Bioengineering: Human beings fully exploit their potential within the existing body structure

Cyborg Engineering: Combining a variety of non-organic devices, retaining the organic brain as the core

If the mind changes from carbon-based to silicon-based, the structure of the mind changes, Homo sapiens disappears, and human history comes to an end.

The above refers to "humanity as a whole", not most individual people.

This is a historical prediction, not a political goal

Pursuit may not necessarily lead to success

Forecasting is not for the purpose of prophecy. Predictions can change the future after discussion.

Each expert has his or her own specialty. No one understands the entire system. No one knows where the brakes are.

The modern economy can only grow endlessly, and the brakes will collapse. It can only pursue sustainable goals: immortality, happiness, and divinity. (The three are inseparable)

Humans exterminated and conquered other large animals and dominated the world

Humans, like other animals, have a set of biological algorithms for reproduction. Emotions and desires help us find paths quickly.

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If the soul evolved, then it would be contrary to the nature of evolution for it to be an indivisible, eternal entity.

If the soul suddenly appeared in a human being, it is unimaginable that there was no trace of soul before him or his parents.

If everything is in our neuron network, why separate the mind?

If the mind is higher than the neural network, then where is it?

Animals can only imagine what actually exists

One can imagine intersubjective things, but they have real and powerful power, such as countries, companies, laws, etc.

People organize large-scale collaboration through fictional stories. This is the fundamental reason why human power is amplified and dominates the world.

If you want to decipher the future of mankind, you must decipher the various fictional imaginations that give meaning to the world.

Words allow people to organize society in an algorithmic way. Each person completes a small step, and the final important decision is judged by the entire algorithm. This is the essence of the bureaucracy.

The state issues a piece of paper and forces citizens to use this piece of paper to pay taxes. Citizens have no choice, but the market develops.

We should distinguish between reality and fiction. The status of reality is of course higher than fiction. The euro can depreciate but it is not painful.

In the future, there will be more powerful fictional concepts and more totalitarian organizations, so it is particularly important to distinguish between reality and fiction.

Fictional stories make it easier for humans to cooperate, but the cost is that stories also determine the goals of our cooperation

Religion is not the same as superstition. What you believe must be "truth"; only what others believe can be "superstition"

Religion is not supernatural, it is natural for people who believe in demons, gods, spirits

Religion is not a question of whether you believe in "God"

Religion is not the same as spirituality

Religion is an all-encompassing set of stories that gives human laws, norms, and values ​​greater legitimacy than the average human being

If science wants to create a viable human system, it will inevitably need the assistance of religion. Research facts but do not make ethical judgments

Religion does not merely govern ethical judgments; it always contains statements of fact.

Science and religion are easier to compromise and cooperate than imagined

Modern history is actually a process of coming to terms between science and a specific religion (humanism). Modern society believes in humanism, and science is not to question, but to realize its dogma.

Humanist Politics: Voters can make the best choices

Humanistic Economics: The customer is always right

Humanistic Aesthetics: The person who sees it thinks it is beautiful, it is beautiful

Humanistic Ethics: If it feels right, do it

Humanistic education: think for yourself

Classical Orthodoxy: Liberalism. Everyone is a unique person with experiences that will never be repeated

Branch One: Social Humanism. Socialism blames liberalism for focusing too much on one's own feelings and ignoring the experiences of others.

Branch Two: Evolutionary Humanism. The conflict of various experiences and feelings is inevitable, and the fittest wins.

The basis of liberalism is that people have free will, and this is proven by facts

Fact statement science can intervene

According to the theory of evolution, all so-called "selections" of animals are responses to genetic codes.

Liberalism believes that everyone has a single, indivisible self

Split-brain experiment, self is physically separable

Ice water experiment, people have two selves: experiencing self and narrative self

Biology is algorithms. Every animal (including Homo sapiens) is an evolved collection of algorithms

The action of the algorithm is not affected by the constituent substances. Whether the beads of an abacus are made of iron or wood makes no difference to the calculation.

As long as the calculation is correct, there is no difference between silicon-based or carbon-based

Humanity as a whole will still have value, but individuals will no longer have authority and most choices will be governed by external algorithms

Human beings have absolutely no value

The mechanism of the economy is to collect data about desires and abilities and then translate them into decisions

Capitalism won the Cold War not because it was more ethical or because God was angry with the Soviet Union, but because at this stage decentralized data processing was better than centralized

Democracy and autocracy are essentially two opposing mechanisms for collecting and analyzing information.

If data cannot be processed in a limited manner, the noble institutions of the past such as elections, political parties, and parliaments may become obsolete.

Authoritarian regimes are also unable to cope with the speed and volume of data flows

There are 4 ways to improve efficiency

Humanity has gone through 4 stages of development

The first commandment of dataism: connect more and more media and generate more and more information

The second commandment of dataism: Connect everything to the system, even the heretics who don’t want to join

Dataism believes that experience has no value if it is not shared, and people do not need (or even cannot) find meaning in their own hearts. What we have to do is wait for the algorithm to figure out the meaning

As long as there are better algorithms and data, human biological algorithms will naturally be eliminated

The Internet of Everything itself has a sacred meaning

Dataism is as much a threat to humans as humans are to other animals. Data doesn’t care about our subjective needs

Question 1: Is biology really just algorithms, and life really just data processing?

Question 2: Which one is more valuable, intelligence or consciousness?

Question 3: How will society, politics, and daily life change when unconscious but highly intelligent algorithms know us better than we do?

Animism: Humans have equal status with other animals

Theism: Christianity, God first, man second

Atheism: evolution, humanism, human beings are the most precious

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Three major assumptions of humanism shattered

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