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Dirk Habenschaden, Oct 22, 2023

RED'N'BLUE — A Visual Generative AI Exploration about Transhumanism

The quest to make people into gods.

In the halls of the transhumanists, the conviction has long been brewing that our evolution must take a new course. The aim is to enhance the mental, physical, and cognitive state of humanity and to overcome the burdensome finitude of existence.

The science of the transhumanists presses for this pact between nature and technology.

RED'n'BLUE is the visual expression of my perspective, but certainly also an expression of my fear of this development.

I ask myself, where then does the divine reside within us? Where does our creative power remain? In Google's cloud? Will we ultimately become soulless, endlessly interconnected bodies controlled by the technology of a few corporate giants?

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"I placed you in the midst of the world so that you might more easily observe and see all that is within it. I created you as a being, neither heavenly nor earthly, neither mortal nor immortal alone, so that you may be your own free shaper and conqueror; you have the capacity to degenerate into a beast and to be reborn as a god-like being… You alone have a progression, a growth by free will, you have the seeds of a life of all kinds within you."

Pico della Mirandola „De hominis dignitate"
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The ultimate goal is to completely transcend the human body, perhaps by replacing more and more parts of it with machines, and eventually uploading the brain onto a computer. Transhumanists ultimately seek to achieve human immortality and divinity.

Christopher Coenen, scientist at the Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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If you can't beat the machine, it's best to become one yourself.

Elon Musk
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The power of individuals to make of themselves what they please also signifies the power of a few to make of others what pleases them.

C.S. Lewis, The Abolition Of Man
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Even science can give rise to new religions; it doesn't require a god. The most intriguing place for this today is the Silicon Valley. It's akin to ancient Rome in the days of early Christianity, where new religions are born in the minds of individuals. What is currently emerging could be termed a Techno-Religion.

Yuval Harari
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Thx for reading.

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