Beyond Machine Man Quotes

Volume 2

Jun 10

Happily presenting the second collection of what will probably be a total of three, maybe four volumes. Almost all of the quotes I have already shared on various social media channels starting three years before the book got published in 2021 (giving you an idea of how long it took to research and write Beyond Machine Man) plus a bit over one year thereafter – giving you a glimpse of the passion I still have for the subject matters discussed, plus the importance I ascribe to them.

Understanding the rather mind-boggling conclusions reached in The Ten Theses will bring about quite a few most important benefits on a personal level. And collectively, this knowledge quite simply has “the potential to unite the deeply divided, to break the curse of racism, and solve the many social, economical and ecological problems still plaguing us today.”

Of course, every quote is taken out of context and may therefore not always make much sense. Or none at all. Some could even be a bit upsetting, especially to readers who are thoroughly attached to the many predominant – but demonstrably wrong – narratives of Machine Man (or Homo Machina).

The Ten Theses, as incredible as they may sound at first, are simply the logical culmination reached upon the careful study and analysis of both multi-disciplinary and cutting-edge Machine Man science while strictly applying the Sherlock Holmes model of deduction (among other principles following the scientific method).

Please note that while discussing transhumanism we mainly focus on its foremost premises like solving the problem of our mortality, curing all disease, augmenting our bodies, uploading our minds, and so on. These days, many quite popular writers seem to confuse transhumanism with other agendas like eugenics and population control or technocratic authoritarianism and the ever-expanding surveillance state.

Sure, some proponents of the latter nefarious agendas are also pursuing transhumanist objectives. But only for themselves! The typical normal transhumanist however is simply an enthusiastic, usually well-intentioned and perhaps a bit desperate technophile wanting to live forever. Happily and healthily. They may be naive dreamers, but surely are not psychopathic control freaks (like the others).

The only common denominator of all of the above agendas is that they are all inherent and therefore inevitable consequences of the currently still prevailing Machine Man dogma.

Ultimately, transhumanism is just an empty promise by people who are mortally afraid of dying.
~ Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!

Anomalies essentially prove that the impossible is indeed possible.
~ Arne Klingenberg

There simply is no randomness in intelligent achievements, and neither are they just hallucinations of assorted user illusions created by capricious brains.
~ Arne Klingenberg (Beyond Machine Man)

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.”
~ Arne Klingenberg

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.
~ Arne Klingenberg

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.
~ Arne Klingenberg

Fake it until you make it only works if you can convincingly lie to yourself.
~ Arne Klingenberg (Beyond Machine Man)

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.
~ Arne Klingenberg

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.
~ Arne Klingenberg

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.
~ Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!

From bit to it (information to matter) however is only partially true.
~ Arne Klingenberg

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.
~ Arne Klingenberg (Beyond Machine Man)

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?
~ Arne Klingenberg

Limiting our minds makes the possible impossible.
~ Arne Klingenberg

So what is it, nature or nurture? In short, it is both and neither.
~ Arne Klingenberg (Beyond Machine Man)

P.S.
All quotes may be freely republished provided they are left unchanged and full credit is given.

Arne Klingenberg

Beyond Machine Man Quotes

Volume 2

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