNOLOGY?

HOW DO WE POSSIBLY DEFINE "DEAD" OR "ALIVE" IN SOME "NEW" WAY? 

IT SEEMS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT WE DEFINE THOSE TWO WORDS NOW, TODAY, FOR ALL IN THE FUTURE , BEFORE WE GET CLONED OR STORED ON A MEMORY STICK SOMEWHERE. 

WITHOUT A LINE DRAWN NOW, WHAT MIGHT TRANSPIRE?
THE DARK SIDE OF 'HUMANISM/TRANSHUMANISM"Transhumanism was founded in the 1950s by top eugenicist Julian Huxley and the Rockefeller Foundation, just a new "brand name" for the pseudoscience of Eugenics. 

Its obsession for culling off the 'genetically inferior', while at the same time striving to promote dominance for the 'superior'  seemed born of Hitler's attempt to do the same thing. 

IN REALITY, HITLER HAD STUDIED THE EUGENICS MOVEMENTS OF AMERICA, FRANCE, AND GREAT BRITAIN.

HE OBTAINED THE IDEA OF GAS CHAMBERS FROM THE REPORTS OF A CARNEGIE FOUNDATION-FUNDED STUDY.

FROM THE HISTORY NEWS NETWORK: 

"Eighteen solutions were explored in a Carnegie-supported 1911 "Preliminary Report of the Committee of the Eugenic Section of the American Breeder's Association to Study and to Report on the Best Practical Means for Cutting Off the Defective Germ-Plasm in the Human Population." Point eight was euthanasia.

The most commonly suggested method of eugenicide in America was a "lethal chamber" or public locally operated gas chambers."

Elements of the philosophy were enshrined as national policy by forced sterilization and segregation laws, as well as marriage restrictions, enacted in twenty-seven states. 

In 1909, California became the third state to adopt such laws. 

Ultimately, eugenics practitioners coercively sterilized some 60,000 Americans, barred the marriage of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in "colonies," and persecuted untold numbers in ways we are just learning. 

Before World War II, nearly half of coercive sterilizations were done in California, and even after the war, the state accounted for a third of all such surgeries.Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had it not been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies, specifically the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune. 

They were in league with some of America's most respected scientists hailing from such prestigious universities as Stanford, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. 

These academicians espoused race theory and race science, and then faked and twisted data to serve eugenics' racist aims.   

Stanford president David Starr Jordan originated the notion of "race and blood" in his 1902 racial epistle "Blood of a Nation," in which the university scholar declared that human qualities and conditions such as talent and poverty were passed through the blood.       
( Learn more at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1796#sthash.XHow9ZE5.dpuf

"What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the population of incompetent cultures. 

But we do need to think realistically in terms of the 'phasing out' of such peoples. Evolutionary progress means the extinction of the less competent. 

Survival of the fittest, extinction of the unfit. This is the way to a better world."   

~ Prof. Richard Lynn (2004), 
"A Review of 'A New Morality from Science: Beyondism'", 
Irish Journal of Psychology, 2.


A LITTLE-KNOWN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IS A TRANSHUMANIST...
Zoltan Istvan.

HIS FULL NAME IS ZOLTAN ISTVAN GYURKO.  

BORN IN THE U.S., HE APPEARS TO BE OF HUNGARIAN DESCENT , IS 42 YEARS OLD, IS A JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR, LIVES WITH HIS WIFE , WHO IS A PHYSICIAN, AND DAUGHTERS IN MILL VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, AND LISTS HIMSELF AS AN ATHEIST.

NOWHERE DID I FIND WHY HE DROPPED THE FAMILY NAME, GYURKO.
BELOW IS A BRIEF SUMMARY OF HOW HE SEES TRANSHUMANISM FROM AN ARTICLE HE WROTE IN THE HUFFINGTON POST...

"Transhumanist goals are broad and varied, but mostly they revolve around human beings using science and technology to radically improve and enhance themselves, their lives, and society. 
Transhumanists often concentrate on stopping or reversing aging--we are sometimes called life-extensionists or longevity advocates. 

Many transhumanists also focus on robotics, bionics, artificial intelligence, biohacking, and other similar fields of study. 

Transhumanists are often, but not always, nonreligious. 

They find meaning in their own lives and possibilities, without a divine creator. 

The philosophies of transhumanism make it possible that in the future--using extreme science and technology--one may become a so-called divine creator if they wanted.

Ask yourself how you can best dedicate yourself to a specific cause of transhumanism and its various fields: aging research, cyborgology, stem cell science, suspended animation, singularitarianism, genetic engineering, machine intelligence, or the dozens of other areas. 
Then do it. "
IN THE CASE OF TRANSHUMANISM, WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF "IT"?
JUST DO... WHAT?

CREATE A SOCIETY SUCH AS THE ELOI OF VERNE'S 'TIME MACHINE'?

CREATE A SOCIETY WHERE THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD 'ENHANCEMENTS' AND LONGEVITY PROGRAMS RULE OVER THOSE WHO CAN'T?
I THINK I'LL PASS ON THAT.