The Christian Transhumanist Podcast

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

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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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