Beyond Machine Man Quotes
Facts and (Science) Fictions
Welcome to selected quotes from my latest book, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!
All quotes are taken out of context, yet there’s still much to empower, enlighten and entertain! There is no particular order and not all chapters and topics are represented here, nor are the astonishing conclusions revealed as formulated in The Ten Theses Beyond Machine Man.
Happy Wondering & Pondering.
All quotes may be freely republished provided they are left unchanged and full credit is given.
Transhumanism after all is a project of the elite continuing the ancient occult pursuit of becoming immortal gods and rule happily ever after.
Non-reductive physicalism is the very widespread philosophical view that mind and consciousness cannot be reduced to matter but are still caused by matter; essentially it is Machine Man believing in magic without admitting it.
Not knowing any of the basic answers to all of the crucial questions however is certainly no obstacle to diehard disciples of transhumanism and their newly-found religion for atheists. And a religion it sure is; it is featuring all the required hallmarks and dogmatic beliefs.
The placebo and nocebo effect proves both optimists and pessimists right.
Sadly, the schizophrenic belief in a non-existent unconscious has turned many people into confused schizophrenics, and will likely continue to do so.
But of course, it is perfectly fine with me if Machine Man scientists want to consider themselves to be just slow and hallucinating user illusions, as long as they only speak for themselves.
Just because something cannot be explained or measured does not mean that it does not happen or exist.
Which of course would raise the hypothetical question of who would really be in charge of it all: the magically suddenly conscious machine or the essence of the billionaire whose body (and brain) has died?
Well, maybe they would take turns in some kind of futuristic marriage arrangement. Till death do them part. Or rather, something else like the repeated failure to pay their mutual electricity bills or ordering crucial spare parts in time.
Or maybe it is their endless posthuman squabbling about differing romantic needs, choices of food or political preferences that will lead to a literally messy divorce or some gory domestic violence that may very well prove fatal. Who knows.
The failure to locate physical traces of memory should also not be all that surprising upon considering the fundamental reality of Molecular Turnover.
Real science is never really settled even though nowadays it is claimed to be by basically corrupt politicians controlled by selfish billionaires for nefarious political and economic purposes; they just love to parade their personal selection of questionable scientists in public while completely ignoring or outright censoring the many real experts who say otherwise.
We all have the power to decide what we think and believe or how we feel and act at any given moment in our lives; it is probably best to never ever give away this power to anyone, for any reasons.
Re the illusion of free will postulated by modern neuroscience:
But that whimsical and supposedly scientific experiment* is being used to state with the full magnitude and absolute authority of science that there is no free will. Incredible but true.
*as revealed and fully refuted in the book.
Sadly, a human-hating attitude is widely shared among equally self-hating elitists who mistake their ruthlessness for intelligence.
Homo Digitalis [the transhumanist subspecies of Machine Man] believes that they are the most rational people ever. They claim to only believe in what science says. Yet amazingly, most actually don't seem to know what neuroscience really says about who they are.
The same mental health experts also say that we should “fake it until you make it.” It is one of their attempts to reprogram what does not exist, to foolishly fool a supposedly foolish unconscious or subconscious mind.
If we really were only a hallucinating user illusion, a conscious mind that has nothing to say and can only observe the machinations of the subconscious mind, both supposedly being the creations of the brain, why would we want to transfer the brain's illusions anyway?
Ultimately, transhumanism is just an empty promise by people who are mortally afraid of dying.
Anomalies essentially prove that the impossible is indeed possible.
There simply is no randomness in intelligent achievements, and neither are they just hallucinations of assorted user illusions created by capricious brains.
What is not allowed to be true, cannot be true, even though it is. Or, “He who has the gold and pays the scientists makes the rules.
Despite their complete lack of knowledge and understanding about the very basics of consciousness, Machine Man still insists with a religious fervor that is cloaked in the mantle of science that consciousness can only arise out of particles that have no consciousness.
Not even one of all these psychotropic medications came about as the result of deliberate rational drug design based on existing scientific insights or cutting-edge research.
Fake it until you make it only works if you can convincingly lie to yourself.
And likewise, cryogenically frozen brains, with or without their bodies still attached, a favorite insurance policy play of the very wealthy and desperately hopeful, are still dead too. Just like the frozen steaks in your freezer department (or frozen tofu, for vegans). They will never ever turn into a living and grazing cow again (or sprouting soybean), no matter the hyped and hoped for technology to be.
The day pharmaceutical companies can willfully design and make drugs that are totally free of any and all negative side effects is the time we can trust that they truly know what they are doing.
Homo Digitalis hates the very idea of a God, but loves to play God by creating algorithms they hope will turn into a God to first serve then rule us all.
From bit to it (information to matter) however is only partially true.
The continually proclaimed and therefore very widely believed story about a chemical imbalance in the brain that needs to be corrected is pure fiction; there is no scientific basis or factual evidence at all. Actually, the very opposite is true: these drugs are causing an imbalance of neurotransmitters in the brain.
Why should I have to pay my speeding tickets when the culprits were unknown twitches of my brain and its hallucinating user illusion that made the car go faster than some other user illusions deemed to be the maximum speed limit?
Limiting our minds makes the possible impossible.
So what is it, nature or nurture? In short, it is both and neither.
Even a most detailed temporary snapshot of our brains will not magically make us alive again when it is run as a software version on a computer that operates an artificial robot body.
Beliefs that are aligned with truths usually bring happiness, and vice versa.
The problem with the easy problems is only that they too are actually hard problems since none of them have been solved yet.
In the meantime, in sharp contrast and not at all surprising, Machine Man psychologists are literally afraid of their brains.
P.S. The whole paragraph reads like this:
In the meantime, in sharp contrast and not at all surprising, Machine Man psychologists are literally afraid of their brains. They say that our brains have a neural bias for negativity and will release stressful hormones and neurotransmitters whenever we think or say negative words of any kind, like 'no' or 'disease' and 'poverty' or 'death.' Even worse, for them, they believe that their brains only barely respond to positive thoughts and words.
People with widely scattered minds are more likely to become victims of hypnosis, brainwashing or other forms of conditioning than those who can stay highly aware and sharply focused.
Software that is generally referred to as Artificial Intelligence (AI) will never come even close to natural intelligence (NI) which we still don't understand at all.
Why do fanatical ego-bashers always have the biggest egos?
Every cause produces a corresponding effect, so an intelligent effect is likely caused by an intelligent cause.
It is statistically impossible that every of billions of intelligent effects is caused by dumb luck.
Even if half of all intelligent effects were caused by dumb luck, who or what is the intelligence behind the other half?
If simple subatomic particles can immediately change their properties even while thousands of light-years apart, then it is surely possible to also happen within the cells of our bodies and brains.
Selfish and silly short-term thinking is simply inherent in Machine Man philosophy.
Machine Man faithfully believes that a conscious intelligent mind came from unconscious dumb matter, by sheer luck and for no reason or purpose.
“You're a quack,” said the quack. Or nowadays, “You're a racist,” said the racist.
By the verdict of today's science we are said to be uninvolved virtuous victims who are pushed and shoved around by the mysterious spasms of our brains, respectively the unknowable intentions and machinations of the unconscious.
Believing in a non-existent unconscious simply reveals the not knowing about how the mind and our memory fundamentally works or who we really are.
Never mind the details, Homo Digitalis hopes to perpetually enjoy highly augmented forms of cybersex and other superlative sensual and intellectual delights. Besides totally awesome physical prowess. To forever lord over the ordinary folks that can't possibly afford any such things. Sorry, but regular folks just have to keep dying. After they've finished a lifetime full of hard work, that is. Doing the things robots can't do yet. Or will refuse to do because it would simply be beneath them.
Why should or how could any of our thoughts be real or beliefs be true if they really were the mere product of inexplicable and mostly random movements of atoms in our brains?
The technique [CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing] results in far more errors than previously thought. And worse, it is also more difficult to actually find and eliminate such defective and unwanted outcomes. Which of course is not exactly what transhumanist hopefuls would like to hear.
Indeed, the very indecisive among us are further proof of free will.
P.S. The whole paragraph reads like this:
Indeed, the very indecisive among us are further proof of free will; they keep thinking and evaluating options, sometimes seemingly forever, until they finally, finally make a decision! So they who? Who is the they? Who are the people we like to call procrastinators? Just slow brains? A collection of slow-circuited brain cells that can't make up their 'collective minds' (whatever that is supposed to mean)?
What is a life worth in a purely random world of mere matter where anything goes and nothing matters?
This further demonstrates that our memories are a mental function of our minds, not a physical feature of the neurons in our brains. How could something be recalled that wasn't even there in the first place?
Obviously, there is no machinery we can build that comes even remotely close to this kind of miniaturized marvel of biological engineering. Beaten by a single-celled bacteria (without a PhD).
Furthermore, AI (a.k.a. automated idiots) will not exceed HI (human intelligence). And computers will never become conscious (as consciousness is not made by matter or bits and bytes), or God-like (as in turning into some kind of super intelligent, all-knowing and all-powerful sentient entity or being).
Once we fully realize again who we really are, we will automatically experience more of our true inherent positive feelings and less negative emotions.
Oops, your baby girl will just have to live with a lot of rather long facial hair, besides having only three fingers and four toes. But don't worry, we now know the problem and it will be fixed on your next child.
There is nothing that can truly allay this ultimate of fears for diehard believers in Machine Man philosophy who as a consequence often do die needlessly hard.
In short, messing around with our genes, upsetting a finely balanced ecosystem, creating genomic instability, and disrupting the functionality of otherwise perfectly normal genes is just not a very smart idea. Machine Man still has to wise up to the basic formula of 'If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it.' Especially so since any damage done cannot be reverted back to normal, and even worse, will affect many future generations to come.
Perhaps one day, quantum physics will be able to show that we, the who we really are, cause constant quantum collapses with our thoughts and deliberations, with our observations and desires.
What would be the value of recovering and preserving all of our past hallucinations, if that were even possible? It would be like a digital photo album nobody ever watches. Who would really care to see or feel every mental and emotional mirage the mere illusions of aunt Margaret or uncle Bill ever had over the course of their lifetimes?
It really should read like this: The brain's illusory creation of a subconscious mind later informs yet another illusion, the conscious mind, of the decisions it took. Got it? It's simple really, once you get used to confused thinking.
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~ Graham Hancock
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