{"id":1432289,"date":"2022-04-12T08:03:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T12:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1432289"},"modified":"2022-04-12T08:03:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T12:03:20","slug":"elon-musks-disturbing-dalliance-with-transhumanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musks-disturbing-dalliance-with-transhumanism\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Disturbing Dalliance With Transhumanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musks-disturbing-dalliance-with-transhumanism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1432289&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/musck-e1649699988839.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Last week, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\/twitter-appoints-elon-musk-to-board\">became the largest shareholder<\/a> of Twitter, owning 9.2 percent of the company. Musk, who has criticized Twitter\u2019s lack of free speech for its users, was appointed as a board member of the company at the time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy,\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1507777261654605828\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter in March. But Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\/elon-musk-declines-to-join-twitter-board-of-directors\">declined<\/a> to join the company\u2019s board on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Many conservatives were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/conservatives-elon-musk-reinstate-donald-trump-twitter-account-1694805\">excited about the prospect<\/a> of Musk\u2019s new influence at the social media company. Musk has failed to tread lightly around the ever-evolving mores of the modern political left, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-musk-factbox\/factbox-elon-musk-protest-tweets-against-coronavirus-lockdowns-idUSKBN22C3NU\">calling<\/a> Covid-19 lockdown measures \u201cfascist,\u201d publicly supporting Canadian truckers protesting vaccine mandates, and criticizing Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d spending bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Musk would be more of a hero if it was obvious that he thought of humanity as more than a highly advanced algorithm.<\/p>\n<h2>Survive as a Cyborg<\/h2>\n<p>Musk told the World Government Summit in 2017 that as humanity\u2019s daily dependence on technology increases, humans should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/elon-musk-says-the-future-of-humanity-depends-on-us-merging-with-machines\">simply merge with machines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo some degree, we are already a cyborg,\u201d Musk told the audience at the summit. For Musk, becoming a cyborg \u2014 a sort of superhuman with both biological and technological capabilities \u2014 is only one step away. Think Iron Man. <\/p>\n<p>We all love a good superhero movie, but anyone who\u2019s seen one knows what happens to the innocent bystanders. Mary Shelley <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frankenstein\">warned us about this more than 200 years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Become a human-robot hybrid yourself, Musk argues, and mankind may still end up on top when the inevitable robot wars come. True, <em>if<\/em> the purpose of humanity is simply mere survival, then why should we not ensure our immortal existence as highly intelligent yet soulless machines?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think one of the solutions that seems maybe the best is to add an AI layer,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/elon-musk-says-we-re-going-to-need-brain-implants-to-compete-with-ai\">Musk said<\/a> in an interview in 2016,\u00a0\u201cJust as your cortex works symbiotically with your limbic system, your third digital layer could work symbiotically with you.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/739006012749799424\">Twitter<\/a>, Musk announced another method by which we could create \u201csymbiosis with machines\u201d \u2014 neural lace. Science Alert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/elon-musk-says-we-re-going-to-need-brain-implants-to-compete-with-ai\">describes<\/a> neural lace as, \u201ca brain implant that can augment natural intelligence by hooking us up to computers.\u201d Musk is, it appears, placing his actions behind his words, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2020\/05\/08\/musk-grimes-baby-name\/\">naming his son<\/a> a string of letters and numbers (X \u00c6 A-12) that\u2019s more reminiscent of a \u201cStar Wars\u201d-style robot than a human child.<\/p>\n<h2>Musk Another Tech-Obsessed Billionaire<\/h2>\n<p>Musk founded a company in 2016 to <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/03\/17\/brain-chips-pew-survey-elon-musk-neuralink\/\">create a chip<\/a> that would be surgically implanted into the brain. Initially, Musk plans to nobly use this technology to, \u201cenable someone with paralysis to use a smartphone with their mind faster than someone using thumbs.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But Musk shows no signs of halting this innovation after assisting quadriplegics. Musk believes we are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/elon-musk-says-we-re-probably-characters-in-some-advanced-civilisation-s-video-game\">likely a simulation<\/a> in an advanced civilization\u2019s high-tech video game, and his brain chip company Neuralink <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/longform\/neuralink-brain-computer-interface-chip-implant-elon-musk\/\">could start testing on humans<\/a> within the year, according to Fortune. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s support for a sort of transhumanist future is in line with that of the World Economic Forum\u2019s founder Klaus Schwab, who wrote a book, \u201cThe Fourth Industrial Revolution,\u201d on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/about\/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-by-klaus-schwab\">how the physical and digital worlds<\/a> could be fused, \u201cchallenging ideas about what it means to be human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other than the occasional right-of-center opinion, Musk is a technology-obsessed billionaire with little sense of respect for the inherent dignity of humans as created in the image of God. At best, his philosophy is a decent method of managed defeat to the technological overlords bent on ushering in the era of transhumanism.<\/p>\n<p>A headline for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencetimes.com\/articles\/36856\/20220329\/live-longer-150-years-metaverse-willing-permanently-leave-physical-body.htm\">a recent article<\/a> at The Science Times read: \u201cLive Longer for 150 Years in Metaverse But Only If You Are Willing to Permanently Leave Your Physical Body and Become a Living App.\u201d The temptation to \u201cbe ye as Gods\u201d and live forever in our own strength is as old as the Garden of Eden. C.S. Lewis called the progress of \u201capplied science\u201d \u2014 his term for technology \u2014 \u201cman\u2019s conquest over nature.\u201d Once emancipated from the constraints of nature, Lewis argues, \u201cthe conditioners\u201d see no real limit to their control.<\/p>\n<p>As technology continues to advance at a shocking pace, some harbor a not-too-distant hope to finally achieve immortality by the strength of their own genius. In a scientific age of limitlessness, it is of the utmost importance that individuals in power possess decent respect for the dignity of mankind, especially insofar as it conflicts with the progress of science. <\/p>\n<p>Eternal life is only worth pursuing if we have any idea what \u201clife\u201d really is. Is it a simulation or a divine miracle? Musk wants brain implants so we can live forever. After all, who <em>doesn\u2019t <\/em>want to live forever? <\/p>\n<p>But Musk never considers if humanity is more than a data set, and the question of life is not merely whether we can keep said data set \u201crunning.\u201d There is a mystery to human life which should remain at the mercy of the Creator.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Sarah Weaver is a graduate student at Hillsdale College. You can read more of her work as well as contact her through her website at sarah-weaver.net. Find Sarah on Twitter @SarahHopeWeaver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk became the largest shareholder of Twitter, owning 9.2 percent of the company. 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