transhumanism has a dark side for sure if you've read any science fiction novels where the term was coined
for the most part, a transhuman society has abandoned god in exchange for immortality but the very same problems that have plagued humanity for thousands of years are still very apparrant in all the core issues in the story.
I think technology and the advancement of our understanding of how our body functions (including the brain) is a good thing but any technology, no matter how good it is or how noble the person/people that built it is/was, there will be people out there finding ways to exploit it to their personal advantage.
For example, certain brain and spine implants or operations in the near future can very well cure people from paralysis, give them back their sight, or give them a higher IQ to be able to compete with others but at the same time these methods can be exploited to create a slave class that are perfectly content to spend their lives working like robots because their higher consciousness is blocked (maybe because they couldn't pay off their debts)
then you have ideas of a transhumanist society that linked their consiousness together where they operate as a hive mind but their thoughts are no longer private but they still have a hierarchy of often rich or important immortals who cling to power and destroy anyone who tries to move to the same level as them (very familiar human problem, but now it's more dangerous because you're stuck in a hive mind with people like this).
Then you get to the level of posthumans where people are no longer human - they either genespliced themselves into literal demon chimeras to adapt to certain envrionments, they became code in a quantum computer that exist inside simulations or they became clones that back up their minds so they can theoretically live forever and they live a life of decadence and pointless hedonism (getting high with just a thought, fighting wars for no reason other than to feel alive, or anything else you can imagine) - this lifestyle is similar to the garden of eden except there is no connection to any spirit or god, the best you get is a connection to an AI super mind that will handle your problems like an administrator and keep (post)humans around like a pet as it and it's kind drives the future of 'humanity' forward - in this future the machines will be more human than the actual humans.
transhumanism has a dark side for sure if you've read any science fiction novels where the term was coined
for the most part, a transhuman society has abandoned god in exchange for immortality but the very same problems that have plagued humanity for thousands of years are still very apparrant in all the core issues in the story.
I think technology and the advancement of our understanding of how our body functions (including the brain) is a good thing but any technology, no matter how good it is or how noble the person/people that built it is/was, there will be people out there finding ways to exploit it to their personal advantage.
For example, certain brain and spine implants or operations in the near future can very well cure people from paralysis, give them back their sight, or give them a higher IQ to be able to compete with others but at the same time these methods can be exploited to create a slave class that are perfectly content to spend their lives working like robots because their higher consciousness is blocked (maybe because they couldn't pay off their debts)
then you have ideas of a transhumanist society that linked their consiousness together where they operate as a hive mind but their thoughts are no longer private but they still have a hierarchy of often rich or important immortals who cling to power and destroy anyone who tries to move to the same level as them (very familiar human problem, but now it's more dangerous because you're stuck in a hive mind with people like this).
Then you get to the level of posthumans where people are no longer human - they either genespliced themselves into literal demon chimeras to adapt to certain envrionments, they became code in a quantum computer that exist inside simulations or they became clones that back up their minds so they can theoretically live forever and they live a life of decadence and pointless hedonism (getting high with just a thought, fighting wars for no reason other than to feel alive, or anything else you can imagine) - this lifestyle is similar to the garden of eden except there is no connection to any spirit or god, the best you get is a connection to an AI super mind that will handle your problems like an administrator and keep (post)humans around like a pet as it and it's kind drives the future of 'humanity' forward - in this future the machines will be more human than the actual humans.
Great post