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Conversations: With Professor John Gray, Political Philosopher & Author

John Anderson: Conversations

CHAPTER

The Unwitting Code of Transhumanism

These supposedly secular trends in thought are expressions of religious needs and ideas. They think they've transcended it, but actually every word is a kind of unwittingly coded. It affects even thinkers of interest like Harari who thinks the human species can become gods by linking up with AI. If that happens, if there are new species, post human species, there won't be one, there will be several. Warring gods, that's what it'll be. I think it'd be terrible if it does happen.

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