Sara Weaver tells us that Elon Musk
shows a dangerous penchant for transhumanism.
Musk told the World Government Summit in 2017 that as humanity’s daily dependence on technology increases, humans should simply merge with machines.
“I think one of the solutions that seems maybe the best is to add an AI layer,” Musk said in an interview in 2016, “Just as your cortex works symbiotically with your limbic system, your third digital layer could work symbiotically with you.”
On Twitter, Musk announced another method by which we could create “symbiosis with machines” — neural lace. Science Alert describes neural lace as, “a brain implant that can augment natural intelligence by hooking us up to computers.” Musk is, it appears, placing his actions behind his words, naming his son a string of letters and numbers (X Æ A-12) that’s more reminiscent of a “Star Wars”-style robot than a human child.
Musk believes we are likely a simulation in an advanced civilization’s high-tech video game, and his brain chip company Neuralink could start testing on humans within the year, according to Fortune.
Other than the occasional right-of-center opinion, Musk is a technology-obsessed billionaire with little sense of respect for the inherent dignity of humans as created in the image of God. At best, his philosophy is a decent method of managed defeat to the technological overlords bent on ushering in the era of transhumanism.
Eternal life is only worth pursuing if we have any idea what “life” really is. Is it a simulation or a divine miracle? Musk wants brain implants so we can live forever. After all, who doesn’t want to live forever?
But Musk never considers if humanity is more than a data set, and the question of life is not merely whether we can keep said data set “running.” There is a mystery to human life which should remain at the mercy of the Creator.
Read more here: https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/12/elon-musks-disturbing-dalliance-with-transhumanism/
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