Transhumanism - Making Better Humans | Heriot-Watt Chaplaincy Annual Public Lecture 2024 (with BSL)

This year's Annual Public Lecture explores the relationship of science and faith. Are they mutually exclusive, or might they combine to offer deeper insights into the world as we know it? Heriot-Watt places an emphasis on STEM subjects, but we also pride ourselves on being a place where faith can be openly spoken about and explored.
This year, we are delighted to welcome back Professor John Wyatt to give the annual lecture on the subject of Transhumanism - Making Better Humans. He will consider how technological human enhancement is moving from the dreams of science fiction to hard reality. From enhanced soldiers, brain-computer interfaces, moral enhancement technology, digital avatars and radical life extension, what will the future hold for humanity? Professor Wyatt will explore the startling possibilities of enhancement technology and ask what these advances mean for human flourishing and the future of Homo Sapiens.
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[@mm-rj3vo]

Bro, the movie is WALL-E

[@richardnunziata3221]

I suppose the answer is to use force of the law to restrict people use of tech , you know no abortions, forces pray, monitoring and surveillance. Yes a strong state with proper people as defined by the state, and we certainly restrict what can be written about even fiction.

[@mm-rj3vo]

No? Yeah. No.

[@mm-rj3vo]

I see HOW he got his degrees. I disagree with WHY

[@mm-rj3vo]

"These are questions we are going to have to face..." So how bout you be proactive and help us out, there, proffesor? Answer the question. When the object you use as a "tool" asks you not to use it as a tool, what do YOU do?

[@MusingsFromTheJohn00]

Christianity seems particularly important within the core of this video, as expressed within its beginning. If any form of Christianity is to survive and not become extinct as so many ancient mythologies, then Christianity needs to evolve, which means keeping the good parts of Christianity while rejecting and growing past some other parts of Christianity, because as a race we have grown beyond some of the primitive and actually very unethical believes within ancient Christianity which the super majority of modern society now finds very wrong. If the core of modern Christianity does not change and evolve, it will become extinct. This is in fact happening to all of humanity. Those who evolve, who adapt, who grow, who become more than than are now, they will form the future... and those who fail to do this will become extinct. Now... Cosmetic Surgery is NOT transhumanism. Transhumanism is really incorporating our most advanced technologies to make us more than we are now... like having a cure to cancer... like having a cure to Alzheimer disease... like having cures to diseases like sickle cell anemia... like curing the debilitating terrible horrific torturous disease of old age. Some idiots want us to think that it is good that you and I must physically and mentally decline as we age, slowly, painfully, and over a period of decades of going from 0 being perfect youthful health to 10 being you can't live any more as you slowly die in agony, that you should accept that. But, why? The truth is that the future is going to go to those who evolve, and those who evolve will cure the disease of old age. That means "Transhumans" in the future will always normally be at "0" on the ") to 10" scale of old age disease. This is not to say that new problems will not arise, because of course they will, and then we will have to deal with those new problems. But those who fail to evolve will lose the ability to compete because those who fail to evolve will become the "Chimpanzee" of the future... and how much power or equality does a "Chimpanzee" have in modern human society? Point being... humans who fail to evolve will become the "Chimpanzees" in the future of humanity. Worse... as time move forward... those "Chimpanzees" will become extinct. Do you really want your descendants to become extinct?

[@VisionaryWonderSpace]

what will Christianity become according to your evolution theory? Certainly, cosmetic surgery is not transhumanism not even close but that is one catalogue involved the high technology, no? Speaking of Chimpanzees, they are not who they are because they fail to evolve. and the question will be directed to if the theory of Evolution is true. Evolution is the future of humanity, it could be also present, we are evolving every day in certain ways, and whoever fails is leading to an end, no? In my humble opinion, I think we have some solutions to diseases, either some people hiding them for purposes or we are surrounded by chemical and artificial ingredients, the answer is right there but not many people will live without it, therefore, we shouldn't count on the medicine solutions and wait till one day they finally willing to cure people without huge profits. This is quite a brief of transhumanism in between religion(spirituality), nature, a bit of technology, humanity…etc, I think there is more to discuss more comprehensive in every industry. When I am in touch with the topic of Transhumanism, Immediately I think about Gen X and Alpha, because their parents have better abilities to provide better training and education, and they are stimulated by multi-cultural skills, theories, ideas, languages…etc through the internet. They are strong(better nutrition, more prevent diseases )and fast learning and develop when they are at young ages, and achieve their goal while the older generations couldn’t. Overall, I would like to know more about Transhumanism in every way in the coming days, it is going to be fascinating.

[@cryptocred5754]

@alexjones

[@humannature827]

looks like it had opposite effect on these ladies.....