SAND18 US — The Challenge of Transhumanism

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Our human-ness will become more and more threatened by AI (artificial intelligence), the augmentation of biological intelligence by machine intelligence, and those who believe that the human entity is nothing more than information that can stored in a memory device. As the world is increasingly governed by AI and as humans inhabit virtual realities more than the realm of nature and interpersonal relationships, we may lose our most human attributes, becoming desensitized, depersonalized, without empathy, bereft of intimacy. The great sacred traditions basically agree that the greatest possibility of human conscious life is to upload our consciousness to an energetic body. The goal of preserving our sensory memories belies a complete misunderstanding of what the human being and individual consciousness essentially is. Society is unprepared emotionally, intellectually, economically, and spiritually for the challenge. Without an adequate articulated metaphysics we may not be able to defend our very human-ness from slipping gradually into a non- or post-human world.

Mind-Brain Consciousness Field

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Between quantum physics and neuroscience, a theory emerges of a mental field we each have, existing in another dimension and behaving in some ways like a black hole

#115 Remembering Nature’s Ways

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A SAND Community gathering on evolved morality, child development, and human flourishing in communities.

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"Refugia": places of safety where life endures

Florece Desde Adentro

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Indigenous Mayans want their sacred cenotes to have personhood status

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Why do you pretendto be a teacher?

#114 On Grief, Belonging & Intimacy

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Exploring the tender territories of grief, belonging and rest.

Remembering Elisabet Sahtouris

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It's with a heavy heart that we remember frequent SAND speaker and contributor, Elisabet Sahtouris (1936-2024)

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