{"id":79695,"date":"2018-06-18T02:02:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T09:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/elon-musk-and-state-of-minds-transhumanism-philosophy"},"modified":"2018-06-21T13:02:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T20:02:59","slug":"elon-musk-and-state-of-minds-transhumanism-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/elon-musk-and-state-of-minds-transhumanism-philosophy","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk and \u2018State of Mind\u2019s\u2019 Transhumanism Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-and-state-of-minds-transhumanism-philosophy.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be human in world of increasingly powerful technology? This is a question video games have grappled with, most recently in the \u201cDeus Ex\u201d franchise and the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/e3\/\" id=\"auto-tag_e3\" data-tag=\"e3\">E3<\/a> show-stealing \u201cCyberpunk 2077.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/daedalic\/\" id=\"auto-tag_daedalic\" data-tag=\"daedalic\">Daedalic<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/state-of-mind\/\" id=\"auto-tag_state-of-mind\" data-tag=\"state-of-mind\">State of Mind<\/a>\u201d approaches the topic in a different, more philosophical way. Guns and body mods aren\u2019t the order of the day. Rather, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2013\/film\/markets-festivals\/labor-day-review-telluride-film-festival-1200592670\/\" id=\"related_article_link_state-of-mind\" data-tag=\"state-of-mind\">State of Mind<\/a>\u201d is a narrative adventure that considers how far the human race will go to trade dystopia for utopia.<\/p>\n<p>Creative lead Martin Gantef\u00f6hr is an avid follower of transhumanist theory, and how humanity will evolve over the coming decades as scientists pursue the singularity. Transhumanism explores the intersection of people and technology, with the ultimate goal giving all people access to technology that leads to an egalitarian utopia.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/gaming\/features\/state-of-mind-philosophy-1202847303\/\">https:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/gaming\/features\/state-of-mind-philosophy-1202847303\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it mean to be human in world of increasingly powerful technology? This is a question video games have grappled with, most recently in the \u201cDeus Ex\u201d franchise and the upcoming E3 show-stealing \u201cCyberpunk 2077.\u201d Daedalic\u2019s \u201cState of Mind\u201d approaches the topic in a different, more philosophical way. Guns and body mods aren\u2019t the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,64,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-singularity","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79695","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79768,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79695\/revisions\/79768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}