The Debate on Cyber-Immortality and Eternal Life
Could this have been the motto proposed by a transhumanist communicator for the event on “immortality, eternal youth and death” organized at Medialab Matadero in Madrid on July 11, 2024, based on the public program curated by Amaia Sánchez-Velasco and Jorge Valiente Oriol from Grandeza Studio, within the framework of his research project titled “Revisiting Titono: Tentacular Geographies of Eternal Youth.”
At this meeting, I had the opportunity to participate in a round table organized together with María A. Blasco, biomolecular researcher and scientific director of the National Cancer Research Center, and Igor Bragado, architect and co-director of the study Common Accounts design concept.
Before the event, I had a clarifying conversation about cybernetic immortality, the technological Singularity, and optional death with a defender of the bioideology of transhumanism and posthumanism. Here are some of the key points discussed:
Consciousness Containers for Cyber Immortality
(H+) “The transhuman future will soon take us to a new level of consciousness: it is time, then, to adjust new non-biological antennas and gradually acquire a form of cyber-immortality.”
(AC) From a spiritual point of view, for example, conscience is the inner space of listening to the truth, to the good, to listening to God; It is the inner place of our relationship with Him.
Transfer human consciousness
(H+) “On the other hand, we believe that the most likely non-invasive way to transfer human consciousness in the near future could be the convergence of technologies and neurotechnologies that will allow us to connect our artificial intelligence systems and organic neurons directly to the cloud.”
(AC) It seems that this process has already begun and is unstoppable. What comes next?
Personal exocortex in the cloud
(H+) “Initially, each of us will have a personal exocortex in the cloud, a kind of non-biological third brain hemisphere that will be in constant communication with the other two biological brain hemispheres.”
(AC) It seems that an integrated exocortex would allow us to perform actions through thought.
You will be cybernetic deities!
(H+) “And we recognize that we are beings oriented towards the search for transcendence. The ultimate goal should be to achieve the designed divinity, the cybernetic deity. endowed with cybernetic immortality and access to any experience of virtual, ultra-realistic and sensorial realities.”
(AC) I believe that an excess of ambition fatally leads human beings to error and their downfall.
With these thought-provoking discussions, the conversation opened up to new horizons of technological advancement and human development. It was a unique opportunity to explore the intersection of technology, consciousness, and spirituality in the quest for eternal life.
Source: Medialab Matadero
