{"id":94128,"date":"2019-07-25T21:03:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T04:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/why-upgrading-humanity-is-a-transhumanist-myth"},"modified":"2019-07-25T21:03:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T04:03:16","slug":"why-upgrading-humanity-is-a-transhumanist-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/why-upgrading-humanity-is-a-transhumanist-myth","title":{"rendered":"Why \u2018upgrading\u2019 humanity is a transhumanist myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BigThinkdotcom\/videos\/395520691074983\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Click on photo to start video.<\/p>\n<p>Though some computer engineers claim to know what human consciousness is, many neuroscientists say that we\u2019re nowhere close to understanding what it is \u2014 or its source.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, bestselling author Douglas Rushkoff gives the \u201ctranshumanist myth\u201d \u2014 the belief that A.I. will replace humans \u2014 a reality check. Is it hubristic to upload people\u2019s minds to silicon chips, or re-create their consciousness with algorithms, when we still know so little about what it means to be human?<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about Rushkoff\u2019s perspective on this issue in his new book, Team Human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on photo to start video. Though some computer engineers claim to know what human consciousness is, many neuroscientists say that we\u2019re nowhere close to understanding what it is \u2014 or its source. In this video, bestselling author Douglas Rushkoff gives the \u201ctranshumanist myth\u201d \u2014 the belief that A.I. will replace humans \u2014 a reality [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94128","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}