Heaven on Earth: The Mind Uploading Project as Secular Eschatology
This paper addresses the greatest aspiration of the transhumanist movement: achieving immortal life through a procedure known as mind uploading. This procedure consists in keeping our minds fully and indefinitely operative after death by transferring them to a non-biological substrate that allows ma...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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Theology and science
Year: 2019, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 403-416 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CF Christianity and Science NBE Anthropology NBQ Eschatology VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Myth of Prometheus
B Transhumanism B mind uploading B secular eschatology B Immortality B Christian Tradition |
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| Summary: | This paper addresses the greatest aspiration of the transhumanist movement: achieving immortal life through a procedure known as mind uploading. This procedure consists in keeping our minds fully and indefinitely operative after death by transferring them to a non-biological substrate that allows man to be liberated from his bodily confinement. My main thesis is that the mind uploading project presupposes a secular eschatology, consummating the Promethean utopia according to which human beings could redeem themselves, expelling God definitively from their existential horizon. On this basis, the paper offers meaningful contrasts between the uploading as secular eschatology and the Christian tradition. |
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| ISSN: | 1474-6719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology and science
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2019.1632554 |