Posthuman Blues

Reader mailbag...

I just received the following superstitious defeatist blather, presumably from a reader of my essay, "Will We Survive the Next 1,000 Years?" (now posted at the Center for Pyschology and Social Change site as well as my own Cydonian Imperative). Enjoy.

As an astrophysicist, the truth remains. Humans are comprised of three essential elements, any enlightened priest or rabbi will acknowledge this truism of human existence. Humans are comprised of the divine spark, the flesh and TIME. When our time runs out, we then experience the death of the flesh.

If this humanity honestly believes that they have the right to engage in interstellar space travel by utilizing faster than light speed forces, then they are simply missing the grand picture. At speeds faster than light speed, the human form will dissipate at the control panel and then no-one will be traveling anywhere. The time element comprised within human creation cannot withstand speed faster than light. The time element will be negated, and the humans aboard will simply die.

Science will not be able to outdo creation in order to recreate the human form in an in situ spiritual type of being which will be able to be comfortable and survive the effects of interstellar faster than light speed travel. And, faster than light speed is what it takes in order to engage in interstellar space travel.

Terraforming Mars will be highly difficult. The planet's magnetosphere is dead, it has turned inward. To bring the magnetosphere back to life would be one hell of a feat of astrophysical engineering. The planet needs a healthy and living magnetosphere in order to sustain and continue life as life exists on Planet Earth.

If indeed humanity were to populate another area of this solar system, another area not liken to the natural environment of Planet Earth, then humanity and it's biophysics would become naturally assimilated into the geophysics of the new said world of human colonization. The human form would undergo a biophysical assimilation, and would not entirely retain it's original human form, the human form that took millennia to achieve on Planet Earth due to natural evolution. Therefore, essential and fundamental humanity will not survive in it's original state once colonization occurs in an environment highly unconducive to the life and death cycle experienced for millennia on Planet Earth. Nature cannot be contained or stopped or totally altered. And, to retain an original human form on a planet not entirely like that of Earth will not be conducive to the perpetuation of the original human species.

If indeed contact were ever to occur with a civilization on a planet similar to that of Earth, then we had better be able to set up good negotiations with it's inhabitants. We won't have squatter's rights. It would be highly ludicrous to even fathom that this species had a right to simply drop in unexpected and set up home.

In closing, when God decides that human time is up, and every age has exhausted it's vulgar vanities, then God will simply close the page on humanity, and in a natural and biological and spiritual manner, just as God intended from the beginning.

In the meantime, the space science community can dreams it's ludicrous dreams of space colonization, but they are sadly missing the forest for the trees when it comes to the reality of the truth of human existence. Humility in the face of extinction honors the fact that we have a creator, and to humbly bow out is showing that we are not liken to God, and that we are highly dependent upon the creator for our life and for our sustenance.

Society will never change. History has taught humanity that the road to spiritual death is also the road to societal death.

Enough opinion aired.


I'll say. Like most humans, this guy delights in imagining mystical impediments to progress and clings to a laughably simplistic definition of what it is to be "human." Progressive obsolesence and mutation are concepts to be embraced and exploited, not feared or shunned as "unnatural." It's not at all surprising that religion plays a pivotal role in the writer's private cosmos.

"After the old god has been assassinated, I am ready to rule the world..."

--Nietzsche