Humanize From Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism
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immortality

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Hologram of human head made of wireframe plexus structure. Concept of artificial intelligence. 3D rendering
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Transhumanists’ Futile Quest for Eternal Life

I understand the yearning of atheists and materialists to escape the nihilism that the expectation of personal obliteration at death can generate in the human heart. But eternal life is not something that we have the power to invent — no matter how technologically advanced we become. Whatever that experience might be, it will be found in a Kingdom that is not of this world. Read More ›
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Handle project: anthropomorphic artificial hand reproducing gripping movements.
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The Fantasy of Living Forever in a Computer

Transhumanists pursue the dream of immortality by hoping to upload their minds into computers — as if the mimicking software would be them. No, it would be a computer program, nothing more. They would still be dead and gone. And here’s another somewhat less ambitious approach to the same goal. Apparently a company is developing technology that would allow you to speak to loved ones after you shuffle off this mortal coil. From the Vice story: The founder of a top metaverse company says that the fast-moving development of ChatGPT has pushed the timeline for one of his most ambitious and eccentric projects up by a matter of years. In an interview with Motherboard, Somnium Space’s Artur Sychov said a user has started to integrate OpenAI’s Read More ›