Immanence for transcendence: confronting the techno-theological eschatology of posthuman speculative science
DeLashmutt, Michael
Date: 2006
Journal
GOLEM: Journal of Religion and Monsters
Publisher
GOLEM: Journal of Religion and Monsters
Abstract
Posthuman speculative science, typified by the writings of Hans Moravec, Frank Tipler, and Ray Kurzweil, evinces a faith in technology’s capacity to transform the future destiny of humankind. For these thinkers technology, and in particular
information technology, will provide the means by which present-day humanity or its
descendents ...
Posthuman speculative science, typified by the writings of Hans Moravec, Frank Tipler, and Ray Kurzweil, evinces a faith in technology’s capacity to transform the future destiny of humankind. For these thinkers technology, and in particular
information technology, will provide the means by which present-day humanity or its
descendents will participate in their posthuman evolution, thus ushering in an
eschatological kingdom marked by the end of human and cosmic finitude. This paper
will critique the implied techno-theology of this posthuman eschatology and offer as
its counterpoint a theology of technology informed by a Christian hermeneutical
framework.
Classics, Ancient History, Religion and Theology
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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