Proving God’s existence on the basis of reason and empiricism was very popular only a few centuries ago. Were not these pieces of theology religious?
Dressing up bad arguments with the clothes of science and reason doesn’t make them any less bad. What matters is the quality of the arguments. And if the arguments for transhumanism are good, it hardly would seem to matter if the conclusions bear superficial similarity to some religious claims. Again, what matters is the quality of the arguments. I’d love to see critics of transhumanism engage with the actual arguments put forward for transhumanist positions, but so far what they’re doing looks more like pointing and laughing than engaging in a meaningful discussion. I’m not asking them to become transhumanists; I’m asking them to stop pointing and laughing. Pointing and laughing is a heuristic that helps you find whichever positions are currently trendy, but there are lots of positions that at one time weren’t especially trendy and are now much trendier (atheism being one).
They would certainly count as magic.
Exactly… “seems magic” is a bad heuristic for figuring out what’s true or possible.
Dressing up bad arguments with the clothes of science and reason doesn’t make them any less bad. What matters is the quality of the arguments. And if the arguments for transhumanism are good, it hardly would seem to matter if the conclusions bear superficial similarity to some religious claims. Again, what matters is the quality of the arguments. I’d love to see critics of transhumanism engage with the actual arguments put forward for transhumanist positions, but so far what they’re doing looks more like pointing and laughing than engaging in a meaningful discussion. I’m not asking them to become transhumanists; I’m asking them to stop pointing and laughing. Pointing and laughing is a heuristic that helps you find whichever positions are currently trendy, but there are lots of positions that at one time weren’t especially trendy and are now much trendier (atheism being one).
Exactly… “seems magic” is a bad heuristic for figuring out what’s true or possible.