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Originally Posted by Ze'Manel Cunha
I would counter that Technoworship and the mystical belief that you can create and upload a copy of "you" which then lives on after your body dies is not any different from the mystical belief in a "soul" which lives on after your body dies.
Uploaded sentient ghosts and souls are all equivalent mystical wishful thinking, though with the upload you also become legion instead of merely having an immortal soul.
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As I see it:
Transhumanism = atheism +
fear of death + a desire to replace a 'dead' God with 'Trans-humanity'
There is serious speculation behind the technological assumptions and predictions of transhumanism, but the
ideological thrust of the 'movement' is definitely mystical and religious in nature.
YMMV, of course.