So who does the transhumanism? Transhumanists, right? Who are the transhumanists, are they people like us? At first glance, It appears that they are human but looking at what they do and not what they say they come across as beings in a human outfit but beyond that outfit there is not much humanity left or there was not much humanity in the first place.
As I just commented below, I do not believe the transhumanist movement is for the useless eaters, nor the next notch above them, which maybe most of us shrews fall into. Who knows, if enough people get on that bandwagon, then maybe they eventually will be welcomed into the club. I don't think they want to get rid of the whole population, so I am sure many "every day ordinary people" will join the ranks of the transhumanists...but that will still be a small percentage of the world population...I am not sure if most opulent Westerners realize they are part of a very small percentage of the world population which is basically destitute.
It is clear, as my article presents, that the "rich world" which definitely includes Europe, North America, and what seems to be most of the world (but isn't in sheer numbers) are being ushered into transhumanism...AI advancements, technology in general, obliteration of the arts. It is difficult to tell if this mass movement toward "digitalism" and thus transhumanism is a sign "they" want us in their club, or if it is just a deception, and part of a slow plan to eliminate most people and replace them with machinery and AI. Time will tell.
The Terminator film franchise is a good place to look to see this "plan" implemented. The masses will eventually destroy themselves in this mess, no one really has to do that for them. Read Vonnegut's "Player Piano" for a funny take on it all.
Oh my gosh how this hit home!!! I wrote a comment yesterday on Facebook about how the loss of cursive actually makes people less creative. The physical act of the flow of the hand while writing cursive is connected to both the right and left brain in both logical and ARTISTIC ways. And music! I cannot listen to Mozart without a REAL orchestra with HUMANS playing the instruments! What will happen to humanity if people quit learning to play instruments?!! How tragic. And the telephone calls are not only insulting, but make you feel completely unimportant. Now I am required to sign into my doctor appointment on my phone before I even go there. I can't see well enough to do this and the receptionists are annoyed that they have to actually help me in the traditional ways. Yes, not only is it depressing, but it is inhuman and makes us feel helplessly alone. I do understand that there are just too many people and not enough helpers so this will probably just keep on, but I think younger people just go along with all this digital life with blind acceptance. I also recently have been shocked by ads in The Atlantic advertising gentle biotech enhancements to the human body to increase life experience. Good Grief.
I am so pleased people "get this"...you explain this so well, it is so clear that you understand what the article was about. I was worried that my ideas would be considered too "out there" and not really pertinent. Thank you.
I left my career as a film composer primarily because I just couldn't stand what I was seeing...I used to say the soul was taken out of music if not played by real humans...people thought I was crazy.
And thank you too for your comments on the phone situation...that validation was very welcome...
And I have to say it isn't about "too many people and not enough helpers"...that too is all fabricated, just like climate warming is fabricated. It may appear that way because young people will not settle for lesser paying jobs...it is cheaper for them to lay on their parents' couch and watch Netflix all day...and it doesn't help that they can't afford a place to live, other than mom and dad's, because rent is insane...and jobs don't pay enough...whatever...round and round and round.
Please share my articles on your social media!! Send them via email to friends!! I need this stuff to get out there so I can't keep at it!
And lastly, a comment on an inability to produce cursive writing. Not having learned how to write cursively means you cannot take notes in a real-time situation, producing an inordinate dependence upon digital representation of reality for future reference. It has to either be recorded, which precludes the distillation of verbiage into cogent points worth noting (which is, of course, the whole point of taking notes, as this is where learning occurs!), or reduced to a set of bare bones PowerPoint slides, which too miss any nuance and wipe from memory most details that render an argument clear and relevant to human cognition. I also wonder, but haven't the neurophysiological knowledge to address, whether cursive writing engages different parts of the brain that printing does not stimulate, thereby reducing a particular kind of intelligence, perhaps one associated with analog awareness and its sequelae- context, meaning, morality and empathy.
On another note entirely, children who cannot read an analog clock lose context of their activities within a spectrum of time. That is, they cannot relate what is actually happening to what comes before or after, and, as Weber pointed out over a hundred years ago, understanding of social behavior only arises when activities are seen in a social context. That means if you can't read an analog clock, chancez are you don't understand your actions except as isolated from a web of meanin. This precludes any kind of moral yardstick, as morality rests entirely in contextual understanding of specific moments in time. Ergo, indeed, digital-think produces a Foucauldian existence without any touchstone of morality, reality, or meaning. Without these aspects, how can a life have meaning? (And now I am sure there will be a chorus of existential objectors, claiming that no such meaning is ever possible, which, of course, it isn't in such an a posteriori universe.)
What seems to me to be commonly missed is this idea that digital is innocuous. It's not so much a case of not recognizing human variations, which are infinite, within any given paradigmatic spectrum of behavior, but of forcing people into behavioral boxes. If certain behaviors are not recognized for long enough, they cease to exist because they cease to be conceptually constructed as a phenomenon apart from the background field. For example, in medicine if a list of checkboxes does not describe a patient's' symptoms, these symptoms cease to exist, both in the minds of the clinician and the patient, and certainly historically, as they never make it into the documentation. In the obstetric world, where I spent several decades, women's prenatal and intrapartum progress were forced into fitting into certain time limits, the limits of which were determined by statistical manipulation that produced an artifactual woman. Consequently, if an individual woman and her labor persisted outside these artifactual parameters (too slow OR too fast), then she was assaulted with risk- and harm-inducing interventions so as to make her behavior fit within the supposed normal guidelines. The ancients recognized what this was, but we don't: it is a Procrustean bed, where if you're too tall they cut off your feet, and if you're too short they stretch you on the rack. Right now we are being cut off and mangled and stretched in order to fit a particularly manageable bureaucratic grid of artifactual beings, of which there is probably not one single example. all bureaucratic grids, that attempt to characterize individuals as a set of yes or no ticks in a list of supposedly definitive check boxes, end up wiping out recognition of entire sectors of individuals whose profiles do not fit the states definition. This has long been a recognized phenomenon in sociological and political theory.
WOW...this is EXACTLY what I was getting at!! I think I've written another article that goes into some detail about this, (your comment about a symptom ceasing to exist if it isn't on the checklist is brilliant).
Thank you so much for this, it is a great addition to the article.
You hit me in one of my favorite subjects, Todd. At some point in my life (several years ago) I used to think that reality (including humanity) was digital. My idea came from studying some eastern philosophies and encountering the concept of Yin-Yang (apparently digital). Also the concept of light consisting of discrete "photons" reinforced the idea. But, I have revised my thinking, and I am convinced that reality (and humanity) is analog. The digital construct is just a convenient idea that helps us understand and classify certain phenomena or observations in convenient "boxes". But, as you illustrated, "there are an infinite number of points between any two other points". The world is analog... we construct digital machines, which are useful tools; but machines cannot be human.
Let's not get started talking about analog and digital in music...
I think reductionist science wants to reduce it all down to positive and negative charges...a dualistic concept which is indeed digital. Obviously they are leaving out the "unseen"...there is a possibility that the material aspects of the material world can indeed be reduced down to ones and zeroes...but again, there is more to this than the material world. Soul and spirit exists within the material, it flows all through it, so we can say that nature is analog, life is analog, without the soul and spirit material particles would not be able to stay together! Quite literally!
Oliver Reiser's 'The World Sensorium' provides early insights into what researcher Alison McDowell today describes as the 'ant-computer'.
Tolkien mentions 'One Ring to rule them all..', the question now for all of us is to identify the lynch-pin of this corrupt system and focus our energy.
I wanted to connect with my 30 something niece and she suggested zoom. I refused and told her that I don't do digital. She changed her mind within 24 hours and we met together for a lovely visit and lunch. My advice is to reject the offerings of the digital universe as much as possible and demand I.R.L. - In Real Life.
Thank you...I personally have to start practicing what I preach...and I am impressed you did what you did. I have done some things like this, but need to do more...i.e., I refused to continue with a group on Zoom that used to meet in person...and I refuse to have doctor's visits on Zoom...It is a long road ahead of us...
What I find most interesting is people's obliviousness to phasing themselves out of a job, in real-time. With no other options at 6am for coffee on the road, I reluctantly popped into a McDonalds. The staff were encouraging everyone to use the automated touch screen towers to order. It was not busy. I said I wanted to deal with a human, and the girl walked out from behind the cashier and said she'd help me to use the touchscreen. She refused to serve me at the cashier. I walked out.
I couldn't agree more. I just read a piece about how AI could replace many doctors, particularly since so many of them just check boxes now and algorithmic diagnoses are often as accurate as human diagnoses. Radiology can already be outsourced to doctors in India and yet these medical "experts" are seemingly blind to the fact they could be replaced. Hey, maybe the AI would be less condescending than human MDs!
It's amazing that most humans can't project a few moves ahead and understand that they are creating their own digital prison camp. Convenience comes at a very high price but it seems that only those of us over a certain age are able to see how the digital world can quickly shift from convenience to total control...not to mention how talking to an imperfect human on the other end of the phone line was more often than not far more convenient than the infinite loop customer "service" has become.
That sounds interesting - could you share the link to the piece please? You might find this piece I wrote eye opening - How AI could be used to cover up Genocide:
It is also shocking that people do not realize that the whole point of being human is being human. It is not just a fear of being replaced by machines, which is indeed formidable, but it is a matter of soon not having anything human to relate to. People seem to think that that would just be fine...no love, no intuitive connection, no empathy, no meaning....why is all this so easy for people to just cast out of their lives?
Wow...you are my hero!! What a wonderful story...but also sad and disheartening...it reminds me of making prisoners dig their own graves...literally...
And I totally agree how people seem totally oblivious to this self elimination. I think part of our brainwashing is to think that as we get more advanced it means we will become freer with no job to do...and just sit around and "be happy."
Thank you...thanks to all of you who support this by validating what I write. I find it fascinating that we all basically see everything the same way!!
Transhumanisim is really just for the elite. Even today, the "advancements" made in medicine are only available to those that can afford it...leaving out the majority of the population of the world...that "cream of the crop" will get narrower and narrower...until only a handful of people will be able to "live forever" and will be the cyborgs of the future. These people may already be out there...it is interesting how most "super wealthy" people do not die of cancer, or other ailments the rest of us are plagued by...
The parasite class are probably all on adrenochrome - we know it's in the open that they have youthful blood transfusions now. Let them live forever as transhumanists, digitising their consciousness for self imposed spiritual subjugation - preventing natural transcendence upon death. I will stay as a bog standard organic human.
Todd, you might enjoy this podcast I recorded with fellow Substack writer Ben Bartee and Joe Jarvis, on transhumanism and AI:
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Funny...you are a trickster, eh?
So who does the transhumanism? Transhumanists, right? Who are the transhumanists, are they people like us? At first glance, It appears that they are human but looking at what they do and not what they say they come across as beings in a human outfit but beyond that outfit there is not much humanity left or there was not much humanity in the first place.
As I just commented below, I do not believe the transhumanist movement is for the useless eaters, nor the next notch above them, which maybe most of us shrews fall into. Who knows, if enough people get on that bandwagon, then maybe they eventually will be welcomed into the club. I don't think they want to get rid of the whole population, so I am sure many "every day ordinary people" will join the ranks of the transhumanists...but that will still be a small percentage of the world population...I am not sure if most opulent Westerners realize they are part of a very small percentage of the world population which is basically destitute.
It is clear, as my article presents, that the "rich world" which definitely includes Europe, North America, and what seems to be most of the world (but isn't in sheer numbers) are being ushered into transhumanism...AI advancements, technology in general, obliteration of the arts. It is difficult to tell if this mass movement toward "digitalism" and thus transhumanism is a sign "they" want us in their club, or if it is just a deception, and part of a slow plan to eliminate most people and replace them with machinery and AI. Time will tell.
The Terminator film franchise is a good place to look to see this "plan" implemented. The masses will eventually destroy themselves in this mess, no one really has to do that for them. Read Vonnegut's "Player Piano" for a funny take on it all.
Oh my gosh how this hit home!!! I wrote a comment yesterday on Facebook about how the loss of cursive actually makes people less creative. The physical act of the flow of the hand while writing cursive is connected to both the right and left brain in both logical and ARTISTIC ways. And music! I cannot listen to Mozart without a REAL orchestra with HUMANS playing the instruments! What will happen to humanity if people quit learning to play instruments?!! How tragic. And the telephone calls are not only insulting, but make you feel completely unimportant. Now I am required to sign into my doctor appointment on my phone before I even go there. I can't see well enough to do this and the receptionists are annoyed that they have to actually help me in the traditional ways. Yes, not only is it depressing, but it is inhuman and makes us feel helplessly alone. I do understand that there are just too many people and not enough helpers so this will probably just keep on, but I think younger people just go along with all this digital life with blind acceptance. I also recently have been shocked by ads in The Atlantic advertising gentle biotech enhancements to the human body to increase life experience. Good Grief.
You said it...exactly...
I am so pleased people "get this"...you explain this so well, it is so clear that you understand what the article was about. I was worried that my ideas would be considered too "out there" and not really pertinent. Thank you.
I left my career as a film composer primarily because I just couldn't stand what I was seeing...I used to say the soul was taken out of music if not played by real humans...people thought I was crazy.
And thank you too for your comments on the phone situation...that validation was very welcome...
And I have to say it isn't about "too many people and not enough helpers"...that too is all fabricated, just like climate warming is fabricated. It may appear that way because young people will not settle for lesser paying jobs...it is cheaper for them to lay on their parents' couch and watch Netflix all day...and it doesn't help that they can't afford a place to live, other than mom and dad's, because rent is insane...and jobs don't pay enough...whatever...round and round and round.
Please share my articles on your social media!! Send them via email to friends!! I need this stuff to get out there so I can't keep at it!
And lastly, a comment on an inability to produce cursive writing. Not having learned how to write cursively means you cannot take notes in a real-time situation, producing an inordinate dependence upon digital representation of reality for future reference. It has to either be recorded, which precludes the distillation of verbiage into cogent points worth noting (which is, of course, the whole point of taking notes, as this is where learning occurs!), or reduced to a set of bare bones PowerPoint slides, which too miss any nuance and wipe from memory most details that render an argument clear and relevant to human cognition. I also wonder, but haven't the neurophysiological knowledge to address, whether cursive writing engages different parts of the brain that printing does not stimulate, thereby reducing a particular kind of intelligence, perhaps one associated with analog awareness and its sequelae- context, meaning, morality and empathy.
On another note entirely, children who cannot read an analog clock lose context of their activities within a spectrum of time. That is, they cannot relate what is actually happening to what comes before or after, and, as Weber pointed out over a hundred years ago, understanding of social behavior only arises when activities are seen in a social context. That means if you can't read an analog clock, chancez are you don't understand your actions except as isolated from a web of meanin. This precludes any kind of moral yardstick, as morality rests entirely in contextual understanding of specific moments in time. Ergo, indeed, digital-think produces a Foucauldian existence without any touchstone of morality, reality, or meaning. Without these aspects, how can a life have meaning? (And now I am sure there will be a chorus of existential objectors, claiming that no such meaning is ever possible, which, of course, it isn't in such an a posteriori universe.)
Wow again...this is a perfect extension to the article! Thanks so much, I hope everyone reads this!
What seems to me to be commonly missed is this idea that digital is innocuous. It's not so much a case of not recognizing human variations, which are infinite, within any given paradigmatic spectrum of behavior, but of forcing people into behavioral boxes. If certain behaviors are not recognized for long enough, they cease to exist because they cease to be conceptually constructed as a phenomenon apart from the background field. For example, in medicine if a list of checkboxes does not describe a patient's' symptoms, these symptoms cease to exist, both in the minds of the clinician and the patient, and certainly historically, as they never make it into the documentation. In the obstetric world, where I spent several decades, women's prenatal and intrapartum progress were forced into fitting into certain time limits, the limits of which were determined by statistical manipulation that produced an artifactual woman. Consequently, if an individual woman and her labor persisted outside these artifactual parameters (too slow OR too fast), then she was assaulted with risk- and harm-inducing interventions so as to make her behavior fit within the supposed normal guidelines. The ancients recognized what this was, but we don't: it is a Procrustean bed, where if you're too tall they cut off your feet, and if you're too short they stretch you on the rack. Right now we are being cut off and mangled and stretched in order to fit a particularly manageable bureaucratic grid of artifactual beings, of which there is probably not one single example. all bureaucratic grids, that attempt to characterize individuals as a set of yes or no ticks in a list of supposedly definitive check boxes, end up wiping out recognition of entire sectors of individuals whose profiles do not fit the states definition. This has long been a recognized phenomenon in sociological and political theory.
WOW...this is EXACTLY what I was getting at!! I think I've written another article that goes into some detail about this, (your comment about a symptom ceasing to exist if it isn't on the checklist is brilliant).
Thank you so much for this, it is a great addition to the article.
You hit me in one of my favorite subjects, Todd. At some point in my life (several years ago) I used to think that reality (including humanity) was digital. My idea came from studying some eastern philosophies and encountering the concept of Yin-Yang (apparently digital). Also the concept of light consisting of discrete "photons" reinforced the idea. But, I have revised my thinking, and I am convinced that reality (and humanity) is analog. The digital construct is just a convenient idea that helps us understand and classify certain phenomena or observations in convenient "boxes". But, as you illustrated, "there are an infinite number of points between any two other points". The world is analog... we construct digital machines, which are useful tools; but machines cannot be human.
Let's not get started talking about analog and digital in music...
Ha!!! (music) no, that's a big one!
I think reductionist science wants to reduce it all down to positive and negative charges...a dualistic concept which is indeed digital. Obviously they are leaving out the "unseen"...there is a possibility that the material aspects of the material world can indeed be reduced down to ones and zeroes...but again, there is more to this than the material world. Soul and spirit exists within the material, it flows all through it, so we can say that nature is analog, life is analog, without the soul and spirit material particles would not be able to stay together! Quite literally!
Oliver Reiser's 'The World Sensorium' provides early insights into what researcher Alison McDowell today describes as the 'ant-computer'.
Tolkien mentions 'One Ring to rule them all..', the question now for all of us is to identify the lynch-pin of this corrupt system and focus our energy.
Absolutely!
I wanted to connect with my 30 something niece and she suggested zoom. I refused and told her that I don't do digital. She changed her mind within 24 hours and we met together for a lovely visit and lunch. My advice is to reject the offerings of the digital universe as much as possible and demand I.R.L. - In Real Life.
Thank you...I personally have to start practicing what I preach...and I am impressed you did what you did. I have done some things like this, but need to do more...i.e., I refused to continue with a group on Zoom that used to meet in person...and I refuse to have doctor's visits on Zoom...It is a long road ahead of us...
What I find most interesting is people's obliviousness to phasing themselves out of a job, in real-time. With no other options at 6am for coffee on the road, I reluctantly popped into a McDonalds. The staff were encouraging everyone to use the automated touch screen towers to order. It was not busy. I said I wanted to deal with a human, and the girl walked out from behind the cashier and said she'd help me to use the touchscreen. She refused to serve me at the cashier. I walked out.
I couldn't agree more. I just read a piece about how AI could replace many doctors, particularly since so many of them just check boxes now and algorithmic diagnoses are often as accurate as human diagnoses. Radiology can already be outsourced to doctors in India and yet these medical "experts" are seemingly blind to the fact they could be replaced. Hey, maybe the AI would be less condescending than human MDs!
It's amazing that most humans can't project a few moves ahead and understand that they are creating their own digital prison camp. Convenience comes at a very high price but it seems that only those of us over a certain age are able to see how the digital world can quickly shift from convenience to total control...not to mention how talking to an imperfect human on the other end of the phone line was more often than not far more convenient than the infinite loop customer "service" has become.
That sounds interesting - could you share the link to the piece please? You might find this piece I wrote eye opening - How AI could be used to cover up Genocide:
https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/could-ai-be-used-to-cover-up-genocide?r=16xjwn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
It is also shocking that people do not realize that the whole point of being human is being human. It is not just a fear of being replaced by machines, which is indeed formidable, but it is a matter of soon not having anything human to relate to. People seem to think that that would just be fine...no love, no intuitive connection, no empathy, no meaning....why is all this so easy for people to just cast out of their lives?
Wow...you are my hero!! What a wonderful story...but also sad and disheartening...it reminds me of making prisoners dig their own graves...literally...
And I totally agree how people seem totally oblivious to this self elimination. I think part of our brainwashing is to think that as we get more advanced it means we will become freer with no job to do...and just sit around and "be happy."
Yes, the useless eaters embrace the 'upskilling' of their uselessness until they are 'free' and 'happy' and serfs.
Transhumanism is just warming up.
Keep up the good content Todd, found your articles via OffG.
Thank you...thanks to all of you who support this by validating what I write. I find it fascinating that we all basically see everything the same way!!
Transhumanisim is really just for the elite. Even today, the "advancements" made in medicine are only available to those that can afford it...leaving out the majority of the population of the world...that "cream of the crop" will get narrower and narrower...until only a handful of people will be able to "live forever" and will be the cyborgs of the future. These people may already be out there...it is interesting how most "super wealthy" people do not die of cancer, or other ailments the rest of us are plagued by...
The parasite class are probably all on adrenochrome - we know it's in the open that they have youthful blood transfusions now. Let them live forever as transhumanists, digitising their consciousness for self imposed spiritual subjugation - preventing natural transcendence upon death. I will stay as a bog standard organic human.
Todd, you might enjoy this podcast I recorded with fellow Substack writer Ben Bartee and Joe Jarvis, on transhumanism and AI:
https://open.substack.com/pub/nicholascreed/p/transhumanism-merging-man-and-machine?r=16xjwn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web