{"id":213599,"date":"2025-05-09T01:04:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/distorting-transhumanism-at-meridian-magazine"},"modified":"2025-05-09T01:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:04:31","slug":"distorting-transhumanism-at-meridian-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/distorting-transhumanism-at-meridian-magazine","title":{"rendered":"Distorting Transhumanism at Meridian Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/distorting-transhumanism-at-meridian-magazine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meridian Magazine positions itself as a publication for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest Mormon denomination. I don\u2019t know much about Meridian or the people behind it. But today I learned that they\u2019re willing to publish a fear-mongering distortion of Transhumanism, \u201cHuman 2.0 Is Here \u2014 And You Didn\u2019t Even Notice\u201d by Alexis Tarkaleson. Despite their positioning, I wish to make make clear that such behavior is not aligned with the values that the Church advocates.<\/p>\n<p>Tarkaleson says \u201cmind uploading\u201d is an outlandish tale. What\u2019s her take on tales of transfiguration and resurrection? Are those equally outlandish? Surely she\u2019s aware that those doctrines require the possibility of mind (or spirit body) moving from one physical body to another, <a href=\"https:\/\/lincoln.metacannon.net\/2015\/07\/mormon-bodies-and-mind-uploading.html\">consistent with hypotheses of mind uploading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How about cryonics, yet another outlandish tale she identifies? I\u2019m curious to know what she thinks about the <a href=\"https:\/\/lincoln.metacannon.net\/2015\/06\/7-reasons-cryonics-is-compatible-with.html\">Church\u2019s advocacy to collect genealogy and preserve family history<\/a>, with intent to facilitate redemption of the dead. And what about proxy rituals that we perform for the dead? Most of the world probably thinks the Church\u2019s practices in these areas are at least as outlandish as those of cryonicists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meridian Magazine positions itself as a publication for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest Mormon denomination. I don\u2019t know much about Meridian or the people behind it. But today I learned that they\u2019re willing to publish a fear-mongering distortion of Transhumanism, \u201cHuman 2.0 Is Here \u2014 And You Didn\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2017,269,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryonics","category-life-extension","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213599","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\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}