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Ep. 44 Deion Kathawa: Technology, Religion, and Humanity in a Post-Human Age

The Moral Imagination

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The Purpose of Being Human

i think the whole point of being human is not to be smarter, faster, stronger, more beautiful. That really is a serious misunderstandingo the point of why we're here. Christ didn't seek after enhancement of his own body, an enhancement of his intellect and n becoming the fastest and te strongest,. He gave himself up for all of us, right? It's about virtue. It's about charity to our neighbor, about being just to one another. All those things might, if it were lucky, be enhanced by us being more intelligent. But i have to say, i'm sceptical that more intelligence will help us with that progest.

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