Some aspects of Alife seemed to be pretty similar to the stuff mentioned by Paul Virilio in Crepuscular Dawn, and that may be due to the fact that everything in the future links. The idea of trying to evolve and become better is present in how life is today and it will only continue being an essential part of life, even when posthumans and the singularity become a reality. Transhumanism is a very interesting and intriguing concept because it is rooted in the idea of defying death and other natural components of life, like aging. It can be admirable that people try to not be so complacent and actually try to fight back, but trying to defy death seems to be as something that could backfire. Transhumanism or posthumanism is transcending the limitations …show more content…
2000). This fundamentally means that a person’s mind is uploaded into a computational substrate, so the brain will not experience disease or decay. Nonetheless, other things need to be discussed before going deeper into that topic. It seems likely to transhumanists that there will be superintelligent machines that grace this planet. However, they do not just want to live near them as servants, they want to “keep up” with them (p. 2000). Consequentially, the transhumanists would always be augmenting their human intelligence so they can always “match the best artificial intelligence” (p. 2000). One way of keeping up with machine superintelligence is to simply “employ sophisticated AI technology as a tool” (p. 2000). As Shanahan states, this is essentially what humans had been doing thus far. However, transhumanists believe that using AI technology as a tool is not enough in order to keep up with it, they would rather merge with it. In other words, Sophisticated AI technology would be interfaced directly to their brains, and the AI technology and the mind would work as one “bio-machine hybrid species” of astonishingly never seen before intellectual