{"id":131625,"date":"2021-12-02T07:24:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T15:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/cyber-spirituality-why-silicon-valleys-technologists-are-euphoric-about-the-prospects-of-self-divinization"},"modified":"2021-12-02T07:24:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T15:24:22","slug":"cyber-spirituality-why-silicon-valleys-technologists-are-euphoric-about-the-prospects-of-self-divinization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/cyber-spirituality-why-silicon-valleys-technologists-are-euphoric-about-the-prospects-of-self-divinization","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Spirituality: Why Silicon Valley\u2019s technologists are euphoric about the prospects of self-divinization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cyber-spirituality-why-silicon-valleys-technologists-are-euphoric-about-the-prospects-of-self-divinization2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If history is a guide, people always need to believe in something bigger than themselves, in higher powers, so I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if in the interim, we might get all sorts of movements, including the religious ones. But as opposed to rigid religious doctrines, spirituality most of the time requires finding your own personal path to God and enlightenment through introspection and spiritual growth. And that, I believe, would be the key going forward. Religiosity is unavoidably cultural, spirituality is, in contrast, a higher-order transcendental metaphysics, cognized subjectively.<\/p>\n<p>#CyberSpirituality #SiliconValley #Singularity #Metaverse #Theogenesis #Cybergods #Cybertheism<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Futurist and evolutionary cyberneticist Alex Vikoulov was recently interviewed by Magda Gacyk, San Francisco-based correspondent for Wyborcza, the most prestigious daily newspaper in Poland, and her article \u201cProphecies of the Tech Spirituality: A New Gospel of Silicon Valley\u201d appeared in the last Saturday issue of November.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s their conversation (shortened for readability):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If history is a guide, people always need to believe in something bigger than themselves, in higher powers, so I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if in the interim, we might get all sorts of movements, including the religious ones. But as opposed to rigid religious doctrines, spirituality most of the time requires finding your own personal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}