Building TransHuman Immortals

AE Reiff

The Transgenic Immortal It's probably a designated strategy that transmortals put up Ray Kurzweil to be their spokesman so they will not be taken seriously. When PBS last showed him on Charlie Rose he spoke of singularity as though it were an expression of the information age and that the "democratizing" technologies of cell phones and Facebook would prevent it being used for tyranny because of "the wisdom of crowds." But singularity is of the HYBRID AGE where human organs are grown in pigs and dinosaurs are reconstituted from 80 million year old DNA stored in their bones. GRIN technology, considered a fantasy to the culture, is a serious effort of government and business not only to remake dinosaurs but to pair all kinds of human and animal genes for human enhancement as well as parading nanobots in Kurzweil's brain. Hybrid Age It is in the interest of transmortals that we be lulled to sleep while they achieve singularity, all in a week it is said, trillions and trillions of brain cells coming on line in an instant. As with the genetic engineering of the singing mouse there will be no democracy of choice. This is called "the moral tragedy of not building god," (Hugo de Garis. BBC Horizon, HumanV2.0--47.1247:26). Hugo de Garis, Ray Kurzweil: Human 2.0 gives the most salient evidence of discarnate entity, that being that "the brain did not need the body anymore." [BBC. 27:52-28:10] Everyone thinks it cute when they inject human brain cells and DNA into the mice at Stanford until the transgenic myth is exploded that "human cells had no apparent impact on the animals' behavior." That was six years ago, as was the beginning awareness of prion contamination which began encephalopathies in mad cow. While Hugo de Garis is building this brain, his conscience makes him warn us we will come to a bad end (The Artilect War). If the

Artilect wars however they come to pass will cement an unprecedented unity of the cultures of humans. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists of every continent unite to save the earth for the one species that has probable cause not to have it saved since its scientists have continually invited outsiders, the Good People Aliens., to take it over anyway. Gary Schwartz of ASU wants to take his Sophia Project into dialogue with the non human deceased or any discarnate beings he can find, even if it means L. Ron Hubbard channeling Aleister Crowley right out of the plutonian labs of C. S. Lewis' Devine. [Apologies for juxtaposing the content neutral standard with these poles.] C. S. Lewis foresaw all this fictionally in That Hideous Strength with its detached head. The names are not the same, but the permutation of business and academe with mad scientists such as

the JASONS of the Pentagon, who game planned Vietnam in the Pentagon papers, will have perpetuated synthetic telekinesis, super soldiers merging with animals to gain new modes of perception, remote access brain waves in new designer children. As the Americans race the Chinese to preserve humanity by altering it, Hugo de Garis is hard at work in Xiamen and Nick Bostrom at Oxford. Notice their facial similarity? Perfectionists think they came to the wrong planet. Evolution was fine until they superseded it themselves. God was fine until superseded by the world brain. This is not the World Brain of H. G. Wells that was as much ballyhooed as precursor of the Internet as C. S. Lewis' Hideous Strength and the Abolition of Man are of the transmortal. H. G. Wells book of that title should alert us to the prophetic nature of some writers, Wells of the Internet and C. S. Lewis of the Transmortal, better precursors of their kind than Teilhard de Chardin in The Future of Man (1955). It is best that transhumans stay away from literature as much as possible, after all they are going to make new myths. The archetypes of literature, Beowulf crushing Grendel, ripping off his arm, are enemies of the new immortal as much as Jung's collective unconsciousness. How are transgenics to deal with the unconscious? Well by not bringing it up, anymore than they bring up God while this physical analogue of swellings of all sorts, obesities called The Invisible Giants that feed their cows and chickens, or readers and thinkers of the day, with artificial feed much as we do our herds, fill the land. If you're a transgenic you stay away from literature, after all it is of earth, its culture, even Frankenstein. We don't need that!

A fine day in the life of the transmortal might go like this. Plug into SkyNet to see if they're up to us as yet. The Sarah Connor Chronicles come true, but with an overwhelming difference, that being it is for real, but the movies do not make us safe. Whether artificial intelligence has a malevolent wink to its trillion atoms is under discussion here. If it does things just went from bad to worse. Continent wide wifi bubbles administered with extra cranial neural caps to ferret out even "silent talk" through EEGs, even of intended speech, already extend their "tele-presence" through mobile BCI devices into a Cognitive Threat Operative Systems. Do not fear, symposia like this report everywhere on your safety. It isn't just plant, animal and human life to be altered, but planets as well, terra-forming comets, atmospheric corrections to Mars. Do new resistances appear when the challenge of Earth life is "solved?" The transhuman "solution" itself sets up a class structure that makes the British look innocent. It makes human obsolete, sets an interface to divide matter and energy, denigrating

matter. Pretend that the Philosopher King has come, and we know what that means for poetry. Poetry has no place in The Republic nor do exceptions in engineered reality. Tell this to mice who have endured our suffering with us, mammals systemically tortured into the reality that subjugates everything for human experiment. If the human is to do to the human what it has done to the animal world in the name of science and research, that itself is acknowledgment that it is nonhuman. No longer human, what does that mean? It means changes introduced into the human phenotype passed on to children in generations of a different identity. Stranger in a Strange Land indeed, this evolution was argued from the start of Sci Fi in Superman, Batman. Junctures of the human with alien or animal were long ago introduced into imaginative myth. Myth no more, Kakfa's Josephine the Mouse Singer, turned to a play by McClure, burgeons reality, but the mouse injected with human brain cells is no longer a mouse. The charm of Kafka's story is the charm of the mouse spirit, sullied now with the human genome. Laws to protect native species are not enforced. Mark the rhetorical nature of the debate that scientists want on animals with human genes. What they want is funding and permission from authorities to create a mouse that can speak, a monkey with Downs Syndrome, dogs with human hands or feet. Human makeover of the world in The Hybrid Age is more than genocide, it is an unbelieved destruction of all life. Not that it isn't couched in the coziest of terms of little robots and promises of perfect health and every utopian outcome. Not that it isn't amazingly attractive to upscale tech grads who see it as a means of advancing toward both the identity they lack in their amorphous beings as much as the preceding generation sought to be financial counselors and mortgage brokers. These are the mortgage brokers of the new human bubble. The Hybrid Age event is a true UBU reality, entertaining to watch while the forces of manipulation pull

the wool over the eyes of newbies to the earth event, viz., college kids, who while they think they are important for being on the cutting edge, are on the cutting board and while they think they will be treated like this are instead going to be treated like this. Severed Head

So if you think youd like to be part dog or plant, said this way so the Hybrids can easily dismiss it, think first how much artificial intelligence needs you once it has exceeded your capacity by the trillion trillion. These blindnesses come from the dead

consciousness that pretends that to be human is something beside its culture. As if to be anything is to be what it is not. Watching this documentary of the arrested development of Terence McKenna who will always be a youth, he achieved this by dying at 54, his indefinite mind expansions are as hypnotic as a tranquilizer, as unsettling as a neurosis, contacting consciousness outside the human, as they say they do at the ASU Sophia Project. That is why the predominant metaphor of this movement of the hybrid age is that of the Severed Head, a disconnect, urged on by greed, innovation. But more, at least according to their own sources. Superman, Batman, The Green Hornet indicate how long these things have been aborning and it is obvious that the idea begins in the Pop Mind long before the technology exists. This either is explained by the subconscious imagination or the conscious manipulation of the human by forces already greater than it than it will be greater than itself in Singularity, 2045. If 2045, or 2025, or 2012 is "the date," or today, that is another deception, since it must already exist for the date to occur. A therefore A, the first law of identity as in Descartes' I think therefore I am, already assumes the I before the proposition enunciates itself, but in this case add another "precursor," that before I think I am, I remember that I think. By this we mean to say that Singularity already exists in the most profound manner since it remembers itself in order to be. So what kind of being can create over centuries this consciousness for gene alteration before such is dreamt? Unfortunately for the transgenic, who wants to view the past as superseded in himself, the issues of human as creator are fraught with past literatures and myth. It is impossible to find any that do not impact the problem the transgenic has in interpreting the past to suit the new prerogative. Right from the start it should be obvious that the transhuman would not credit the existence of God, saying this idea is superseded now as much as Darwin and evolution. But as shown in Genesis, God would not be eager for a

competitor in the creation of species. A number of parties got in trouble there that way. The transgenic will like to interpret myths of giants, monsters, aerial phenomena as precursors of his own chimeras. Polyphemus, Neptune, angels...there is room here for the transhuman take on the old, if it mattered, but it doesn't matter since it is shortly to be oerflown. There really will be dinosaurs revived with tatters of DNA and if dinosaurs whos to say that Yeats himself will not be raised, for transmortals think big, a selective resurrection of important personages, Max Planck, etc? Tom Gilbert really begs the question that the agenda of the Transhuman is about his grandmother. An expert in ancient DNA at Copenhagen University who with Schuster and Webb pioneered the harvesting of mammoth DNA from hair, [he] admits that as a

student of mammoths, he'd be the first to go see one trundle across a paddock"if you can do a mammoth, you can do anything else that's dead, including your grandmother. But in a world in global warming and with limited resources for research, do you really want to bring back your dead grandmother?" National Geographic, May 2009). Anything brought back by a hair or bone is why the grave of Gilgamesh was sequestered and why the Smithsonian does the same with the excavated giants in its collection. This sounds totally like the search for Merlins grave in That Hideous Strength. What it really impacts is King Ramses and whoever else the transhumanist would return from the dead with deep agenda, who, unlike your grandmother, would like another shot. Maybe they would like global warming. Maybe the Greenhouse Effect would make them feel at home. The Defense Advance Research Projects Agency of the U.S. (DARPA) has all manner of cooperative efforts toward these ends, mainly to construct an enhanced, perhaps hybrid, super soldier, because it feels it must beat the Chinese and the Russians. Human altruism is in short supply. There are as many links to this as you like. The one cited is 4 years old. Think you the SEALS? If this sounds ridiculously like the satire of Swift to the human, a Gulliver according to its kind, to the organic machine it will be dead serious when it comes online to the 10 to the 26 trillion trillion brain cells. Everything made new by Singular fiat, except that these are old mammoths and warriors dug from the hills of Palestine. The hybrids however will be new. There will be no discussion if the transhuman assumptions hold and things are as they say they are or as the trillion trillion make them. To them it is impossible to be overridden. To them it is as impossible as the taunt that Isaiah gives against Babylon (14). This is called"the moral tragedy of not building god," (Hugo de Garis. BBC Horizon, HumanV2.0--47.12-47:26) It should be obvious why the

Transgenic does not sanction God, after all, these are the New Rules. If you think the Hybrid Age is the reverse imitation of Genesis, the destruction not the creation of species, and that it is bad, or that the bringing back from the dead of Ramses, Yeats and the wooly Mammoth is a mockery of the resurrection, that just shows how prejudiced you are. Many of a religious bent are concerned not to take "the mark of the beast," always emphasizing the mark and never the beast. But in the age of the hybrid the beast may arrive in the form of a retrofitted serum injected in the guise of a vaccine combining animal and human DNA to cure some engineered disease. Or, in the words of Verner Vinge in 1993! "within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended." (Abstract, The Coming Technological Singularity). Two-thirds of those thirty years are gone! Listen to all the podcasts from ASU Templeton school of Transhumanism here while you wait. Do not consider Melhman's logic more than rhetoric. Selective breeding, mutation is always within a species. Human and animal together, never.

Other reading: Transhumanism: Genetic Manipulation Tom Horn, Steve Quayle. Five hours worth taking seriously if only because transhumans do not brook opposition. They were able to burn down one of their opponents when name calling didn't work, On Wrestling With A Pig, The Concept of Existential Risk. Nick Bostrom. Oxford, 2011. Posits every possible ER except singularity! which he did in 2004. Mark Studdock was at Oxford in That Hideous Strength: A Fairy Tale for Grownups Leon Kass. The Wisdom of Repugnance. Also, Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity. 2002.
Max Mehlman, Transhumanism and the Future of Democracy, ASU April 2009 Transhuman ASU Podcasts Endowed by Their [Human!] Creator?: The Future of Constitutional Personhood The $100 Genome: Implications for the Department of Defense (JASONs) Protecting the Endangered Human Mice with human brains *A Mouse that can speak The Transhuman organ James J. Hughes. (Trans)humanism & Biopolitics Transhuman Transformation Humanism and Transhumanism C. S. Lewis as Philosopher Transhumanism's SolipsisticUtopianism

Note: This primer, published on Scribd, emerged from work at the Human Botany Review and other sites where these links and others are also live.
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