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World Economic Forum’s Transhumanism, Near Death Documented Consciousness, and the Afterlife (part 6)

20 Monday Jun 2022

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WEF Claims that Humans don’t have Souls; They are just Hackable Animals

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The WEF has not made many definitive statements about the soul and the spirit. Their thoughts on this matter are implicit mostly, but Yuval Harari does announce that humans . . .

“should get used to the idea that we are no longer mysterious souls — we are now hackable animals.”

Yuval Harari, Jan. 24th, 2020 WEF Annual Meeting

Speaking from his bias, we see the WEF are metaphysical naturalists: a worldview that assumes only the natural world exists — there is nothing outside of it or beyond the cosmos. Traditionally, such a worldview is at odds with and opposed to theism, any theism. We have seen already that the WEF is set on something far darker than mere metaphysical naturalism. They offer a new brand of religion, a 21st century kind, where the elites, those who control the biotech and programming data, will become the gods who edit genes, design humanity, remove biological living humans, and establish an absolute biotechnocratic tyranny. The U.S. Declaration of Independence warned about agendi that pursue “invariably . . . a design to reduce them under absolute despotism” and said that humanity has not only the right but the duty to throw off such government — and in this case I might advise that such a government should be utterly undone. I cannot think of a better contrast than setting the WEF’s vision for future humanity next to these statement from the U.S. Declaration of Independence.  The WEF wants utter surveillance and degrading of human status to nothing more than hackable animals; the U.S. Declaration of Independence states humanity has inherent value and should have autonomy, or independence.

The way the WEF uses “soul” reflects a platonic or neo-platonic view on it. The soul in that system of thought is the immateriality of humans that survives the death of the body. The WEF combines the notion that human consciousness can be digitally uploaded while holding to metaphysical naturalism. This combination should not be conceivable since it suggests that after death consciousness (or disembodied) can be while holding to metaphysical naturalism that denies after death consciousness can be. This is why the WEF is a technocratic cult more than a shear advancement in reckless science. ‘Soul’ is part and parcel to Western thought; Platonism belongs to that line of thinking; however, the Scriptural notion of ‘soul’ is quite different from Platonism. ‘Nefesh,’ from the Old Testament Hebrew, is sometimes translated as ‘soul’ but it has the meaning of ‘person,’ ‘individual,’ or ‘vitality.’ Scripture does not have a term for ‘person’ or ‘individual’ so ‘soul’ functions to serve that purpose. More than anything, ‘soul’ reflects the living quality of someone or something based on its breathing and it denotes “individuation” or a measure of autonomy. There is a close connection between ‘nefesh’ and the Hebrew ‘nishmat,’ which means ‘breath,’ ‘spirit,’ or ‘wind.’ Nishmat can sometimes be used interchangeably with Ruach, which is the word commonly used for “Spirit” in the phrase “Spirit of God.” When we get into the Greek of the Old Testament (the Septuagint, or LXX) and New Testament , we find psyche is used for soul, but it has nearly the same meaning as the Hebrew counterpart, ‘person,’ or ‘animating vitality.’ The NT uses pneuma for ‘spirit,’ ‘wind,’ ‘breath.’

All this to say that Yuval’s naturalism leaves him with a view of humanity deprived of much of its uniqueness. He says that humans are no longer mysterious souls but hackable animals. There is question begging that Yuval himself seems to transgress since (1) digitally uploading human consciousness is desirable (to the WEF) and (2) because whatever the excellence in computing power and data storage ability that computers or future A.I. have over humans, all this is built from the blueprint of humanity. What makes uploading human consciousness desirable and thus better than uploading the mind of a dolphin, an ape, or a turtle? Where does the logic for computers, for algorithms, comes from? Is it not the human mind? Yuval’s applause for biotech, computer tech, and human innovation leading to the possibility of any of this points to the potency, uniqueness, and the superiority of humanity over other animals. In a naturalist world, a metaphysical naturalist world, isn’t the radical ability over other species quite mysterious? I mean Yuval is comfortable to announce that futurist ‘ex-biological’ human consciousness or A.I. will be the intelligent designers of life’s (or artificial life) future, implying little ‘g’ gods’ abilities akin to being able to create — a category reserved for God and God alone. Psalm 82:6 literally says that humans are called ‘gods’ and Jesus’ quotes this in John 10:34 as a kind of defense against the allegation that Jesus “declares” himself God. That humans would gain such abilities to control the world around them is not at all mysterious in the Psalm 82 world, a world with God who created these incredible images of Himself called humans. It is precisely humanity’s uniqueness in this respect that advances all these marvels! The soul, then, for Yuval is something unimportant all the while seemingly imperative for every advancement he himself champions!

In Judeo-Christian thought, the soul is a summary word for a living, somewhat autonomous, person. It is the spirit of a human that acts as the trans-dimensional bridge between this world and other dimensions. The Spirit of God, the Spirit, crossed the incredible divide between Creator and creation to create what was not. Radical words, aren’t they? “What . . . was . . . not.” Thus, the Spirit crossed that divide; it is the little ‘s’ spirits in humans that have the same capacity to cross from this creatural side to unite with the Creator’s side. The soul, then, is a kind of demarcater of “this life from that life” while it is the spirit in a human that enables transcendence, imagination, self-ascension, to think beyond the bounds, and to commune with the Spirit from whom all spirits came. I’ll need to do another segment on these matters.

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Transhumanism, Near Death Documented Consciousness, and the Afterlife (part 4)

09 Thursday Jun 2022

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The World Economic Forum Takes a Page From Empirical Data on Consciousness after Death to become Gods

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There is a plentitude of empirical, scientific, peer-reviewed data on Near Death Documented Consciousness. Although I opted for using “Near Death” rather than “After Death,” much of this data documents consciousness while someone is dead. For the sake of this discussion, we are uninterested in “experiences” that someone had while dead that cannot be empirically verified. What is scientific or empirical verification? That a person has knowledge of happenings, events, or conversations while her EEG read “dead” or while there is zero brain activity (= death) that they could not have had otherwise, and subsequent to her resuscitation, she reports it and someone, often more disinterested that not, verifies whether it is true or not. There are a host of after death or near-death experiences that people have, a firsthand account of what he saw while dead. They are of no empirical or scientific value because there is no way to falsify a firsthand account that is locked away inside someone’s mind or perceptions. Even Scripture states that every word should be validated by “two or three witnesses” and thus we should leave those out of conversation here. There is a myriad of peer reviewed, empirically verifiable data on Near or After Death Consciousness, from “during death consciousness” to documented “out of body knowledge” to “the non-locality and immateriality” of the quantum or molecular universe. At the end of the article, I have put up a few links to show this empirical data’s existence if someone wants to begin exploring it. Let’s not lose sight, however, of the point of this article; it is not about whether you think the data for after death consciousness is compelling or not but about how the World Economic Forum’s ideology builds on the notion of after death consciousness.

Notably, the WEF’s interest is in disembodied digitized consciousness, and we experience the WEF’s interest through cultural influence campaigns the likes of the Amazon series, “Upload.” Although it is usually psychologists, psychiatrists, and spiritual-vocation persons, that express and incite interest in near and after death consciousness, we have a new massively powerful group entering this conversation: the global elite, the WEF, who we might just call “dehumanizing digital futurists.” They shockingly bridge the gap between atheist and new religion; one of their chief spokespersons, Yuval Harari, arguing that this is one of the new 21st century religions. The shear fact that these digital futurists have found a potential way (if they can actualize it) to propose a new atheistic religion is no small feat. Who would have thought that computer programmers would form a main vector in advancing knowledge on near/after death consciousness or disembodied consciousness? Big issues that are caused to be readdress because of this new intellectual movement include “what is death,” “what does it mean to be human,” “what is the nature of information,” “what is the body as it relates to being human,” “is there a spirit in each person,” “would you want to exist in a disembodied space,” “what about the knowledge of what is lost if/when you become digitized,” “is what is gained better than all that is lost in becoming a disembodied consciousness.”

An oddity is the makeup of the WEF: that it sits on the cutting edge of technology and science. Historically, science is viewed as at odds with religion, theism, or any non-naturalistic or non-materialistic views of the world. Said differently, science as an ideology (sometimes called scientism) and worldview is usually metaphysical naturalism or philosophical materialism. The exact definitions of all these are unimportant here; the point is that ‘humans’ from a mainstream scientific view is either viewed as nothing but its physical materiality (the body, brain, finger, toes, etc.) or all that humanity is derives itself from strictly natural processes — hence Darwinism, evolution, adaptation, etc. The WEF is, based on their dismissal of any God-ward worldview, presumably naturalists of one type or another, yet they bring in traditional concepts from religion like “intelligent design,” “disembodied consciousness,” “eternal life,” and “gods.” There is certainly an apotheosis in their worldview, which is traditionally put in the category of mythology, religion, or paganism, yet here we are. Should we call this WEF worldview apotheotic naturalism? What the WEF is trying to do here — in creating a new worldview and issuing a call for eugenicide on biological humanity — must be recognized as ambitious in the extreme. Perhaps it is delusions of grandeur, perhaps it is reckless, or perhaps there is something more sinister at play.

The proposition that human consciousness could be digitized so that the “mind” goes on while the “brain” dies would call for a redefining of both “life” and “death.” Similarly, if this could be done, the debate about dualism, about whether the mind is different from the brain, might finally be settled. Much research and debate has gone into precisely what the brain is: at least one version of this takes the brain as a receptor and sender of human consciousness. Could human consciousness be facilitated without the brain as the WEF proposes? Would we still call it human consciousness if so or would it be synthetic post human consciousness? When I first thought about these things it sounded much like science fiction, yet Elon Musk’s neural-link and Syncron’s computer-controlling human body parts makes this futurist “fiction” look much closer on the horizon. Do not hear me wrong: I am only preliminarily reflecting on this new technology and the WEF’s post-human proposals, but I find it discomforting, immoral, and just a bad idea all around. Next time, I will get into the 1st and 2nd Laws of Thermodynamics (entropy) as to why the WEF’s vision of digital apotheosis is so misguided.

In summary, we might say that the WEF wants to forge a world with consciousness apart from the human body. The empirical data from the field of after death documented consciousness provides the WEF with a scientific data set that shows that the proposition, “Consciousness without the body is possible,” is true. The WEF seems to be trying to make a counter argument to the spiritual and religious people, who have for millennia claimed that humanity survives the death of their body. The WEF might say, as Harari has intimated on more than one occasion, it is not some metaphysical spirit or soul that continues on, but it is consciousness as an electrical and data-bit set. In this way, it might be possible for the WEF to advance a narrative of their new digital religion while staying true to metaphysical naturalism, staying true to a universe that does not involve God or gods, well, at least no gods other than themselves.

https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/JNDS/browse/?q=consciousness&t=metadata&sort=

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1505485/m1/5/?q=after%20death

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799125/m1/3/?q=after%20death

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc461716/?q=consciousness

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1727986/?q=consciousness

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799308/?q=empirical

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799442/?q=empirical

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc461717/?q=empirical

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc461722/?q=empirical

https://iands.org/research/publications/journal-of-near-death-studies.html

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