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Problems of Transhumanism: Belief in Progress vs. Rational Uncertainty

J. Hughes

Ethical Technology

March 01, 2010

Most Enlightenment thinkers believed in the inevitability of human political and technological progress, transforming the Christian expectation that history was predetermined to end in the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth into a conviction that humanity would be able to continually improve itself. But the scientific worldview does not support historical inevitability, only uncertainty.

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Posted by Mark Thompson on 03/03 at 11:58 AM

There is so much more to this than you guys or most people understand. Without that understanding, I think the future does not look good for humanity. As a result, I thinks the odds at this moment favour extinction or at least regression. However, there is always the possibility that this might change.

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