Are We Becoming Hackable Humans?

“Make the unthinkable thinkable again.”

— Julian Huxley (1946)

Can you imagine a world where humans are hackable enough to merge our bodies and minds with artificial intelligence?

So that our life experience becomes purely technologically based and abolishes one of our primary roots of suffering — death.

Transhumanism.

Even the word sounds creepy to me. Never mind that it’s a school of thought that seeks to guide us toward a posthuman condition, with disregard to the human soul. Or that a primary goal of many transhumanists is to convince the public that embracing radical technology and eugenic science is in the best interests of the human species.

You know, like accepting digital dictatorships that will eventually monitor everyone all the time and celebrate certain gene therapy practices. But, essentially, to see transhumanism as evolutionary to our species.

Technology can indeed take us so far, but can it replicate our soul? Stand in place of our emotional connection to consciousness?

It feels pretty extreme.

And creepy.

Transhumanism is about creating hybrid humans based on artificial intelligence, with the radical end goal to replace the organic spiritual consciousness of humans.

The fundamental basis of the Transhumanism concept is the A.I. downloaded into the human scientific mind to achieve a superior race and immortality.

Very science-fiction.

Very Ex Machina, or classic 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Or The Matrix.

The 1999 sci-fi action thriller is one of the most well-known examples, depicting a dystopian future in which intelligent machines have enslaved humanity within a simulated reality.

No one can forget the scene where Morpheus offers Neo the choice between the blue and red pills — blue to remain in ignorance and red, to learn the un-simulated truth.

Here’s an un-simulated truth: The concept and development of transhumanism began in the early 1900s.

It’s nothing new.

In 1957, former president of the British Eugenics Institute (renamed Galton Institute), Julian Huxley, coined “transhumanism” in his essay New Bottles for New Wines.

Here’s what Huxley — a eugenicist and evolutionary biologist had to say:

“The exploration of human nature and its possibilities has scarcely begun. We are beginning to realize that even the most fortunate people are living far below capacity and that most human beings develop not more than a small fraction of their potential mental and spiritual efficiency. The human race, in fact, is surrounded by a large area of unrealized.”

Huxley outlined a gene-editing roadmap using eugenic science technology that “needed to be applied to create a new human being.” That is, his vision of bringing quality over “mere quantity” humans into fruition.

Hello, human 2.0.?

He even predicted the method would be rather distasteful.

“This process too will begin by being unpleasant and end by being beneficent. It will begin by destroying the ideas and the institutions that stand in the way of our realizing our possibilities (or even deny that the possibilities are there to be realized) and will go on by at least making a start with the actual construction of true human destiny.”

Interesting, huh.

So is the fact that despite that the Galton Institute has “disassociated itself from any interest in the theory and practice of eugenics,” board member David Galton more recently published a book titled, Eugenics: The Future of Human Life in the 21st Century.

I think it might be a lot about eugenics.

Incidentally, the book received positive reviews from the British press.

Then there was billionaire “scientific philanthropist” Jeffery Epstein, an American financier and convicted sex offender.

It’s no secret that Epstein possessed a fascination for eugenics. As a result, he attracted a glittering array of prominent scientists, including:

• Oliver Sacks, neurologist, and author.
• Stephen J. Gould, an evolutionary biologist.
• Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist.
• Stephen Hawking, British physicist.

And compellingly,

George M. Church — a Harvard geneticist dedicated to creating superior humans.

It’s public information.

Epstein funded a myriad of research units, too.

According to the Daily Mail, he donated $20,000 to the Worldwide Transhumanist Association, the world’s largest transhumanist group, which now goes by Humanity+, and paid the $100,000 salary of its vice-chairman.

Epstein wanted to “seed the world” with his DNA. He wanted to create new people. He also wanted his “head and penis to be frozen” and donated to charities that supported transhumanism. After his death, of course.

Stark raving mad if you ask me.

Though, from what I can gather, “stark raving” seems to be a commonality among those devoted to eugenics.

Take George Church. His eugenic-like interests have seen him openly accused of eugenicist ideas and unethical human experiments — by the mainstream U.S. press.

The controversial Harvard professor is well-known for his roles in humanity’s first effort at sequencing the human genome, as well as founding a company called digiD8, a somewhat unconventional dating app, and let’s not overlook his ambition to resurrect Neanderthals.

Interestingly, in a 2019 60 Minute interview, Church claimed to have developed age reversal for mice and eventually for humans.

Yeah, we never stopped going down eugenic-tainted roads.

Maybe we’ll be forced to swallow some pills.

Blue or Red?

Yuval Harari said:

“It’s in the interest of all humans, including the elites, to prevent the rise of such digital dictatorships.”

It’s a hard pill to swallow.

The idea is that certain influential circles may invariably control the direction of humanity. They may isolate themselves from interacting with regular people or the general public to live in their self-created bubbles, where obsessions to achieve immortality through transhumanism and developing gene-editing technology are becoming more realized.

Don’t believe me?

The evidence is in plain sight.

Davos 2020, World Economic Forum:

Israeli Historian Yuval Harari gave a speech on How to Survive the 21st Century. He outlined how technology is potentially being used to alter the future of humanity in extremely dystopian ways.

“It’s in the interest of all humans, including the elites, to prevent the rise of such digital dictatorships.”

Harari predicted and warned his peers of digital dictatorship, new forms of totalitarianism, and biohacking humans to the point where they either become godlike or lose all of their spirituality.

All are achievable through the combination of genetic engineering and brain-machine interface technology.

Harari said:

“The power to hack human beings can, of course, be used for good purposes like providing much better healthcare, but if this power falls into the hands of a 21st Century Stalin, the result will be the worst totalitarian regime in human history, and we already have a number of applicants for the job of 21st Century Stalin.”

Farfetched?

Farfetched enough for Elon Musk to speak openly about it.

In November 2014, Elon Musk warned us about the real possibility of humanity being compromised by “digital superintelligences,” referring to artificial intelligence as “summoning the demon.”

Granted, Musk made assurances about the safety practices of leading A.I. companies. Still, he was worried about the glitch — the uncontrollable “machine” compromising the future of Earth.

“The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five-year timeframe,” he said. “Maybe ten.”

That was six years ago.

Which makes me wonder: What does Musk know that we don’t?

If I were to guess, I’d say a hell of a lot.

And a lot more than The Three Laws of Robotics or Asimov’s Laws — a set of rules devised by science fiction author Isaac Asimov, introduced in his 1942 short story Runaround.

First Law — A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Second Law — A robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

Third Law — A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

This begs the question:

Are we becoming hackable humans?

Maybe I’m over-thinking transhumanism.

Maybe, I’m missing the point, and transhumanism isn’t creepy but good.

We all want a high-quality, heroic life. We all want longevity — to focus on uncharted possibilities that create new options, miracles, even.

We want to strive for positive transformation, long-term success, bio-hacking, and greatness —but at the expense of our souls and connection to divine consciousness?

Because that’s what radical transhumanists are missing.

That’s what they don’t get or respect enough to explore and honor in their humbleness — their humanity.

And until these people realize that the human life experience is about natural evolution through the heart and soul and that people do have personal consciousness outside of their body with the ability to communicate with other dimensions. Then, I’m afraid they will have zero information about consciousness and are uninformed and ignorant about the nature of reality.

I don’t want to be a hackable human.

No one will ever replicate the intelligent design of my authentic, energetic signature. Or replace my spiritual connection to the universe with an artificial chip.

Who put these power-hungry people in charge of scientifically directing the future evolution of the human species, anyway?

Certainly not I.

Indeed, not the source of all creation.