TOMORROW: Dallas, TX — "Cyborg Theocracy: The Rise of Digital Deities"
At First Baptist Church (downtown) at 5:30 pm
Silicon Valley icons tell us they are creating machines that can think as well as any human being alive. Soon after that, computers will out-think the best of us.
On the machine side, they say, we will have superhuman AI and humanoid robots. On the human side, we will get brain-computer interfaces—actual neural implants—and genetically engineered babies.
We are told that this "inevitable progress" will not only be good for us, it will be the ultimate fulfillment of human potential.
How do we plan for the future when "progress" means humanity is either totally transformed or finally erased? What power do we have in the face of "godlike" machines?
I argue that in the face of this unholy invasion, our bodies must be kept sacred and our spiritual core must be protected.
My talk will be on Sunday, September 29 at 5:30 pm
First Baptist Church
1707 San Jacinto St.
Dallas, TX
75201
C’mon down!!
NOTE: Substack has yet to resolve my issues for the Omega Point Podcast, but don’t worry — we’ll be back!
ICYMI
The Omniwar is Everywhere
The Omniwar Symposium was well worth watching in full. It hits many points I’ve been covering for years now, from transhuman ambition to religious inversion. Even so, there was plenty of new material for me to sink my teeth into. All the presenters are admirably learned and articulate, so the info went down easy.
Rock on, Joe - keep up the good work, a voice presenting the bigger picture like yours is indispensable during this dark age of delusion!!
"Today’s Transhumanists rush to establish a race of biodigital Frankensteins. Hypnotized by wet dreams of enhancement, they attach wings to a caterpillar and call it a butterfly, ignore the pulse of their own breathing beings hidden behind a heartless view of the Universe, and charge headlong in passionate pursuit of some contrived delusional notion of ‘progress’.
By the 2020s we find ourselves commandeered by a technology whose algorithms and oh so virtual artificial intelligence are often regarded as a model to emulate in real life, sacrificing our very own minds in a blind displacement of genuine thinking. Is it any wonder we find our entire species in the diamond lane on the highway to extinction?
We have long lost sight of our true nature as fundamentally heart centered spiritual creatures of energy, functionally supported in life by the processor that is our brain. Artificial Intelligence profoundly exacerbates the long standing capture of culture by the Cartesian delusion that we are mind centered beings – cold, calculating data processors serviced by a simple pump in our chest, who traverse an exclusively physical Universe.
In all worlds AI, ‘Love’ can never be more than an empty word peeling off of a line of code."
https://bohobeau.net/2023/03/21/we-lie-with-ai/
Confess your sins to the Techno Gods . . . what can go wrong !? hahahahaha