Core Dump

Scientists studying a group of stars made an astonishing but "serendipitous" discovery when they realized that Gamma Columbae, a fairly average celestial body, might actually be the "stripped pulsating core of a massive star," according to a study published this week in Nature Astronomy.

If true, that means Gamma Columbae is missing the envelope, or vast shroud of gas, that hides a star's nuclear fusion powered core.

What caused the stripping of this atmospheric envelope is not definitively known, but the scientists posit that Gamma Columbae running out of hydrogen could've caused its envelope to expand and swallow up a nearby star, likely its binary partner. But in the middle of that relatively common process, something appears to have horrifically gone wrong and ejected the envelope — and possibly even led to the two stars merging.

Naked Core

Before the disaster, the scientists believe Gamma Columbae could have been up to 12 times the mass of our Sun. Now, it's a comparatively meager 5 stellar masses.

Although a naked stellar core missing its envelope has been theorized to exist, it's never been observed in a star this size.

"Having a naked stellar core of such a mass is unique so far," said study co-author Norbert Pryzbilla, head of the Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics at the University of Innsbruck, in an interview with Vice.

Astronomers had an idea of what the cores of massive and low mass stars looked like, Pryzbilla continued, but there wasn't "much evidence" for cores of masses in between.

Star Power

It's an exceedingly rare find because the star is in a "a short-lived post-stripping structural re-adjustment phase" that will only last 10,000 years, according to the study.

That's "long for us humans but in astronomical timescales, very, very short," Przybilla told Vice. "It will always stay as a peculiar object."

The opportunity to study such a rarely exposed stellar core could provide scientists an invaluable look into the evolution of binary star systems. And whatever astronomers learn from the star, it's a fascinating glimpse at stellar destruction at a nearly incomprehensible scale.

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Rock of Riches

After disappointing setbacks and a delay over the summer, NASA says it's finally reviving its mission to explore a tantalizing and giant space rock lurking deep in the Asteroid Belt.

Known as 16 Psyche, the NASA-targeted asteroid comprises a full one percent of the mass of the Asteroid Bet, and is speculated to be the core of an ancient planet. But Psyche's size isn't what intrigues scientists so much as its metal-rich composition, believed to be harboring a wealth of iron, nickel, and gold worth an estimated $10 quintillion — easily exceeding the worth of the Earth's entire economy. Although, to be clear, they're not interested in the metals' monetary value but rather its possibly planetary origins.

Back On Track

Initially slated to launch in August 2022, NASA's aptly named Psyche spacecraft became plagued with a persistent flight software issue that led the space agency to miss its launch window that closed on October 11.

But after surviving an independent review determining whether the mission should be scrapped or not, NASA has formally announced that its spacecraft's journey to Psyche will be going ahead, planned to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket as early as October 10, 2023.

"I'm extremely proud of the Psyche team," said Laurie Leshin, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a statement. "During this review, they have demonstrated significant progress already made toward the future launch date. I am confident in the plan moving forward and excited by the unique and important science this mission will return."

Although the new launch date is only a little over a year late, the expected arrival at the asteroid Psyche is set back by over three years — 2029 instead of 2026 — due to having to wait for another opportunity to slingshot off of Mars' gravity.

Peering Into a Planet

Once it arrives, the NASA spacecraft will orbit around the asteroid and probe it with an array of instruments, including a multispectral imager, gamma ray and neutron spectrometers, and a magnetometer, according to the agency.

In doing so, scientists hope to determine if the asteroid is indeed the core of a nascent planet known as a planetesimal. If it is, it could prove to be an invaluable opportunity to understand the interior of terrestrial planets like our own.

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Fill 'Er Up

A team of Chinese researchers say they managed to convert actual lunar regolith samples into a source of rocket fuel and oxygen — a potential gamechanger for future space explorers hoping to make use of in-situ resources to fuel up for their return journey.

The researchers found that the lunar soil samples can act as a catalyst to convert carbon dioxide and water from astronauts' bodies and environment into methane and oxygen, as detailed in a paper published in the National Science Review.

"In situ resource utilization of lunar soil to achieve extraterrestrial fuel and oxygen production is vital for the human to carry out Moon exploitation missions," lead author Yujie Xiong said in a new statement about the work. "Considering that there are limited human resources at extraterrestrial sites, we proposed to employ the robotic system to perform the whole electrocatalytic CO2 conversion system setup."

That means we could have a much better shot at carrying out longer duration explorations of the lunar surface in the near future.

Set It, Forget It

According to the paper, which builds on previous research suggesting lunar soil can generate oxygen and fuel, this process can be completed using uncrewed systems, even in the absence of astronauts.

In an experiment, the team used samples from China's Chang'e-5 mission, which landed in Inner Mongolia back in December 2020 — the first lunar soil returned to Earth since 1976.

The Moon soil effectively acted as a catalyst, enabling the electrocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide into methane and oxygen.

"No significant difference can be observed between the manned and unmanned systems, which further suggests the high possibility of imitating our proposed system in extraterrestrial sites and proves the feasibility of further optimizing catalyst recipes on the Moon," the researchers conclude in their paper.

Liquified

But there's one big hurdle to still overcome: liquifying carbon dioxide is anything but easy given the Moon's frosty atmosphere, as condensing the gas requires a significant amount of heat, as New Scientist reported earlier this year.

Still, it's a tantalizing prospect: an autonomous machine chugging away, pumping out oxygen and fuel for future visitors. But for now, it's not much more than a proof of concept.

READ MORE: Scientists investigate using lunar soils to sustainably supply oxygen and fuels on the moon [Science China Press]

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Cat Burglar

Cats are known for not really minding their own business, getting their furry paws on just about anything they can.

And it turns out, this makes them effective vectors for DNA evidence, according to a study published last month in the journal Forensic Science International: Genetic Supplement Series.

Researchers collaborating with the Victoria Police Forensic Services Department in Australia found detectable human DNA in 80 percent of the samples collected from 20 pet cats, with 70 percent of the samples strong enough that they could be linked to a person of interest in a crime scene investigation.

"Collection of human DNA needs to become very important in crime scene investigations, but there is a lack of data on companion animals such as cats and dogs in their relationship to human DNA transfer," said study lead author Heidi Monkman, a forensic scientist at Flinders University, in a statement.

"These companion animals can be highly relevant in assessing the presence and activities of the inhabitants of the household, or any recent visitors to the scene."

Here Kitty

One possible takeaway is that cats — and other companion pets like dogs — could be harboring DNA that could help solve a case.

The bigger issue, though, is that pets could introduce foreign DNA that muddles a crime scene, possibly leading to an innocent person being implicated. A pet could be carrying the DNA of a complete stranger, or it might bring the DNA of its owner into a crime scene that they had nothing to do with.

Monkman's colleague and co-author of the paper, Maria Goray, is an experienced crime scene investigator and an expert in DNA transfer. She believes their findings could help clear up how pets might tamper a crime scene by carrying outside DNA.

"Are these DNA findings a result of a criminal activity or could they have been transferred and deposited at the scene via a pet?" Goray asked.

It's a question worth asking — especially because innocent people have been jailed off botched DNA science far too often.

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You know that "research" going around saying humans are going to evolve to have hunchbacks and claws because of the way we use our smartphones? Though our posture could certainly use some work, you'll be glad to know that it's just lazy spam intended to juice search engine results.

Let's back up. Today the Daily Mail published a viral story about "how humans may look in the year 3000." Among its predictions: hunched backs, clawed hands, a second eyelid, a thicker skull and a smaller brain.

Sure, that's fascinating! The only problem? The Mail's only source is a post published a year ago by the renowned scientists at... uh... TollFreeForwarding.com, a site that sells, as its name suggests, virtual phone numbers.

If the idea that phone salespeople are purporting to be making predictions about human evolution didn't tip you off, this "research" doesn't seem very scientific at all. Instead, it more closely resembles what it actually is — a blog post written by some poor grunt, intended to get backlinks from sites like the Mail that'll juice TollFreeForwarding's position in search engine results.

To get those delicious backlinks, the top minds at TollFreeForwarding leveraged renders of a "future human" by a 3D model artist. The result of these efforts is "Mindy," a creepy-looking hunchback in black skinny jeans (which is how you can tell she's from a different era).

Grotesque model reveals what humans could look like in the year 3000 due to our reliance on technology

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"To fully realize the impact everyday tech has on us, we sourced scientific research and expert opinion on the subject," the TollFreeForwarding post reads, "before working with a 3D designer to create a future human whose body has physically changed due to consistent use of smartphones, laptops, and other tech."

Its sources, though, are dubious. Its authority on spinal development, for instance, is a "health and wellness expert" at a site that sells massage lotion. His highest academic achievement? A business degree.

We could go on and on about TollFreeForwarding's dismal sourcing — some of which looks suspiciously like even more SEO spam for entirely different clients — but you get the idea.

It's probably not surprising that the this gambit for clicks took off among dingbats on Twitter. What is somewhat disappointing is that it ended up on StudyFinds, a generally reliable blog about academic research. This time, though, for inscrutable reasons it treated this egregious SEO spam as a legitimate scientific study.

The site's readers, though, were quick to call it out, leading to a comically enormous editor's note appended to the story.

"Our content is intended to stir debate and conversation, and we always encourage our readers to discuss why or why not they agree with the findings," it reads in part. "If you heavily disagree with a report — please debunk to your delight in the comments below."

You heard them! Get debunking, people.

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Spaceplane Buddy

After launching into orbit roughly three months ago, China's top-secret spaceplane has released a mysterious object, which is now circling the Earth behind it, SpaceNews reports.

There's very little we know about China's "reusable experimental spacecraft," except that it launched atop a Long March 2F rocket back in August. We don't know its purpose, what it looks like, or what cargo it was carrying during launch — but it's an intriguing development, nonetheless, for China's reusable launch platform.

Mysterious Object

The object was released between October 24 and October 31, according to tracking data being analyzed by the US Space Force's 18th pace Defense Squadron.

We can only hazard a guess as to what the mysterious object's purpose is. According to Harvard astronomer and space tracker Jonathan McDowell, it "may be a service module, possibly indicating an upcoming deorbit burn."

Based on the size and weight of payloads Long March rockets usually carry, China's mysterious spaceplane is likely similar to the Air Force's X-37B spaceplane, which is similarly shrouded in mystery and currently on its sixth mission.

We also don't know when the Chinese model will make its return back to Earth, but given recent activity at the Lop Nur base in Xinjiang suggests, it may land there in the near future, according to the report.

It's a puzzling new development for China's secretive spacecraft — but it does raise the possibility of a renewed interest in spaceplanes, a potentially affordable and reusable way to launch payloads into orbit.

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Jeff Bezos' former housekeeper is suing the Amazon founder for workplace discrimination that she says forced her to literally climb out out the window of his house to use the bathroom.

In the suit, filed this week in a Washington state court, the former housekeeper claimed that she and Bezos' other household staff were not provided with legally-mandated eating or restroom breaks, and that because there was no "readily accessible bathroom" for them to use, they had to clamber out a laundry room window to get to one.

In the complaint, lawyers for the ex-housekeeper, who is described as having worked for wealthy families for nearly 20 years, wrote that household staff were initially allowed to use a small bathroom in the security room of Bezos' main house, but "this soon stopped... because it was decided that housekeepers using the bathroom was a breach of security protocol."

The suit also alleges that housekeepers in the billionaire's employ "frequently developed Urinary Tract Infections" that they believed was related to not being able to use the bathroom when they needed to at work.

"There was no breakroom for the housekeepers," the complaint adds. "Even though Plaintiff worked 10, 12, and sometimes 14 hours a day, there was no designated area for her to sit down and rest."

The housekeeper — who, like almost all of her coworkers, is Latino — was allegedly not aware that she was entitled to breaks for lunch or rest, and was only able to have a lunch break when Bezos or his family were not on the premises, the lawsuit alleges.

The Washington Post owner has denied his former housekeeper's claims of discrimination through an attorney.

"We have investigated the claims, and they lack merit," Harry Korrell, a Bezos attorney, told Insider of the suit. "[The former employee] made over six figures annually and was the lead housekeeper."

He added that the former housekeeper "was responsible for her own break and meal times, and there were several bathrooms and breakrooms available to her and other staff."

"The evidence will show that [the former housekeeper] was terminated for performance reasons," he continued. "She initially demanded over $9M, and when the company refused, she decided to file this suit."

As the suit was just filed and may well end in a settlement, it'll likely be a long time, if ever, before we find out what really happened at Bezos' house — but if we do, it'll be a fascinating peek behind the curtain at the home life of one of the world's most powerful and wealthy men.

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Observatory Offline

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory in Chile has been hit with a cyberattack that has taken its website offline and forced it to suspend all observations, authorities there said.

Even email services were limited in the aftermath, illustrating the broad impact of the hack.

Nested high up on a plateau in the Chilean Andes at over 16,000 feet above sea level, ALMA is one of the most powerful and advanced radio telescopes in the world. Notably, ALMA helped take the first image of a black hole in 2019, in a collaborative effort that linked radio observatories worldwide into forming the Event Horizon Telescope.

Thankfully, ALMA's impressive arsenal of 66 high-precision antennas, each nearly 40 feet in diameter, was not compromised, the observatory said, nor was any of the scientific data those instruments collected.

In High Places

What makes ALMA so invaluable is its specialty in observing the light of the cooler substances of the cosmos, namely gas and dust. That makes ALMA a prime candidate for documenting the fascinating formations of planets and stars when they first emerge amidst clouds of gas.

Since going fully operational in 2013, it's become the largest ground-based astronomical project in the world, according to the European Southern Observatory, ALMA's primary operators.

So ALMA going offline is a distressing development, especially to the thousands of astronomers worldwide that rely on its observations and the some 300 experts working onsite. Getting it up and running is obviously a top priority, but the observatory said in a followup tweet that "it is not yet possible to estimate a date for a return to regular activities."

As of now, there's no information available on who the hackers were, or exactly how they conducted the attack. Their motivations, too, remain a mystery.

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November 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) The COVID-19 pandemic was manufactured by the worlds elites as part of a plan to globally advance transhumanism literally, the fusion of human beings with technology in an attempt to alter human nature itself and create a superhuman being and an earthly paradise, according to a Peruvian academic and expert in technology.

This dystopian nightmare scenario is no longer the stuff of science fiction, but an integral part of the proposed post-pandemic Great Reset, Dr. Miklos Lukacs de Pereny said at a recent summit on COVID-19.

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Indeed, to the extent that implementing the transhumanist agenda is possible, it requires the concentration of political and economic power in the hands of a global elite and the dependence of people on the state, said Lukacs.

Thats precisely the aim of the Great Reset, promoted by German economist Klaus Schwab, CEO and founder of World Economic Forum, along with billionaire philanthropists George Soros and Bill Gates and other owners, managers, and shareholders of Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Finance who meet at the WEF retreats at Davos, Switzerland, contended Lukacs.

Transhumanism is far from a benign doctrine. Rather, it is at complete enmity with Christianity, Lukacs pointed out during the virtual in Truth Over Fear Summit organized by California-based Catholic writer and broadcaster Patrick Coffin.

Transhumanists take science as their religion and believe in a philosophy of absolute relativism that claims that individuals can change reality at will, and they seek to relativize the human being and turn it into a putty that can be modified or molded to our taste and our desire and by rejecting those limits nature or God have placed on us.

Transhumanism therefore requires the destruction of the Judeo-Christian morality, which is based on absolute principles and values.

Those raising alarm about the Great Reset often overlook the crucial role of technology in the plans of the meta-capitalists, contended Lukacs, who has Ph.D. in management from the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) from the University of Manchester.

The COVID-19 pandemic was just another social engineering project deliberately planned and implemented by predatory meta capitalism to achieve the ultimate end: redefining and reconfiguring the human nature and condition, he argued in a presentation in Spanish.

I have the firm conviction that this pandemic has been manufactured and its purpose is none other than to initiate, as they say, or implement the Great Reset, which will open the door to the advancement of the transhumanist agenda, he said.

Indeed, WEFs Schwab has been promoting the Great Reset as a way to harness the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a term he coined, which, he declared in January 2016, will affect the very essence of our human experience.

Schwab described the Fourth Industrial Revolution then as a fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines among the physical, digital and biological spheres, Lukacs said.

Those technologies include genetic engineering such as CRISPR genetic editing, artificial intelligence (A.I.), robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, and quantum computing.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is nothing other than the implementation of transhumanism on a global level, emphasized Lukacs.

Transhumanism as a political ideology and cultural movement was defined in 1998 by Swedish economist Nick Bostrom, then a professor at Oxford, and David Pearce, a British philosopher, who that year founded the World Transhumanist Association.

More recently, Yuval Noah Harari, the Israeli historian and author of Homo Deus, who is regarded as a great visionary, has been promoting transhumanism.

Transhumanists propose to use technology to alter human nature to produce human beings with super longevity, super intelligence, super well-being, Lukacs said.

They reject the Christian belief in absolute truth, and that God created human person in His image and likeness, and see absolute values as a brake for their pretensions of transhumanist and globalist progressivism.

Thats why the approval of abortion is key to understanding why we are entering fully into this transhumanist agenda of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Lukacs said.

When abortion was approved, the political, economic order and moral values on which Western civilization is based collapsed.

Abortion means nothing other than the transition of the human being from a subject of rights to an object of commercialization, to an object of experimentation, he said.

Life ceases to have an inherent value, an inherent dignity. It becomes an object of consumption, an object of production, and this aligns perfectly with the goal of transhumanists to experiment with the human being.

Transhumanism is a struggle against those propositions of absolute values, said Lukacs, and what it embodies in progressivism is absolute relativism.

Evidence that absolute relativism has caught hold in the Western world is the rapid and widespread rise in trangenderism.

Lukacs also noted cases of transspecisim, transageism, transableism, and transracism.

Examples of these attempts to reshape ones reality at will include the American known as Lizard Man, the Canadian man living as a six-year-old, the British woman who blinded herself because she wanted to be disabled, and the German woman who injected herself with melatonin to darken her skin to identify as black.

These are previous states of transhumanism, a kind of accustoming, especially of the new generations, to accept this diversity, Lukacs said.

While many transhumanist proposals are rooted in science fiction, Lukacs pointed out they now have the technology to attempt to realize their mad aspirations.

Transhumanists propose to increase longevity by using CRISPR genetic editing, which has been used to triple the lifespan of mice. Thus, using this technique on human beings, it is conceivable that people could live to the age of 200 or 300 years old, he said.

They propose to increase human intelligence by planting chips in people that have greater processing capacity than the human brain.

An example is Elon Musks NeuraLink, which is an interface that is applied to the cerebral cortex and which Musk says will help people with Alzheimers or epilepsy, but which Lukacs speculates could open the door to neuro-hackers.

There is also the post-humanist school of transhumanism, of which economist Bostrom is a proponent.

Bostrom proposes that at some point it will not even be necessary to have a physical body, but we will be a set of information, that we will be able to upload our thoughts to the Cloud, that we will be able to form a great collective intelligence with other human beings, Lukac said.

As for the promise of super wellbeing, philosopher Pearce said it was the hedonist imperative to genetically modify us to aspire to super well-being.

What Pearce is saying is that through genetic modification, were going to be virtuous human beings, and that we have to forget about pain and suffering, we have to get rid of those genes that make us aggressive, violent, jealous, that force us to fight and kill each other, said Lukacs.

When you put all these things into the balance, what you are realizing is what you are looking at is literally the destruction of human beings, of Homo sapiens, and their conversion to Homo deus.

But as with the Great Reset, the elites twist the language and disguise their transhumanist agenda behind vaguely benign phrases, so Schwabs Fourth Industrial Revolution is sold to us as an idea thats not necessarily going to affect us, or that it is progress that will benefit humanity, he said.

However, just as ordinary people will suffer in the Great Reset under the architecture of oppression, as Edward Snowden phrased it, so they will bear the brunt of the experimentation by transhumanists.

Its very worrying because for achieving that kind of dream, many, many mistakes will happen for sure. The burden will be carried by the people that get affected by this in their health, in their lives, in their economic situation and in their psychological or mental state, said Lukacs.

Its a very, very costly experiment. And [the elites] are not going to bear any responsibility for this. Trust me, he told Coffin.

For them, its wonderful. For the rest, this is just dystopian.

Lukacs also contended that the global elites encountered an unexpected roadblock to their plans in U.S. president Donald Trump.

Actually, the structure of power is not that complicated, he told Coffin in an online Q&A session.

At the top are the meta-capitalists or capitalists that have so much financial muscle that they can play beyond the rules of capitalism; actually, they make the rules of capitalism or remake them, he said.

And you have those guys on Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Finance, Big Construction, everything big, the big corporate transnational world. Those are the billionaires who through their philanthropies, their billion-dollar pledges and all this kind of stuff, they funnel money downwards to all the politicians, who are basically rented politicians, they rent them, they run the world for them, he said.

Its really the privatization of power through philanthropy, added Lukacs.

And then, of course, you will have a layer of middle ground or middle level institutions, NGOs, universities, foundations, and then youll go down to grassroots local government. Its a pyramidal structure.

But Trump is one key public figure who could evidently not be rented.

It is so obvious that in the States right now for the past, what, four, five months, a state coup has been in the making. As simple as that. I have no problem in saying it openly, Lukacs told Coffin.

Thats the situation. They have tried to oust a president that was democratically elected because they are desperate. China is still progressing. And their partners in the West, theyre just not catching up. So, they are a little bit desperate. China is not going to wait.

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In his speech at the XIV World Congress of Families (WCF) [full text in video here in Spanish], Cardinal Gerhard Mller sharply criticized transhumanism as an offspring of anthropological nihilism that leads to destruction and death:

Friedrich Nietzsche is the prophet of nihilism. After the death of God he proclaimed the superman who is his own God and creator for himself. All the gods are dead. Now we long for the superman to live. In our days, the historian Yuval Harari offers us a new edition of this program of self-perfection of man as the creator of a superior biotechnical hybrid. In his book Homo Deus, man is his own god. Why does Harari or Friedrich Nietzsche succeed? Why do thinking adults willingly have their bodies dissected or inflate their egos so much that they threaten to explode even as they become cynical gods? The theological answer is simple: anthropological nihilism has its home in the pride of the creature who wants to become like God and establish for himself the difference between good and evil, true and false.

This ideology is reflected in culture and zeitgeist in many ways: on the one hand, there is gender ideology, which combines identity and cultural-political aspects. Abortion also follows logically from the self-deification of man. The utilitarian euthanasia, the so-called mercy killing, also goes along with it. Selective abortion and euthanasia resemble the Nazi era in Germany because human life loses value. All ideological currents of this kind are fruits of anthropological nihilism.

The fiction of a free choice of sex is a denial of Gods will for the human person. God created us as male or female. And that is a good thing. Every human being exists in his or her bodily nature, whether male or female. Gender ideology, which certainly comes under the heading of anthropological nihilism, deprives both men and women of their own possibilities.

The change of sex is an inspiration of the devil. This is the first principle of Christian anthropology. We cannot imagine man as a creature who defines himself. Only modern nihilism can and does, Cardinal Mller added.

The culture of anthropological nihilism will end in the collective suicide of humanity. Atheism is always nihilism, an antihumanism. The fruit of the culture of death is death. Christ overcomes the culture of death, a death that is against the life of children, against marriage and against love. Faith in God opens us to a culture of life in the love of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Why are we freed from the slavery of the perishable to the freedom and glory of the sons and daughters of God? This is the Christian faith, the Cardinal ended to sustained applause.

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Being able to live for ever sounds like a concept that belongs on the pages of a science-fiction novel, one as implausible as time travel or becoming invisible.

However, that could all be about to change, according to a guest at the Dubai Future Forum.

Futurist Dr Jose Cordeiro said anyone who is still alive by the year 2030 has a good chance of living for ever.

Dr Cordeiro told the forum that the key to immortality was finding a way to reverse the ageing process.

We are very close to figuring it out. Ageing is a technical problem that we understand and can probably reverse, he said, speaking to The National on the sidelines of the forum.

Its a likelihood that people will soon be able to live for ever, rather than a possibility.

I personally dont plan to die.

While his remarks might sound like pie in the sky, humans are gradually living longer.

According to James C Riley, professor and author of several books on the global history of health, between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy rose from about 30 years to a global average of 67 years, and more than 75 years in some countries.

This dramatic change was called a health transition, characterised by a change both in how long people expected to live, and how they expected to die.

The increase in life expectancy, with people now living an average of more than 70 years, is often attributed to medical advancements, improved diets and better awareness of harmful habits.

Dr Cordeiro was adamant that immortality is simply the next logical step in the human journey and that stopping the ageing process is a matter of simple engineering.

We never used to be able to fly but now weve even been able to go to the Moon, he said.

One critical event that needs to happen in the race for immortality is reaching what is known as "longevity escape velocity".

This refers to a situation where life expectancy is improving at a rate faster than people are ageing.

That point could be reached as soon as 2029, according to Dr Cordeiro, meaning everyone alive afterwards could theoretically live for ever.

'Turritopsis dohrnii' is a species of biologically immortal jellyfish found worldwide in temperate to tropic waters. Getty

The solution to finding a way to live for ever could lie in our oceans, he said.

Last month, researchers at Spains University of Oviedo sequenced the genome of the Turritopsis dohrnii, more commonly referred to as the immortal jellyfish.

The moniker is no coincidence as the creature, which is smaller than the nail on the smallest human finger, is able to reverse its lifespan.

It does this by shrinking in on itself when physically damaged or experiencing stresses such as starvation, reabsorbing its tentacles and losing the ability to swim, according to the UKs National History Museum.

It then settles on the ocean floor in a blob-like cyst before re-emerging in a new body within 36 hours.

We are studying why there are certain life forms that do not age. Now that we are able to study the immortal jellyfish, we will be discovering things very quickly, Dr Cordeiro said.

One of the major issues will be humanity coming to terms with the possibility of living for ever, after millennia of living with the knowledge that death was an inevitability.

There are mental issues that need to be resolved as we have become accustomed to the fact we will all die, since the beginning of humanity. But it does not need to be that way any more, he said.

He pointed to the work being carried by high-profile tech-billionaires into anti-ageing as another example of how immortality could be around the corner.

Last year, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos invested in Altos Labs, a start-up with the goal of extending human life.

In 2016, Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced a $3 billion plan to erase all diseases by 2100, while in the same year Microsoft said it was using computer science to solve cancer within a decade.

Earlier in the week, a UAE medical group unveiled plans to help the population reach a life expectancy of 101.

Pure Health chief executive Farhan Malik announced a scheme to make Abu Dhabi a centre of research when it came to longevity.

At an event in Louvre in Abu Dhabi he said that when we talk about longevity, we don't just mean increasing lifespan but making people healthier for longer.

Over the past decade, billions of dollars have been invested in anti-ageing research, with Google's Calico, the American National Institute on Ageing and Saudi Arabia's Hevolution Foundation being some of the names in the industry.

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The student in my doctoral seminar almost snorted when someone referred to Amazons Alexa as an Artificial Intelligence, or AI.

Its nothing but a voice activated database query system. Theres no intelligence involved at all, she scoffed.

She had a point and missed the point. Finding more user-friendly ways to access data has always been important and, over the years, technological upgrades have included a leap from specialized languages (secret codes that only the computers and their overlords understood) to natural language interfaces (Alexa, turn on the lights.) While impressive, these advances are not artificial intelligence.

But this misses the real issue. The biggest leap forward is not how well computers think, but how we think about computers. What is changing is our consciousness of what it means to be human. By giving an interface a name, a distinctive voice, and the appearance of a personality, Alexa isnt teaching us to use a natural language database interface, shes teaching us to regard a computer program as one of us. These days Amazon even sends you notes suggesting that you need to keep up with Alexa and what shes doing, just as you might a long-forgotten friend.

The ubiquity of Alexa and Siri, now found in just about every cellphone, automobile and sprinkled through businesses and households, continues a long pattern of anthropomorphizing computers. Star Wars creator George Lucas created robot characters, C3PO and R2D2, that expressed emotions toward both humans and one another. These, in turn, elicited such strong emotional attachment that having human characters risk their lives to save them didnt seem ridiculous.

In the first generation of Star Trek we also learned to allow non-humans into the realm of human emotions and loyalties. It is hardly surprising that the second generation of Star Trek would carry on exploring the humanization of artificial intelligences. In the TV series Star Trek Generations, an AI (Data) stands trial, claiming what are essentially human rights. In the film Star Trek: First Contact, we find the temptation of that same AI to join the Borg queen and take on the sins of the flesh.

It doesnt really matter that AI hasnt yet lived up to the claim of being intelligent in the sense of being sentient. What matters is the growing cultural acceptance that devices created by humans and made of silicone, plastic and metal are living beings whom we treat as peers.

That acceptance also slowly changes the way we think of ourselves. Much attention has been given to whether and when so-called AI will actually become intelligent. Aside from fiction, such as Neil Stephensons Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, not nearly enough consideration has been given to how we begin to think of ourselves as AIs.

Perhaps the most obvious change is the steady relocation of human personhood into the mind, and thus the brain. In the early part of the 20th century human death was marked by the cessation of breath and heartbeat. Since the late 1960s, it has been identified by a lack of certain meaningful electrical signals in the brain. To be dead is to be brain dead, even if the rest of the body functions. And to be living is to be brain alive even if sustaining the brains life is entirely through artificial means. We measure the presence of a mind and soul by what happens in the brain.

As Jeffrey Bishop notes in Anticipatory Corpse, with the advent of increasingly sophisticated transplant surgery the body (and not necessarily a human body; we also use pig, cow, and artificial parts) has become a repository of interchangeable parts necessary to sustain the brain and central nervous system. I personally have two artificial lenses, and a cows heart valve in a silicone structure. Artificial hips, knees and elbows are ubiquitous. Were all really just Six Million Dollar Men and Robocops in waiting.

Small wonder transhumanism (which made the cover of TIME in 2011) has become popular among those who have the wealth and hubris to imagine themselves as potential transhumans; their essential consciousness transposed into a computer program.

One such is Elon Musk, who in a 2018 interview with Axios on HBO said humans must merge with artificial intelligence, creating a symbiosis that leads to a democratization of intelligence. Indeed, as our cultural sense of what it means to be human changes, we may well divide into three types of humans: those who can afford to become transhuman, those who will simply die, and those whose religion promises they live eternally in some other form. Religion will become the poor-persons transhumanism.

The transition that moves the center of being human to the mind, now defined as a complex of electrical impulses supported by mechanisms that maintain it (the body), represents as profound a transition in our understanding of what it means to be human as those affected by great religious teachings and the advent of modernity and the secular age. And like those religious teachings and the rise of modernity, it poses profound questions of how we will understand ourselves and others.

When does a living body lose its human rights? When does it begin to have them? Should AIs, when they emerge into sentience, have human rights? And when they reproduce themselves, a major goal of AI research, who will control their reproductive rights? Most of all, what makes a human a human? Is there something more to us than observable patterns of electrical interactions in the brain?

Traditionally the intellectual center for exploring human self-understanding has been the humanities. Yet universities have been consistently downgrading the study of the humanities in favor of STEM subjects related to increased economic productivity. And in any case scholars in the humanities need to refocus on emerging cultures and their understanding of what it means to be human. STEM researchers, who study what we are, dont have the tools to study who we are and how we express our self-understanding. So those of us who focus specifically on what it means to be human must address future humanity as well as the past.

Religion, too, addresses our understanding of what it means to be human. Yet the changes even now taking place with the advent of AI seem to have scarcely gained the notice of religious leaders still battling with modernity. Weve grasped that there may be virtual churches, but have we considered that some of their members (and even preachers and musicians) may be intelligent machines represented by avatars? What happens to our humanity when it isnt merely disembodied, but re-embodied in a different form? What do terms like body, soul, spirit, and flesh, mean in virtual worlds?

Because we are on the cusp of an axial shift in human self-understanding we need a renewed focus on these questions. And that focus must bring into view not just the exploration of the past, but the human of the future, even now emerging in literature, television and film, history, politics and the fine arts.

Robert Hunt is the director of global theological education at Perkins School of Theology on the SMU Dallas campus. He wrote this for The Dallas Morning News.

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John Fetterman is a trust fund kid. He took money from his parents deep into middle age when he decided finally what he would like to do with the rest of his life, which is to be the U.S. senator from Pennsylvania. The problem is fate intervened and he can now no longer speak. He had a bad stroke and we feel bad about that. Everyone does, but because of that stroke, Fetterman now needs electronic assistance in order to communicate with other people.

He can't talk on his own. It's not a right-wing conspiracy theory. It's not QAnon. It's real. In fact, it's so real, his campaign concedes that it's real. That is true. Fetterman uses a software program to understand the words of those around him and to formulate his responses to those words. In other words, to talk. Now, to be perfectly clear, this software is not a hearing aid. Fetterman doesn't need a hearing aid because he isn't deaf. He's not hearing impaired. Instead, this program takes words and then rearranges them into language that John Fetterman can understand because his brain can no longer do that for him.

That's sad. For transhumanists, though, it is thrilling. This is an amazing moment. This is Neil Armstrong on the moon. Here you have one of the most famous politicians in the country merging with a computer. This is the future they imagine. They're thrilled by it, but for everyone else, for the voters of Pennsylvania, for example, it does raise some obvious questions. For example, where exactly does the software end and John Fetterman consciousness begin?

We don't know. We can't know, but it's obvious that Pennsylvania could very well be sending a computer program to the U.S. Senate where inevitably it will be hacked. Yesterday, MSNBC sat down with John Fetterman and his thinking machine to assess where the man ends and the machine begins and the initial impressions were not at all encouraging.

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REPORTER DASHA BURNS: We had a monitor set up so that he could read my questions because he still has lingering auditory processing issues as a result of the stroke, which means he has a hard time understanding what he's hearing. Now once he reads the question, he's able to understand. You'll hear he also still has some problems, some challenges with speech, and I'll say, Katie, that just in some of the small talk prior to the interview, before the closed captioning was up and running, it did seem that he had a hard time understanding our conversations.

John Fetterman, lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania and Democratic senate candidate, speaks during a campaign rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Photographer: Nate Smallwood/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Nate Smallwood/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Well, good for her for admitting that. That's a rival channel. Don't watch a lot of MSNBC, but she should tell viewers that, and she did. What she just told you is that before the machine was turned on, John Fetterman could not understand human language, not even small talk. But once the machine was plugged in, he sounded or the machine sounded nearly human, but don't worry. Everything is going to be fine in the Senate as long as there's not a power outage. It's not like the electricity ever goes down in this country. We definitely have enough renewables to keep John Fetterman voting the right way for the next six years. Better build some more wind farms. That's the plan.

But once again, to the credit of the MSNBC.com reporter, she did ask a follow-up. How do we know your thinking machine isn't going to break, John Fetterman? Can we see a doctor's report on this? Here's how that exchange went:

REPORTER DASHA BURNS: Can voters trust that you will be able to do this job on day one?

JOHN FETTERMAN: Yeah, of course.

BURNS: So, you say you're on the road to full recovery, but right now, voters really have to take your word for it. We've asked for your medical records. We've asked to have a conversation with someone from your medical team to interview your physician. You've declined those requests. Why?

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FETTERMAN: Well, I feel like we have been very transparent in a lot of different ways when our doctor has already given a letter saying that I'm able to serve and to be running.

BURNS: I mean, respectfully, that letter from your physician, that was six months ago. Don't voters deserve to know your status now?

FETTERMAN: Being on, in front of thousands and thousands of people and having interviews and getting around all across Pennsylvania, that gives everybody and the voters decide, you know, if they think that it's really the issue.

He's reading that off a screen and by the way, we're taking him at his word that there's not a staffer backstage typing out the answers because he himself can't formulate them. Now, again, you can feel deeply sympathetic to John Fetterman. That's sad to watch, but this is a guy who wants to run the federal government in a body of 100, the most powerful legislative body in the world, and he wants to be a member of it.

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Over at CBS, reporter Ed O'Keefe asked the obvious question, "Will Pennsylvanians be comfortable with someone representing them who had to conduct a TV interview this way?" Now, that's a mild way to put it, but it's certainly a fair observation. The guy's reading his answers off a screen with the reporter three feet away. That's the definition of impairment and again, this is a very serious job.

But others in the media scoffed at the idea that was a problem at all. In fact, far from being a problem, it was an asset because if the equity agenda means anything, it means that incompetent people ought to be in charge. That's equity.

As New York City Councilwoman Rita Joseph put it, questions about Fetterman's profound brain damage are, "incredibly ableist." Ableist? "We desperately need more diversity in elected office, and that includes people with speech impediments." Well, we desperately need that. That is absolutely right, but actually we're not talking about a speech impediment. She's telling us he's got a stutter just like Joe Biden. Remember they told you that Joe Biden's dementia was just a stutter? But of course, a speech impediment would not prevent Fetterman or Biden from understanding other people's speech. Huh?

Investigative reporter Hunter Walker, who writes for Rolling Stone and The New Yorker, answered that question with a question of his own "Would they treat a deaf person like this for needing assistance?" Oh. So, if you have questions about John Fetterman, you hate the deaf. You're a hearingist, bigot. We're going to close down your bank account of JPMorgan, ablest. But again, it's not really relevant to the Senate race in Pennsylvania because once again, John Fetterman doesn't have hearing problems. He's not deaf. This isn't deafness. This is brain damage.

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The Independent's Eric Michael Garcia tried to tie up that loose end, and he used an analogy to do it. That's howreally smart people talk. "How is this any different," he wrote "from Tammy Duckworth or Madison Cawthorn needing a wheelchair?"

So,John Fetterman, being unable to talk without reading it off a screen, either from the software orfrom one of his staffers backstage is exactly the same as being wounded in defense of your own country. It's a war injury.

And then John Fettermans wife, who came into this country as an illegal alien by the way, wondered the same thing and we're quoting "Truly appalling. Have these journalists never heard of the Americans with Disabilities Act? Really curious to learn how they feel about wheelchairs and glasses."

Really? So, your questions about John Fetterman's mental health, the acuity of his brain, his ability to talk and listen and reason, use his higher faculties, those questions are banned by the Americans with Disabilities Act because he's not just an incompetent guy trying to take over the country. No, he's disabled.

Over at Vox, Ian Millhiser said he knows exactly how Fetterman's bigoted critics view people with eyeglasses. "Is it the position of NBC News that a senator with glasses cannot be trusted in office because they use assistive technology to accommodate their disability?"

It's unbelievable. Not only can you not ask questions about the guy you're supposed to vote for and whether he can actually represent you in the United States Senate, you're not allowed. He's fine and by the way, the fact he's not fine is the reason to vote for him. So, they're hitting you for both sides. Vote for him because he's so profoundly disabled. We don't have enough for those in the Senate. But if you note he is profoundly disabled, you're a bigot. They got you coming and going.

Have you heard this before? Does it sound kind of familiar where they take someone with an obvious impairment and then they use him to accrue more power for themselves? It's not really about the disabled person. It's about them and then if you ask questions about it, shut up bigot!

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Climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at a the "Fridays For Future" climate rally during COP26 on November 5, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Does the name Greta Thunberg come to mind? That's the girl who is always lecturing you about global warming and how you are evil. Greta Thunberg is someone who needed help and concern from adults. At the age of 11, she lost 22 pounds because, according to her parents, she was so depressed about global warming that she couldn't eat and then she was diagnosed with a whole suite of very serious problems: OCD, mutism, Asperger's, very, very sad, actually.

But the people around Greta Thunberg and the people who used Greta Thunberg didn't see this as sad at all. They saw it as an advantage for them because Greta Thunberg could be used to accrue more power to them and you weren't allowed to say anything about it because she was disabled, which, by the way, you weren't allowed to notice. Here's Greta Thunberg:

GRETA THUNBERG: You all come to us young people for hope. How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is the money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!

So you look at that and on one level you think, why is this person lecturing me, someone who's never had a job before is in charge of, like, our energy policy? That's crazy.

And then the other level, the more deep level, the more important level, you realize what a tragedy you just saw. Here is someone who is profoundly troubled, who needs real help and care and empathy and love from the adults in her life, but she's not getting any of that. Instead, she's being carted out like a sideshow freak for the profit of others. They're using that child in exactly the way they're using Joe Biden and John Fetterman and by the way, Kamala Harris, the dimmest person ever to work in American politics. None of them have any idea what's going on. And they're being used by people for the benefit of those people, but you can't say anything because you would be against people with disabilities and the ADA prohibits you from doing that. Right?

You're supposed to accommodate Greta Thunberg's disability, pretend her words are profound, just like the fake poet at Biden's inauguration. Oh, she was so great. We dare you to say she wasn't. She was ridiculous, but you did not because it's so profound.

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In Greta Thunberg's case, of course, the media loved it because they could use her too. They could use Greta Thunberg, didn't care anything about it. She could die and they wouldn't care. They would find someone else to use as a marionette for their own political ambitions. Watch them:

ANDREA MITCHELL, MSNBC: Perhaps the most impressive and impassioned remarks have come not from a president or prime minister, but 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg

CNN ANCHOR: She is the teenager on strike for the planet. Time's Person of the Year. Greta Thunberg is leading a generation of climate kids.

LAURA COATES, CNN: Greta, first of all, I got to reassess my life choices. That is a force to be reckoned with.

BILL WEIR, CNN: Greta Thunberg, the Swedish girl who inspired so much, she said she was in a deep depression when she understood the warnings of science, but turned that depression into action. I see the result here today.

MIKA BRZEZINSKI, MSNBC:Greta's passion does reflect what really is happening and we're still arguing whether or not it exists?

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She turned that depression into action. Well, no, she didn't, actually. She's living in hell. Like most emotionally unbalanced children, she's suffering, but you don't care because you can use her. You did nothing to support her, to love her, to cure for serious mental illness.

No, you used her to take more power and if anyone says anything about it, if you think children shouldn't go on television to talk about climate policy and energy, then you're a bigot. You hate children. You hate Greta Thunberg; And by the way, as you sit and watch the results of the lunatic policy that she's espousing without even understanding Europe's energy grid collapsing, then you're a bad person.

As Vox reported, "Attacks on Greta Thunberg expose the stigma autistic girls face." No, they expose the callousness and cynicism of her parents and MSNBC anchors and everybody else who used her suffering to their own benefit. The Washington Post complained "Autistic young people deserve serious respect and attention, not dismissal as the pawns of others." Really? Whose pawn is Greta Thunberg? Yours. Researchers at the University of Albany even published a study on "Analysis of ageism, sexism and ableism in user comments and YouTube videos about climate activist Greta Thunberg."

So again, you need to listen to her because she's not well, but if you note that she's not well, you're a bigot. It's the same, exactly the same dynamic you're watching what the president of the United States, Joe Biden, who is not well and everybody knows it. Joe Biden mourned the death of Congresswoman Jackie Walorski publicly. Then a few weeks later, he asked, totally befuddled, why isn't she here at the event? But if you notice it, that happened, you're the ageist.

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WHOOPI GOLDBERG: You know, my gosh, come on. You can't go after him for, you know, not giving aid to Florida or not tackling the infrastructure and he's giving aid to Ukraine. So, you can't go after him for that, but you can go after him for forgetting that someone has passed. I mean, and she passed last month, not like 100 years ago.

SUNNY HOSTIN:I think what it really shows is that this country is so ageist. This country has a problem with age and I think they need to stop weaponizing his age. I hate that about this country.

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This country has a problem with age so if you don't like the fact the commander-in-chief, the guy who commands our nuclear arsenal, is deranged because of age, which he is, then you're the bigot. But underneath all of this is this single most cynical political move in the history of this country, and that is elevating Joe Biden precisely because he is fading away, because he is demented. That's why they chose him.

They had an option, actually. His name was Bernie Sanders. We're hardly endorsing Bernie Sanders' program, but Bernie Sanders could think clearly. And the people who run the Democratic Party just hated what he had to say. So, they picked a guy who had nothing going on upstairs, was flatlining mentally, so they couldn't control him. That's exactly what they're doing with Fetterman.

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This dystopian nightmare scenario is no longer the stuff of science fiction, but an integral part of the proposed post-pandemic Great Reset, Dr. Miklos Lukacs de Pereny said at a recent summit on COVID-19.

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Indeed, to the extent that implementing the transhumanist agenda is possible, it requires the concentration of political and economic power in the hands of a global elite and the dependence of people on the state, said Lukacs.

Thats precisely the aim of the Great Reset, promoted by German economist Klaus Schwab, CEO and founder of World Economic Forum, along with billionaire philanthropists George Soros and Bill Gates and other owners, managers, and shareholders of Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Finance who meet at the WEF retreats at Davos, Switzerland, contended Lukacs.

Transhumanism is far from a benign doctrine. Rather, it is at complete enmity with Christianity, Lukacs pointed out during the virtual in Truth Over Fear Summit organized by California-based Catholic writer and broadcaster Patrick Coffin.

Transhumanists take science as their religion and believe in a philosophy of absolute relativism that claims that individuals can change reality at will, and they seek to relativize the human being and turn it into a putty that can be modified or molded to our taste and our desire and by rejecting those limits nature or God have placed on us.

Transhumanism therefore requires the destruction of the Judeo-Christian morality, which is based on absolute principles and values.

Those raising alarm about the Great Reset often overlook the crucial role of technology in the plans of the meta-capitalists, contended Lukacs, who has Ph.D. in management from the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) from the University of Manchester.

The COVID-19 pandemic was just another social engineering project deliberately planned and implemented by predatory meta capitalism to achieve the ultimate end: redefining and reconfiguring the human nature and condition, he argued in a presentation in Spanish.

I have the firm conviction that this pandemic has been manufactured and its purpose is none other than to initiate, as they say, or implement the Great Reset, which will open the door to the advancement of the transhumanist agenda, he said.

Indeed, WEFs Schwab has been promoting the Great Reset as a way to harness the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a term he coined, which, he declared in January 2016, will affect the very essence of our human experience.

Schwab described the Fourth Industrial Revolution then as a fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines among the physical, digital and biological spheres, Lukacs said.

Those technologies include genetic engineering such as CRISPR genetic editing, artificial intelligence (A.I.), robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, and quantum computing.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is nothing other than the implementation of transhumanism on a global level, emphasized Lukacs.

Transhumanism as a political ideology and cultural movement was defined in 1998 by Swedish economist Nick Bostrom, then a professor at Oxford, and David Pearce, a British philosopher, who that year founded the World Transhumanist Association.

More recently, Yuval Noah Harari, the Israeli historian and author of Homo Deus, who is regarded as a great visionary, has been promoting transhumanism.

Transhumanists propose to use technology to alter human nature to produce human beings with super longevity, super intelligence, super well-being, Lukacs said.

They reject the Christian belief in absolute truth, and that God created human person in His image and likeness, and see absolute values as a brake for their pretensions of transhumanist and globalist progressivism.

Thats why the approval of abortion is key to understanding why we are entering fully into this transhumanist agenda of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Lukacs said.

When abortion was approved, the political, economic order and moral values on which Western civilization is based collapsed.

Abortion means nothing other than the transition of the human being from a subject of rights to an object of commercialization, to an object of experimentation, he said.

Life ceases to have an inherent value, an inherent dignity. It becomes an object of consumption, an object of production, and this aligns perfectly with the goal of transhumanists to experiment with the human being.

Transhumanism is a struggle against those propositions of absolute values, said Lukacs, and what it embodies in progressivism is absolute relativism.

Evidence that absolute relativism has caught hold in the Western world is the rapid and widespread rise in trangenderism.

Lukacs also noted cases of transspecisim, transageism, transableism, and transracism.

Examples of these attempts to reshape ones reality at will include the American known as Lizard Man, the Canadian man living as a six-year-old, the British woman who blinded herself because she wanted to be disabled, and the German woman who injected herself with melatonin to darken her skin to identify as black.

These are previous states of transhumanism, a kind of accustoming, especially of the new generations, to accept this diversity, Lukacs said.

While many transhumanist proposals are rooted in science fiction, Lukacs pointed out they now have the technology to attempt to realize their mad aspirations.

Transhumanists propose to increase longevity by using CRISPR genetic editing, which has been used to triple the lifespan of mice. Thus, using this technique on human beings, it is conceivable that people could live to the age of 200 or 300 years old, he said.

They propose to increase human intelligence by planting chips in people that have greater processing capacity than the human brain.

An example is Elon Musks NeuraLink, which is an interface that is applied to the cerebral cortex and which Musk says will help people with Alzheimers or epilepsy, but which Lukacs speculates could open the door to neuro-hackers.

There is also the post-humanist school of transhumanism, of which economist Bostrom is a proponent.

Bostrom proposes that at some point it will not even be necessary to have a physical body, but we will be a set of information, that we will be able to upload our thoughts to the Cloud, that we will be able to form a great collective intelligence with other human beings, Lukac said.

As for the promise of super wellbeing, philosopher Pearce said it was the hedonist imperative to genetically modify us to aspire to super well-being.

What Pearce is saying is that through genetic modification, were going to be virtuous human beings, and that we have to forget about pain and suffering, we have to get rid of those genes that make us aggressive, violent, jealous, that force us to fight and kill each other, said Lukacs.

When you put all these things into the balance, what you are realizing is what you are looking at is literally the destruction of human beings, of Homo sapiens, and their conversion to Homo deus.

But as with the Great Reset, the elites twist the language and disguise their transhumanist agenda behind vaguely benign phrases, so Schwabs Fourth Industrial Revolution is sold to us as an idea thats not necessarily going to affect us, or that it is progress that will benefit humanity, he said.

However, just as ordinary people will suffer in the Great Reset under the architecture of oppression, as Edward Snowden phrased it, so they will bear the brunt of the experimentation by transhumanists.

Its very worrying because for achieving that kind of dream, many, many mistakes will happen for sure. The burden will be carried by the people that get affected by this in their health, in their lives, in their economic situation and in their psychological or mental state, said Lukacs.

Its a very, very costly experiment. And [the elites] are not going to bear any responsibility for this. Trust me, he told Coffin.

For them, its wonderful. For the rest, this is just dystopian.

Lukacs also contended that the global elites encountered an unexpected roadblock to their plans in U.S. president Donald Trump.

Actually, the structure of power is not that complicated, he told Coffin in an online Q&A session.

At the top are the meta-capitalists or capitalists that have so much financial muscle that they can play beyond the rules of capitalism; actually, they make the rules of capitalism or remake them, he said.

And you have those guys on Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Finance, Big Construction, everything big, the big corporate transnational world. Those are the billionaires who through their philanthropies, their billion-dollar pledges and all this kind of stuff, they funnel money downwards to all the politicians, who are basically rented politicians, they rent them, they run the world for them, he said.

Its really the privatization of power through philanthropy, added Lukacs.

And then, of course, you will have a layer of middle ground or middle level institutions, NGOs, universities, foundations, and then youll go down to grassroots local government. Its a pyramidal structure.

But Trump is one key public figure who could evidently not be rented.

It is so obvious that in the States right now for the past, what, four, five months, a state coup has been in the making. As simple as that. I have no problem in saying it openly, Lukacs told Coffin.

Thats the situation. They have tried to oust a president that was democratically elected because they are desperate. China is still progressing. And their partners in the West, theyre just not catching up. So, they are a little bit desperate. China is not going to wait.

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Continuing an ongoing philosophical conversation about the order of rank and value, media theorist and evolutionary biologist Donna Haraway states inA Cyborg Manifestothat the classifications of human, machine, and animal species blur if one examines them at the genetic or molecular level; the order and rank of human supremacy dissolves. In the late 19th century following the acceptance of Darwins theory of evolution, how were the fuzzy lines between humans, animals, and machines drawn and by whom? At what point do we, as humans, become transhumanenhanced by technology? Can order, rank, and classification of species be challenged or changedwithin the human-nonhuman kingdom as the transhuman world evolves through representations in media and in perception? Taking responsibility for classifications and ranking means recognizing, in Haraways words, that the machine is us, our processes, an aspect of our embodiment. We can be responsible for machines; they do not dominate or threaten us. We are responsible for boundaries; we are they. There is no natural body in posthumanism. The cyborg figuration problematizes borders between semiotic and material aspects of the body (for example, gender/sex), pointing to untenable clear separations between biomachinic materiality and sociocultural dimensions.Becoming-Transhuman: The Machine Is Uscalls for papers focusing on how classifications of human, machine, animal species blur in the twenty-first century. Scholars are invited to present explorations of practical and controversial applications of transhumanism, such as vaccines, prosthetic extensions of the body, bioengineering of life, cochlear implants, transgender or transracial identity, sentient cars, communication with animals, and immortality research.

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This list is a mere starting point for you, to do your own research. Dr. Madej studied this for twenty years, so the actual basis of her knowledge is much larger than this list.

https://pubs.rsc.org/--/content/articlelanding/2015/ra/c5ra01508a#!divAbstract

Why “Operation Warp Speed” Could Be Deadly

https://www.facebook.com/1780584826/posts/10213711458378968/?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1232869/

https://kenfm.de/bill-gates-predicts-700000-victims-from-corona-vaccination/

https://www.national-geographic.com/science/2020/05/moderna-coronavirus-vaccine-how-it-works-cvd/?fbclid=IwAR1EFM74n4ulVp8pEufYOA9vN13CCyYeKoXdnWpk-R_0gZoDgflr3w5N0T4#close

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2020/07/29/modernas-mysterious-coronavirus-vaccine-delivery-system/#2226d81562d9

Gene Drive Files Expose Leading Role of US Military in Gene Drive Development.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/11/30/gene-drive-research-fight-diseases-can-proceed-cautiously-un-group-decides/

https://youtu.be/iMl0ty6evhU https://steemit.com/life/@pranavsinha/bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-kicked-out-of-india

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=ksEVaO806Oo

https://youtu.be/Ofdd4ILdpVY https://scialert.net/fulltext/?doi=biotech.2011.136.148

http://ir.inovio.com/news-releases/news-releases-details/2020/INOVIOs-COVID-19-DNA-Vaccine-INO-4800-Demonstrates-Robust-Neutralizing-Antibody-and-T-Cell-Immune-Responses-in-Preclinical-Models/default.aspx

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232740966_What_you_always_needed_to_know_about_electroporation_based_DNA_vaccines

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/international-business/article-astrazeneca-to-be-exempt-from-coronavirus-vaccine-liability-claims-in/

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/20-things-you-didn't-know-about-dna

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/gene-editing-moderna-and-transhumanism/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200715095500.htm

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC33911/

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-potential-coronavirus-vaccine-could-be-as-easy-as-sticking-on-a-bandage-2020-04-08

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3675524/#!po=0.446429

https://www.genengnews.com/topics/drug-discovery/quantum-dots-deliver-vaccines-and-invisibly-encode-vaccination-history-in-skin/

https://newatlas.com/snake-fang-microneedle-patch/60868/

Scientists Propose ‘Tattoos’ To Solve Vaccination Issues

https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/references/gibco-cell-culture-basics/transfection-basics/introduction-to-transfection.html

Injectable Body Sensors Take Personal Chemistry to a Cell Phone Closer to Reality

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarwantsingh/2017/11/20/transhumanism-and-the-future-of-humanity-seven-ways-the-world-will-change-by-2030/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200715095500.htm

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/invisible-ink-could-reveal-whether-kids-have-been-vaccinated/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338044557_Biocompatible_near-infrared_quantum_dots_delivered_to_the_skin_by_microneedle_patches_record_vaccination

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After 15 years in the industry, and officially celebrating their 15th-anniversary collection, Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen is looking into the future. Her new collection imagines a world where ethereal aliens cohabitate the planet with us mortals. At the Fall Winter 2022 Couture show this past weekend, attendees were transported to a new galaxy for Meta Morphism amongst the hustle and bustle of Paris Haute Couture Week. Further experimenting with her signature 3D printing style, van Herpen also matched the collections multidimensional, architectural clothes with hair, makeup, and nails looks the appeared to have a life of their own.

The theme of the show explored how the body will change in the face of post-human realities (including the metaverse) and asked who we are beyond our physicality. The models highly detailed and dynamic-shaped white, silver, and earth-toned outfits were complemented with transhuman manicures. Created by nail artist Tomoya Nakagawa, the translucent, glowing nail art overtook their fingers, with long oval ends and jellyfish-like 3D detailing that pointed back at the top of their hands.

For makeup, Chiao Li Hsu gave models gold and silver leaves around their eyes and bleached eyebrows on an otherwise natural, dewy base. Like the intricate garments, every finer detail was futuristic, with some models walking the runway with translucent sculptures across their faces. When it came to hair, stylists Olivier Schawalder and Bjorn Axen channeled aquatic mythological creatures with tail-like braids across the models faces. Some also had their hair slicked back with crowns.

Like everything at couture week, these fantastical beauty styles are not something that can easily traverse from the runway into daily wear. But theres no doubt that the Iris van Herpen show has us looking ahead and excited for the future of beauty. Whether its mythological hair or ethereal nails, we could all benefit from inserting some more imagination into our beauty routines. With that in mind, expect to see more space-age, transparent manicures, 3D nail art, and experimental braids coming soon.

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Perhaps the strongest arguments on the pro-abortion side are the variations of the claim that women should have the right to control their own bodies!

The notion of bodily autonomy is invoked in legal briefs, in protests over the overturn of Roe v. Wade, and in public opinion.

But Tish HarrisonWarren, a priest in the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA)a conservative breakaway from the Episcopalians, but not so conservative that they dont have female priestshas written a remarkable op-ed for the New York Timesentitled Dobbs, Roe and the Myth of Bodily Autonomy. Also remarkable is that the Times let her have her say.

The op-ed is behind a paywall, but you can access it here. She develops three arguments, which I excerpt here:

1. Bodily autonomy is limited by our obligation not to harm others. . . .Our desires to do what we want with our bodies must be respected, but they must also be limited by the needs and rights of others, including those who live inside our own bodies.

2. The term autonomy denies the deep interdependence and limitations of each human body. . . .The natural state of human beings is to be deeply and irrevocably interdependent with each other. The only reason any of us are alive today is because someone cared for us as children in the womb and then as infants and toddlers. . . .

A child in the womb depends on a mother for life in a way that places a unique burden on a mother. But this burden does not end at birth. Parenthood at any stage is a tough one. A one-year-old baby is dependent on adults for food, protection and care in ways that can be deeply distressing, but we cant invoke bodily autonomy as a reason for neglecting a babys needs. one year old child. Abortion seems to punish a fetus for its lack of bodily autonomy and negate the deep trust that all of us who have bodies hold.

This deep interdependence that we all share comes with obligations to one another. We dont always choose how our body depends on others. And we often dont choose the obligations placed on our lives by others who depend on us. . . .

3. The pressing question in abortion is whether championing bodily autonomy requires us to override or undo biological realities. . . .

Whatever one thinks of sex and what it is for whether it is a sacred act or merely recreational pleasure we can all agree that sex is the only human activity that has the power to create life and that any potentially procreative sexual act therefore carries a certain level of risk that pregnancy may occur. . . .Yet the state does not impose this risk to produce human life; biology does. Except in the horrific circumstances of rape or incest, which account for 1% of abortions, women and men both have bodily power and choices about whether they will have sex and therefore whether they are ready to accept the risk of a new life that ensues.

Our bodies undeniably place a disproportionate reproductive burden on women. There is an inescapable asymmetry between male and female bodies when it comes to creating and carrying life. . . .Yet the state, in the end, cannot and should not save us entirely from the known realities of human biology.

A sperm and an egg unite to become a human being inside a womans body. The state does not force this to happen any more than it forces aging or weight loss from exercise or forces the lungs to take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide.

Of course, the rebellion against biological realities and against the body itself can be seen also in the transgender movement, the acceptance of which, like championing abortion, has become another required dogma of progressivism. This amounts to the imposition of another religion, namely, Gnosticism. This worldview, which is also evident in Transhumanism, permeates much of contemporary thought. See, for example, Gnostic America by Peter Burfeind (an LCMS pastor).

Just as the early church had to battle the heresy of Gnosticism, the contemporary church must do the same, insisting on the reality and value of the physical realm and the significance of the body. Towards that end, we would do well to read John Kleinigs new book Wonderfully Made: A Protestant Theology of the Body.

At any rate, Tish Harrison Warren deserves credit for contributing to the abortion debate in an important public forum. My fellow Patheos blogger Jim Denison discusses her article and cites it as an example of how Christians can make persuasive arguments in the public square.

HT: Jim Denison

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. . .hes just doing his part to help humanity survive the loomingunderpopulation crisis?

++++++++Peter Watts: Attack of the Hope Police: Delusional Optimism at the End of the World?Apr 30, 2019Institute of Advanced Studies Koszeg (iASK) Felsobbfok Tanulmnyok Intzete

8:38 (/58:31)

Now the other assumption on the part of the give us solutions brigadeis that we dont already have solutions, that solutions have not beenstaring us in the face for decades. . .

(9:22)

And above all, stop breeding. I could fly back and forth acrossthe Atlantic every week for a solid year and my carbon footprint wouldstill not be anywhere close to the Godzilla-size bootprint thatpeople stamp onto the planet every time they have a kid.

But oddly, these do not seem to be the kind of solutions that theoptimism brigade are in the market for. . .

(23:14)

My fear isnt just that people will see it and deny the facts, myfear is that even if people accept the facts, they just wont act onthem. The current US administrations position on climate changeis a classic case in point. Now a lot has been made of Donald Trumpspersonal repudiation of climate change as a climate hoax and so on.The fact is, the Trump administration does not deny climate changeat all. The Trump administration is on record as admitting that theyexpect the worlds temperature to increase by 4 degrees Centigradebefore the end of the century. And they continue to dismantleenvironment protections not despite that insight, but because of it.Were already screwed, you see its already too late. Its toolate to save the planet, so why bother hobbling short-term economicprofits with a bunch of pointless environmental regulations that wonteven really change anything?

I said before that we werent scared enough. Why is that? Why arewe so blind to such an existential threat? Why is it that when afriend of mine, a university professor not a stupid man by anystretch of the imagination why is it that when he inseminates hiswife with twins, an act which is exactly as remarkable as two dogsfucking in the street and far, far more destructive ecologically he not only doesnt think theres anything wrong with that, heactually goes onto social media and brags about it? And why is itthat when he does that, everybody piles on with Oh my God, youregonna be a dad! and Oh, daddy times two! and Oh, you must beso proud!? Why is it that nobody ever says Wow, 7.6 billionisnt enough for you?? Why is it that nobody ever says Well done,dipshit! By the time your precious twins are in their 20s, theywill be fighting over the last government rations down at the armory,if they havent already been wiped out by some mutant strain ofmonkeypox, or starved to death because wheat rust took out theworlds grain supply.? And why is it that if anybody did doany of that they would be immediately set upon as an asshole anda jerk? Not because what they said was necessarily wrong, butbecause even facing an imminent environmental apocalypse, due entirelyto the weight of our own numbers and our own first-world consumption,producing more of us is somehow not only still considered an inalienableright, but somehow morally praiseworthy? Why is it that columnistsin progressive, climate-change-recognizing papers write snippy editorialsin which they insist that Not only will climate change not stop mefrom having kids, but shitting on people who have decided not toreproduce, calling them shamers and virtue signallers? Howcan Emma Teitelhttps://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2019/03/13/climate-change-will-not-stop-me-from-having-kids.htmlbe so goddamn stupid? How can all of us as a species be sogoddamn stupid?

Well, as it turns out, because nature kind of built us that way.Up until quite recently, delusional stupidity was a survival trait. . .

[Steven Pinker sez] Brains are not truth detectors.They are survival engines. They were shaped by natural selection.They are wired to promote immediate fitness. If believing a liehas helped you spread your genes throughout our evolutionary history,then your brain will probably continue to believe that lie withall its furry little heart. And the obvious biggie here isMy genes are more special. My child is the center of the universe.My family is the most important thing. And its trivially easyto see how natural selection would make us, shape us, to believethat kind of stuff, even though we now have evidence that statisticallyparents are more miserable with their lives than non-parents are.

But thats only one example out of a bunch of em. Heres anotherone. Give somebody a choice between five bucks today and twentybuck in two weeks, and most of the time they will choose the smaller,more immediate payoff. Now the technical term for this ishyperbolic discounting. . . You give somebody a choice betweena reduced standard of living today and environmental apocalypse in20 years, and you dont even have to guess what theyre gonna do.Cause the numbers are already in. Because its 20 years away.Because, you know, somebody will come up with something in themeantime. Because its all probably a Chinese hoax anyway. . .++++

On the other hand (from the Alt-Right, Intellectual Dark Webpoint of view):

++++++++Jordan Peterson Population Collapse Is ComingFeb 18, 2022Chris Williamson

Jordan Peterson responds to Elon Musks population collapse prediction.What is the global population doing? Does Jordan Peterson think there aretoo many people on the earth? Are Elon Musks population collapse andpopulation decline predictions going to happen?

Williamson: Rolling the clock forward, you and Elon [Musk]tweeted recently about population collapse. You think itsgonna happen, then?

Peterson: Oh, well, Ive thought for at least ten years thatthe biggest problem in 50 years is that theres just not enoughpeople.

Williamson: I remember hearing you say a few years ago that youthough wed peak about 9 billion. . .

Peterson: Yeah, we probably wont hit 9. Yeah. And Idont have stats, because. . .

Williamson: Think about how crazy it is to think that we mightbe living on Earth, right now, at the time with the most number ofhumans that are ever going to exist at one time, ever.

Peterson: Yeah, thats highly probable. And you know, and thepopulation. . .

Williamson: That blows my mind.

Peterson: . . .the population collapse in developed countries isprecipitous.

Williamson: Right.

Peterson: Its like we fall off a cliff, because theres no kids. . .

Williamson: Everyone knows this from the pandemic, the r-nought number.If fewer people are reproducing, next generation you have fewer peopleto reproduce as fewer people are reproducing, and they oof .

Peterson: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I. . .

Williamson: And you think. . .

Peterson: Well, I I worked on a UN committee, about its gotta be10 years ago now to help draft the UN Secretary Generals report onsustainable economic development, and so I looked at all sorts of things,like that. I was very curious, for example, about. . . Because,people have been beating the overpopulation drum since. . . well, itreally kicked in in the 1960s, you know, because there were direpredictions by the year 2000 the Club of Rome came out and saidwell, therell be riots and mass starvation and mass movement ofmigrants, and all the things you hear about climate change becausetheres too many people on the planet, and that just didnt happenat all. That was just it wasnt just wrong, it was anti-true.It was absolutely wrong. What happened instead was that everyone gotway richer. And the bottom section of the population in terms ofeconomic distribution got lifted out of poverty. Inequality stillexists, but thats that power-law phenomenon we already talked about.Not that thats trivial, its just unbelievably difficult to determinewhat to do with. There are solutions but, certainly getting rid ofcapitalism isnt the solution. And so, I looked at population trends,and first of all found not that this is an act of genius or anything that, as soon as you educate women, the size of the family shrinksprecipitously. Like below replacement. And thats partly becausewomen have other options, thats a huge part of it. . .

Williamson: Were seeing this play out, hm?

Peterson: Oh yes. I mean, all the countries in the West areway below replacement. Koreas way below replacement South Korea.Japan, way below replacement. Yeah, yeah.

Williamson: I think the number one, number one on the planet is might be Chad? Chad? Chad, the country? Uh. . .

Peterson: In terms of growth?

Williamson: Uh, eight children on average.

Peterson: Yeah, I think Nigeria will have more people in it thanChina by the end of the century. So, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and Musk you know, hes a far-looking man, and so hes looking around theapocalyptic corner, lets say: Oh, oh! Were running out ofpeople! And what that means, of course, is that you run out ofyoung people, right? You dont run out of old people first,cause everyone who is here now is gonna be 30 years older in30 years, and itll be young people we dont have enough of,and of course young people are the ones who do the innovation,and are going to do most of the heavy lifting, etc. And so, theresgonna be a terrible shortage of young people.

Williamson: Well, you see this with some of the things that Iposted with that O[ffice for][National][Statistics] data 50.1 percent of women childless by 30 and both men and womenare replying to that tweet saying Well good! Theres too manypeople on the planet in any case.

Peterson: Yeah. I know, I know.

Williamson: thinking how? . . this NPC [Non-Player Character, i.e. mindless]midwittery [someone who is around average intelligence but is so opinionatedand full of themselves that they think theyre some kind of genius:https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Midwit ]is so dangerous because it makes people believe that they actuallyhave something grounded backing up their claims.

Peterson: Yeah. Yeah, well, and this idea that the planet has toomany people on it, this is there is no sentiment more implicitlygenocidal than that statement.

Williamson: [laughs]

Peterson: So what do you mean too many people, exactly? And what doyou mean the planet? And what do you propose to do about that, exactly?Mass abortion, is that your answer? Or should we do something a littlemore dramatic? Maybe well just shame people out of having children.And Ive seen people do that. Literally I saw a professor, when I wasat a TED I think it was at. . . doesnt matter. There was a numberof professors talking to a couple hundred students. And one of theprofessors, who was an environmentalist activist type, and he got upon stage and shook his finger to the whole young crowd saying thathim and his wife had only decided to have one child which wasin my opinion one child too many for him. . .

Williamson: [chuckles]

Peterson: . . .and told all the young people there that if they hada shred of ethical decency that they would lim. . . severely limittheir reproductive potential, and. . . I stood up and said thatI thought that that was the most. . . one of the most appallingthings Id ever heard anyone in academia say to young people which is really something, cause they say plenty of appallingthings, and it was a very uncomfortable moment, and he huffed offthe stage. But, you know, in a frenzy, talking about how you couldnttalk about such things without being pilloried on ethical grounds,and yeah thats for sure. You come out as a, what emissary ofthe academic establishment, you tell young people that humanity isso corrupt that they should seriously consider not propagating becausethat violates the deepest of ethical norms, and you think thats agood thing and that thats your right and. . . It was just beyondcomprehension. Its beyond comprehension. But its associated with,like a deeply-rooted existential self-hatred. And I mean hatredat the level of: humanity is like a virus on the planet, that werea cancerous growth on. . .

Williamson: Alex Epstein calls this human racism.

Peterson: Hm. Hm. Right. Right.

Williamson: And its that.

Peterson: Yeah. Well, were a cancer on the planet, you know?Unchecked growth, just like a cancer. Its like thats us,eh, a cancer. Its OK, we know where your heart is located.Cause, whats the implications for a doctrine like that?What do you do with a cancer?

Williamson: Cut it out.

Peterson: Yeah, thats for sure. Poison it, or whatever, whatever.Theres nothing you dont do to a cancer. So are you gonna use ametaphor like that? Theres too many people on the planet?You gonna use a metaphor like that? You know. . . And then youregonna also decide that youre virtuous while youre using. . .Because youre on the side of the planet, whatever the hellthat means? So. . . yeah, its, its unbelievable, and a hugepart of its rooted in this existential shame and, and. . .horror at the condition of being human, and the fact that lifeis rife with suffering, and a lot of its unjustified, and. . .You know, its a Mephistophelian position, so. . . Mephistopheleswas laid out portrayed in Goethes Faust, um. . .thats the story of a man who sold his soul to the devil forknowledge. Its a story of intellectual pride, and Goethe standsin relationship to German literature in the same manner thatShakespeare stands in relationship to English literature.Goethes Mephistopheles says straight out, twice, in the play once in the first theres two books once in the first bookand once in the second Goethe has him restate it twice existence is such a foul thing because of all its suffering,essentially, that it would be better if it was merely annihilated.And thats the Mephistophelian stance this whole show should justcome to a halt, look at how corrupt people are, evil reigns everywhere,its nothing but will to power, were destroying the planetwith our unchecked ambition all rooted in greed and Machiavellianismand jockeying for position, and were so contemptible that weshould just roll up and die. And we should shame women into nothaving children, and we should shame men so they nevermanifest any planet-destroying ambition. And its unbelievablyappalling. It goes all the way down to the bottom. The bottomof things. Thats whats tearin our culture apart, thisdispute about the nature of existence at the most fundamentallevel. So and the universities have come out on thewrong side.++++

Well, you pays your money and. . .

I could almost imagine that Peter Watts was on stage when Jordan Petersongot up and objected. Theyre both Canadian. But Peter Watts isnta professor, hes a sci-fi author.

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