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Monday, February 21, 2011

I, Human.



Robotics, nanobots, and any other form of advance technology, perchance, would be the ultimate issue for now in the future.  Yet, “it” holds many promises for our future, and could make our everyday life safer, faster, and easier. Even so, as what I saw in movies, robots can cause serious damages and troubles. And what I feared the most is when the time came they will replace us, enslave us, or worst destroy us, us humans.
Well, I guess “I, Robot”, “Bicentennial Man”, “A.I.”, “Surrogates” and many other Sci-fi movies won’t be just in movies anymore, and sci-fi isn’t just sci-fi anymore. In fact, it even made clearer when I found something fascinating regarding robots on Time Magazine.  click 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal 
Raymond Kurzweil, a consistent inventor, futurist, and the author of the book The Age of Intelligent Machines, and The Singularity Is Near, believes that we’re approaching a moment when computers will become intelligent, and not just intelligent but more intelligent than humans. When that happens, humanity---our bodies, our minds, our civilization---will be completely and irreversibly transformed. He believes that this moment is not only inevitable but imminent. According to his calculations, the end of human civilization as we know it is about 35 years away. Probably, he could be the leading promoter of transhumanism.
Out of that strong hypothesis of his, he’s now actually working on that idea. In fact, he’s being persistent as an engineer and inventor; he founded and sold his first software company, went on to build the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, and made innovations in a range of technical fields , including music synthesizers and speech recognition.
Actually, he’s also working on his Humanity’s cyborganic destiny since 1980. He needed ways to measure and track the pace of technologies progress, and for that he also wanted to make sure when he released his, the timing is right. “Even at that time, technology was moving quickly enough that the world was going to be different by the time you finished a project,” he says on Time Magazine.
He looked even further afield at trends in biotech and beyond – the falling cost of sequencing DNA and of wireless data service and the rising numbers of internet hosts and nanotechnology patents. He kept finding the same thing: exponentially accelerating progress. “It’s really amazing how smooth these trajectories are,” he says. “Through thick and thin, war and peace, boom times and recessions.”
As a futurist, Kurzweil foreseen that we will successfully reverse-engineer the human brain by the mid-2020s. By the end of that decade, computers will be capable of human-level intelligence. Creepy. At 2045---he estimates, given the vast increases in computing power and the vast reductions of the cost of same, the quantity of artificial intelligence created will be about a billion times the sum of all the human intelligence that exist today!
And by the way, Kurzweil is a cofounder of Singularity University, by which Google is founded as sponsor. Singularity is derived from a British mathematician named I.J. Good’s idea called “intelligence explosion”…as he ascribe as:
Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man, however, clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an “intelligence explosion,” and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus, the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.
Now, the singularity isn’t just an idea, anymore. Since it attracts people, and those people feel bond with one another. Together they form a movement, a subculture; which Kurzweil calls it a community. Once you decide to take the Singularity seriously, you will find that you became part of a small but intense and globally distributed hive of like-minded thinkers known as Singularitarians.
Now, imagine this people join forces together to create the “beastly” kind of technology that one day emerge in our planet…Imagine if we will coincide with these robots - for us to become cyborgs. In some point, they could be helpful by means of treating the effects of old age and prolong our life spans. Or like the movie Surrogates we will scan our consciousness into computers and live inside them as software, forever, virtually. Or maybe the computers will take over humanity and extirpate us! Well, whatever the ending is ----to sum it up---singularity, transhumanism, it’s all the same, they’re all made to ruin. I guess...XD

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

a Twist for transhumanism

Recently, I featured an article that spieled about Transhumanism, now, surfing across the internet---with a prickling sensation of amusement, I was alarmed to the articles that have been newsflashed like everywhere across the web.

FoxNews.com
One of those was from FoxNews.com. It has been reported that the Spanish researchers want to tag embryos with bar codes. Researchers from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Spain have just finished testing a method for imprinting microscopic bar codes on mouse embryos---a procedure which they wished to test soon on humans. Read more: click

Look out, your medicine is watching you
Another one was from Reuters.com. Novartis AG plans to seek regulatory approval within 18 months for a pioneering tablet containing an embedded microchip, bringing the concept of “smart-pill” technology a step closer. "We are taking forward this transplant drug with a chip and we hope within the next 18 months to have something that we will be able to submit to the regulators, at least in Europe," Mundel told the Reuters Health Summit in New York.

The biotech start-up's ingestible chips are activated by stomach acid and send information to a small patch worn on the patient's skin, which can transmit data to a Smartphone or send it over the Internet to a doctor. Longer-term, he hopes to expand the "smart pill" concept to other types of medicine and use the wealth of biometric information the Proteus chip can collect.

nanobot
Next one is the dominating Nanobot which is believed to be the next generation of nanomachines---it is predicted in the future that we will have nanobots injected into our bodies.

So, what exactly Nanobots are?
Nanobots are incredibly tiny robots, down at a microscopic scale. The name comes from a combination of the nanometer, the scale the devices are built at, and robot.

The theoretical uses of nanobots are virtually endless, as their size would allow them to essentially rebuild matter. In this sense, properly programmed nanobots would be able to take raw materials and build them into anything, from proteins to foods to tiny microprocessors.

Advanced Nanobots will be able to sense and adapt to environmental stimuli such as heat, light, sounds, surface textures, and chemicals; perform complex calculations; move, communicate and work together; conduct molecular assembly; and to some extent, repair or even replicate themselves.

However, the most famous doomsday scenario given when discussing nanobots is the so-called grey goo situation. This is a theoretical situation where a swarm of nanobots gets out of control or is plague with a computer virus, and begins deconstructing all matter, resulting in everything on the planet eventually being turned into a shapeless goo.

Despite from that dreadful grey goo caused by nanobots, I admit that having those injected in your body sounds absolutely perfect, in fact, it is perfect relating to an optimum level of living.

In the other hand, I understand how sciences continue to dig an out of this world way of living. But possibly-----or could be this whole idea is a stepping stone of bringing up to reality the so-called Transhumanism- a movement that claims to support the use of all forms of technology to improve human beings. It is a highly organized and well financed movement that is extremely focused on subverting and replacing every aspect of what we are as human beings – including our physical biology, the individuality of our minds and purposes of our lives – and the replacement of all existing religious and spiritual beliefs with a new religion of their own---which we all know is Satanism.

Be reminded that all of these were being prophesized in the Bible...


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Transhumanism: A Change for Good?

Monday, December 6, 2010

Transhumanism: A Change for Good?


We may blinded by the world’s pleasure but we’re not blind enough not to see that what was prophesized in the bible is happening slowly but surely.


And as Jesus Christ’s second coming is getting closer-----and so the work of evil, too, is getting worse! (Revelation 12:12 …for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”)

In addition, the development of technology has something to do in the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Such as molecular manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and etc. The acceleration and magnitude in development of these powerful technologies will dwarf the Industrial Revolution in size and scale.

Foreseeing such change, the world should note the various social philosophies and political movements which emerged during the Industrial Revolution. Darwinism, Marxism, Communism, Fascism, and eugenics all emerged within a few short decades.

But what was really alarming is the Transhumanist Agenda…


THE ANATOMY


The Transhumanist Agenda



Transhumanism is the name of a movement that claims to support the use of all forms of technology to improve human beings. It is far more than just a bunch of harmless and misguides techie nerds, dreaming of sci-fi movies and making robots.
It is a highly organized and well financed movement that is extremely focused on subverting and replacing every aspect of what we are as human beings – including our physical biology, the individuality of our minds and purposes of our lives – and the replacement of all existing religious and spiritual beliefs with a new religion of their own – which is actually not new at all.

The Elitist Creators of Transhumanism and Eugenics
“The term ‘Transhumanism‘ was coined by biologist Julian Huxley in 1957, who defined it as “man remaining man, but trans­cending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature.”
Julian Huxley was the brother of Aldous Huxley, who you may know the author of the very famous book, “Brave New World”, which is a vision of the future that most people view as “The New World Order” - a depressing future police-state world in which a one world government uses technology, such as surveillance cameras, psychological warfare (propaganda) and brutal military/police forces to control everyone and everything in this dystopian, fictional world.

The founders of Transhumanism, were highly educated and wealthy individuals of primarily British and European descent. These individuals were what we would call people of the elite (Illuminati), ruling class of society, and their views were absolutely elitist, if not outright totalitarian and fascist in nature.


EUGENICs

Eugenics is the study and practice of selective breeding applied to humans, with the aim of improving the species. In a historical and broader sense, Eugenics can also be a study of “improving human genetic qualities”. Advocates of Eugenics sought to counter what they regarded as dysgenic dynamics within the human gene pool. Specifically, in regard to the continuation of congenital disorders and factors impacting overall societal intelligence relating to the heritability of IQ

Eugenics was widely popular in the early decades of the 20th century, but has largely fallen into disrepute after having become associated with Nazi Germany. Since the postwar period, both the public and the scientific communities have associated Eugenics with Nazi abuses, such as enforced racial hygiene, human experimentation, and the extermination of “undesirable” population groups.

However, developments in genetic, genomic, and reproductive technologies at the end of the 20th century have raised many new questions and concerns about what exactly constitutes the meaning of Eugenics and what its ethical and moral status is in the modern era.”


The modern mutation of Transhumanism claims to only support “voluntary eugenics”, which sounds much more benevolent than mandatory sterilization and euthanasia of undesirable humans, doesn’t it? But. if you have any sense at all, you will probably realize that this ethnic cleansing of the gene pool (“improving the species” and “improving human genetic qualities”) simply cannot and will not ever happen if it is voluntary.


We should all understand that ideas such as “voluntary eugenics” will not be voluntary anymore, if and when the people who believe in these radical ideas get political and financial power. In fact, they already do have substantial wealth and power, and are working very hard to impose this Transhumanist agenda on our world – whether we like it or not!

The Principles and Concepts of Transhumanism

Transhumanists believe they are working toward a new and improved existence, leaving everything we have known in the dust bin of history, welcoming a new “Golden Age” of superbeings. They want to become an entirely new species, transcending what we are as humans, using radically advanced technology to achieve their goals. Let’s look at just a few of the primary concepts and goals of Transhumanism.


The Hive Mind


One of the primary concepts of the Transhumanist agenda is “The Hive Mind”.

  • Hive Mind : A type of collective consciousness where individuality is stifled; a state of conformity; also written hivemind”.
  •  “A group of people who give the false impression of being a hivemind (1), eg. by mindlessly following orders.” 

One of the early Transhumanist elites, along with Julian Huxley, was Sir Charles Galton Darwin, the grandson of Charles Darwin, who founded the theory of evolution.

So, anyway, here is one of Charles Galton Darwin’s quotes relating to the Hive Mind:

“There might be a drug, which, without other harmful effects, removed the urgency of sexual desire, and so, reproduced in humanity the status of workers in a beehive.”

As said previously, the founders of Transhumanism had elitist views about what humanity should be. ThisHuman Beehive concept has been envisioned by the ruling elite class throughout history as the ideal society. The ultimate slave race, scientifically designed to conform, obey and serve the needs of the elite – worker bees who do not question or rebel.

Transhumanists envision this Hive Mind as being possible when all people across the world can link their minds together using technology, creating a symbiotic existence through the new superintelligence of this collective Hive Mind. Forget about the needs of the individual – it’s all about the Hive. They refer to this collective, superintelligence as the Singularity.

Uploading Your Mind


MURG” is the acronym that Transhumanists use to refer to the “Mind Upload Research Group”.
The Hive Mind, or Singularity, that they are working toward, will occur, they believe, when technology exists that will allow humans to “upload their minds” to an artificial memory device, a sort of global hard drive, so that the combined intelligence of all our minds will create this new superintelligence that is the Singularity, or Hive Mind.

The Cult of Transhumanism
“Instead of meekly worshiping fictional gods, or blindly dismissing the ideals they represent, we should seek to become godlike ourselves. The body is weak, but the mind can be forever. People may die, but they can be preserved and resurrected. This world may in many ways resemble hell, but we can create heaven on earth. The universe may be a place of chaos and entropy, but we can fill it with order and intelligence. Guided by reason and empowered by technology, we can bend reality to our will, and make the impossible possible.”
Transhumanist ideas of becoming gods and having eternal life through technology certainly display an extreme level of vanity. Not just the simple human vanity of wearing nice clothes and putting on makeup to look good – but to BE gods – therefore, rejecting and replacing God, entirely. This is the Luciferian doctrine.


Pragmatic Morality

The Transhumanist idea that they call Pragmatic Morality, is simply a recycled and renamed version of the oldest deception in the world – that there is no good or evil.
Here is how this concept applies to the beliefs of the cult of Transhumanism:
“Ethics and morals must serve, or at least not stand in the way of, boundless self-actualization. They should be tools and guidelines for successful living, not instruments of senseless repression. Like the flesh, traditional morality is something to be overcome. There is no ‘Good’ and ‘Evil’; just efficiency and inefficiency; intelligence and stupidity; winners and losers. There is only rational self-interest, and those too timid and ignorant to pursue it. This simple yet profound realization forms the bedrock of an empowered worldview, and is a key step towards achieving enlightenment and transcendence.”


THE PATRON SAINT OF TRANSHUMANISM

“‘Lucifer’ is the Latin term originally used by the Romans to refer to the planet Venus when that planet was west of the sun and hence rose before the sun in the morning, thereby being the morning star.”

“According to Extropian philosopher Max More, “Lucifer is the embodiment of reason, of intelligence, of critical thought. He stands against the dogma of God and all other dogmas. He stands for the exploration of new ideas and new perspectives in the pursuit of truth.” He is also the archetypal iconoclast, rebel, and adversary (the word ‘Satan’ is from a Hebrew word, ‘Sathane’, meaning adversary or culminiator; in original Jewish usage [see the book of Job], Satan is the adversary, not of God, but of mankind; i.e., the angel charged by God with the task of proving that mankind is an unworthy creation). In the transtopian context, Lucifer represents ambition, rebellion, rational enlightenment, and the dark side of Transhumanism.”

Selling Transhumanism to the Masses using Psychological Warfare


What exactly is “Psychological Warfare“?

Psychological Warfare (PSYWAR) is defined by the U.S. Department of Defense as:

“The planned use of propaganda and other psychological actions having the primary purpose of influencing the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behavior…of groups in such a way as to support the…objectives.”

Various techniques are used, by any set of groups, and aimed to influence a target audience’s value systems, belief systems, emotions, motives, reasoning, or behavior.”

This is often referred to as “winning hearts and minds“, or similarly, “Capture their minds and their hearts and souls will follow.”

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Transhumanism In Bible Prophecy

The bible has a lot to say about our future. Approximately 3,000 years ago, King David wrote about the hearts of men just prior to the Glorious Appearing of Jesus Christ, as men prepared to "free themselves from God's slavery":


"Why do the nations rage? Why do the people waste their time with futile plans? The kings of the earth prepare for battle; the rulers plot together against the Lord and against His Anointed One. 'Let us break their chains,' they cry. 'And free ourselves from this slavery.' But the one who rules in heaven laughs. The Lord scoffs at them." Psalm 2:1-4 (NLT)

The viewpoint of end time humanity is one of animosity toward God. Humanity will view its limitations as arbitrary obstacles erected by God. As a result, humanity will prepare for battle against the Lord in an effort to break the shackles of its perceived oppressor.

The Transhumanist Declaration asserts a desire which has much in common with the attitude of humanity in the last days:

"Humanity stands to be profoundly affected by science and technology in the future. We envision the possibility of broadening human potential by overcoming aging, cognitive shortcomings, involuntary suffering, and our confinement to planet Earth." The Transhumanist Declaration (Humanity+)

When asked by His disciples to describe the time of the end and the day of His Coming, Jesus stated:
"In fact, unless that time of calamity is shortened, not a single person will survive. But it will be shortened for the sake of God's chosen ones."Matthew 24:22 (NLT)

In this translation, the phrase "not a single person will survive" is deceptive. Why?

Because it's the result of the translator's assumption that the phrases "no flesh will survive" and "no people will survive" are interchangeable.

Assuming the possibility exists for a transhumanist future, the two phrases are not.

According to Strong's Concordance, the key Greek word in this phrase is translated "sarx," and means:
"flesh (as stripped of the skin), i.e. (strictly) the meat of an animal (as food), or (by extens.) the body (as opposed to the soul [or spirit], or as the symbol of what is external, or as the means of kindred), or (by impl.)human nature (with its frailties [phys. or mor.] and passions), or (spec.) a human being (as such)"

Taken in its original context, Jesus did not necessarily say that unless those days are shortened, "humanity will not survive."

Instead, he said unless those days are shortened, "no flesh will survive."
If the transhumanist movement succeeds in transforming the human race into a race of "posthumans" who no longer need flesh covered bones to survive, then these words of Jesus take on an entirely different meaning.
And it doesn't take an illogical leap of faith to draw this conclusion.

After all, it seems reasonable to assume that humanity will have to undergo some sort of radical transformation in order to plot a war against God Almighty. The arrogant impulse already exists. All that remains is the need for an exponential increase in human power which deludes humanity into believing it can overcome the Lord of lords.

And make no mistake about it, the Bible is clear that this is where humanity is ultimately headed - physical conflict with God:

"Then I saw the beast gathering the kings of the earth and their armies in order to fight against the one sitting on the horse and his army."Revelation 19:19 (NLT)

Do not confuse the "war" with a spiritual struggle.
According to Strong's Concordance, the key word here is translated "polemos," and means:
"warfare (lit. or fig.; a single encounter or a series) - battle, fight, war."

The word "polemos" appears at least 16 times in the New Testament, and in each case, it refers to physical conflict, not a spiritual one as Paul refers to here:

"For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places." Ephesians 6:12 (NLT)

When Paul speaks of the spiritual struggle, he uses the word "pale." According to Strong's Concordance, "pale" means:
"wrestling"

Clearly, the Bible differentiates between our everyday spiritual struggle with the forces of darkness and literal phsyical conflict in the form of war.

Regarding the Antichrist, the gathering at Armageddon, and the Glorious Appearing of Jesus Christ, it's clearly prophesied that man will engage in physical battle with God Almighty:

"From one of the prominent horns came a small horn whose power grew very great. It extended toward the south and east and toward the glorious land of Israel. His power reached to the heavens where it attacked the heavenly armies, throwing some of the heavenly beings and stars to the ground and trampling them. He even challenged the Commander of heaven's armies by canceling the daily sacrifices offered to him and by destroying his Temple." Daniel 8:9-11 (NLT)

The power of the Antichrist will be immense enough to attack the heavenly armies, throwing angels to the ground and trampling them in the process. He will even attack the Commander of heaven's armies, Jesus Christ.
But the attack is futile. Jesus will destroy the Antichrist and all those aligned against God.


Sources:
www.vigilantcitizen.com
www.end-times-bible-prophecy.com
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