Ep 5: James Hughes, Religious Transhumanism & the Longevity Dividend

The Christian Transhumanist Podcast

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

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