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Busted and Babeling

The Ricochet Podcast

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The Desire for Spirituality

There has never been a time in American culture where there hasn't been a desire for some sort of spirituality. The same thing is true of various attempts in Silicon Valley and beyond to merge consciousness into a computer system, or to promote various absurd Transhumanist schemes. So no, I don't think the message is that the scientific community itself is discovering them. It never will, it never has. Are there those limits? Is everything that's not forbidden by the laws of physics actually possible and it's possible desirable? Those are very significant questions I wouldn't have an answer but I think they should be asked.

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