Performance improvement chimpanzee sapiens

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A new religion cannot be born in any country's cave or desert. A new religion will be born in the laboratory. Just as socialism has taken over the world by promising salvation through steam and electricity, so in the coming age new techno-religions will conquer the world by promising salvation through algorithms and genes.

Silicon Valley, the birthplace of new technology.

Here, high-tech experts are concerned with the brave new religions that have nothing to do with God but technology. These emerging religions promise to fulfill all the rewards promised by the old religions here on earth through technology, not through celestial beings after death.

These emerging technology religions can be broadly divided into two types: techno-humanism and data religions.

Data Religion claims that man has accomplished his given cosmic mission and must now hand over the torch to an entirely new class of entities.

Technological humanism agrees that Homo sapiens has completed the course of history and has nothing to do with the future, but concludes that that is precisely why technology must be used to create Homo Deus.

Technological humanism seeks to upgrade the human mind to access unknown experiences and states of consciousness. We do not know how the mind arises or what the functions of the mind are. You don't know the full spectrum of your mind, so you don't know where your mind's goals are.

The pre-global earth was a galaxy where human cultures existed in isolation, each of which would have nurtured now extinct states of mind. Different socioeconomic realities and daily lives created different states of consciousness.

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With the humanistic revolution, modern Western culture lost faith and interest in a superior state of mind, and made the everyday experiences of ordinary people sacred. Modern Western culture is the only culture that does not have a special class of people who want to experience a special state of mind.

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Now, at the beginning of the third millennium, as liberal humanism gives way to technological humanism, and as medicine's focus increasingly focuses on upgrading healthy people rather than treating patients, humanity faces a completely different kind of challenge there is.

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Modern humanity suffers from the fear of alienation, and while we have many options, we have lost the ability to really focus on our choices.

Just as humanity has lost the ability to smell, dream, and concentrate, so will eventually lose the ability to tolerate confusion, doubt, and contradiction. The system will push humanity in that direction. Because the system usually rewards you when you decide, not when you doubt. But a life made of firm decisions and quick solutions would be poorer and shallower than a life full of doubts and contradictions.

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When mind-manipulating skills, ignorance of the mind's spectrum, and the narrow-minded interests of governments, military, and corporations combine, you will certainly be in trouble.

Even if you succeed in upgrading your body and brain, you will lose your mind in the process. In fact, technological humanism will eventually downgrade humans. The system will prefer downgraded people, not because of the superhuman qualities they will have, but because they don't have the annoying nature of disrupting and slowing down the system. This is the reason why it was necessary to reduce the mental ability of animals during the agricultural revolution.

The second cognitive revolution envisioned by technologists will do the same for humanity. That means we will be able to communicate and process data more effectively than ever before, but produce human cogs that focus, dream, and do not doubt. For millions of years, humans have lived as improved chimpanzees. And in the future, it may become an oversized ant.