March 29, 2023

The American people have worked hard to ensure equality for all citizens. So now science has advanced to where a new hybrid super breed of people can be created with enhanced genetics and digital intelligence, and many danger signs are ahead. In the long term, transhumanism could threaten to upend the world’s personal, familial, and cultural foundations. Hollywood has portrayed these futuristic scenarios in many SciFi thrillers. But this time, the script is real life and could play out as a slow-motion horror show. 

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Transhumanism seeks to change people into superhumans by merging biology and advanced technology. Do not confuse transhumanists with transsexuals. Transhumanism is about surpassing the natural state of one’s race, genetics, or unique aptitudes as if life has no limits. 

The Declaration of Independence says “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness.” This nation has lived by this ideal (imperfectly) since its Founding, and it has been the reason for our tranquility and prosperity over the years. But transhumanism may end these self-evident truths once it becomes a reality – and all men are no longer equal.

We have seen what happens when one race considers itself superior to others in America and Europe, leading up to the Holocaust. Imagine what a superior race of cyborg beings would be tempted to do to ordinary, unenhanced individuals who do not measure up in their eyes. It makes for an explosive situation.

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Transhumanism begins with Artificial intelligence or AI. AI is concerned with building computers and machines that can reason, learn, and act in a way that would typically require human intelligence or involve data whose scale exceeds what humans can analyze. AI can solve many problems by intelligently searching through many possible solutions. AI now works in many real-world applications, ranging from facial recognition to language translators and personal helpers such as Google Assistant, Apple’s Siri, and Amazon’s Alexa. AI’s impact on all aspects of the human condition will continue to grow in the years ahead, especially when paired with robotics and other technologies.

And one of those technologies is the Brain-Computer Interface or BCI. Wealthy tech moguls are bankrolling the development of BCI research that may soon receive FDA approval to place it in the human brain. The BCI device operates as a touchpad for the mind. Developers promise the sightless will see and the disabled will walk. To some degree, that’s already occurring, and now the objective has moved from rehabilitation to “enhancement.” 

It’s the fusion of mind and machine, allowing the user to control digital activity with his thoughts alone. The BCI is a micro-electrode array placed on top of the brain, requiring doctors to cut through bone for installation. The processor is a quarter-sized skull plug with a thousand hair-thin wires spreading into the brain tissue below. It scans brain waves for the intent of the individual. This data is sent through a wire to an antenna implanted in the chest. That signal is then sent to external devices, most likely a PC, laptop, tablet, or smartphone, for connection to the internet.

It gives scientists and Artificial Intelligence access directly into an individual’s mind. Theoretically, this would allow a BCI-equipped individual to instantly recall all information on the internet and, with the help of AI, the ability to scroll immediately through all records with just their thoughts. His intelligence would multiply a thousandfold. For many working on this technology, the prospect of this intellectual enhancement through a man-machine merger is intoxicating. A transhuman being would be brilliant beyond measure. But imagine the hubris that it would bring about. Incredible intelligence without wisdom is the likely result.

Biological and digital techniques are starting to connect in ways that will disrupt the foundations of our economy, society, family, and bodies. We could reach a point where genetic engineering technologies will program human cells like we program computers and read and rewrite the mind like a RAM drive. In the next 20 years, this technology could advance toward a biodigital convergence, or what they are already calling “Human 2.0.” It could be an inflection point in history.

Meanwhile, technological advances in nanotechnology may soon have microrobots running through your veins to carry out medical treatments. They are used in cell imaging, research as DNA probes, and cell-specific distribution devices. Theoretically, they can repair the human body at a cellular level and extend life forever.