Ep 5: James Hughes, Religious Transhumanism & the Longevity Dividend
Micah Redding & James Hughes explore cyber-Buddhism, religious transhumanism, and the longevity dividend, covering topics like Universal Basic Income, the Christian theology of personal identity, and the importance of a powerful vision for the future.
- Projects from Dr Hughes: Citizen Cyborg, Cyborg Buddha and the IEET
- The experience of being an unusual transhumanist
- Pentecostalism and altered states of consciousness
- The longevity dividend
- Technological unemployment & Universal Basic Income
- The Christian theology of personal identity - and how it connects to transhumanism and Buddhism
- Why it's better to read a book than to do meth
- Ted Peters & the soul, or...Substance Dualism, and why robots might go to heaven
- Jesus, the imago dei, and the ultimate limits of human transformation
- The "rapture of the nerds", Christian millennialism, and the good apocalypse
- Nick Bostrom's contribution to theology
- "Smug atheists should read more science fiction" - Charlie Jane Anders
- What religious transhumanists can do for the world
- "Without a vision, the people perish" - Proverbs 29:18