The goal of mankind, happiness, divinity.

 The goal of mankind, happiness, divinity.



Numerous thinkers, prophets, and ordinary people throughout history have defined happiness, not life itself, as the supreme good.


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Whereas for Epicurus the pursuit of happiness depended on individual efforts, modern thinkers regard it as a collective task.


Jeremy Bentham declared 'the greatest happiness for the greatest number' as the supreme good, and came to the conclusion that the only worthy goal for the nation, the market and the scientific community to pursue is to promote the happiness of all people in the world.


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The government, corporations, and laboratories focused on a clear goal in front of them, but the goal of these systems was not to secure personal happiness but to develop national power.


Schools nurtured well-spoken citizens, and the health system achieved the purpose of strengthening the national power, not the happiness of the people.


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One of the great goals of mankind in the 21st century, the pursuit of happiness, this task seems relatively easy.


The disappearance of hunger, pestilence and war, the unprecedented peace and prosperity of mankind, and the rapid increase in life expectancy are all factors that make humans happy. But when Epicurus defines happiness as the supreme good, he warns his disciples that being happy is hard work.


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Material achievement alone does not last long.


Overcoming yesterday's tragedy doesn't make you happier today. Being a little happier can be much more difficult than getting rid of the pain.


Despite mankind's unprecedented achievements, it seems that happiness is unable to rise beyond that by hitting an unknown glass ceiling.


Psychological and biological happiness is due to evolution, and our biochemical mechanisms have been adapted to increase our chances of survival and reproduction over countless generations, not for happiness.


Evolution sometimes entices us with invigorating sensations like happiness and peace, and sometimes with ecstatic sensations like exaltation and excitement. These sensations require a new room every day.


Expectations rise according to the conditions of daily happiness, and yesterday's challenges become today's daily life in an instant. Perhaps the key to happiness is the golden combination of excitement and peace.


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As the pursuit of biochemical happiness accelerates, the face of politics, society, and the economy will also change, and the more we do so, the more difficult it will be to control the pursuit of biochemical happiness.


Should we seek happiness by manipulating biochemical mechanisms?


A happy or excited sensation will never be satisfied no matter how many experiences you experience.


If you regard fleeting pleasures as happiness and crave more and more pleasures, there is no other way than to pursue them non-stop. Even if you finally feel pleasure, that sensation disappears in an instant, and you cannot be satisfied with just recalling the pleasures of the past, so you have to start over. Even if you go on like this for decades, your satisfaction will not last. The more you crave pleasure, the more stress and dissatisfaction you will feel.


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The pursuit of happiness and immortality means that humans will upgrade their performance to become a god. Not because happiness and immortality are divine attributes, but because humans must first be able to control their biological temperament like a god to overcome ageing and tragedy.


There are three ways to upgrade a human to a god. Biotechnology, cyborg engineering, and inorganic synthesis.


Biotechnology begins with the insight that humans have not yet reached their full potential as organisms. Biotechnology will create new gods, and the superhumans thus born will be different from today's sapiens to the extent that we are different from Homo erectus.


Cyborg engineering will fuse organisms with inorganic devices.


A more drastic approach is to design a completely inorganic entity with no organic parts at all. You will be able to freely move around the virtual and non-virtual worlds beyond the biochemical limits. To replace an organism with an inorganic one. This may be the sowing of the seeds that will give birth to a future galactic empire ruled by androids.


We do not know where this road will lead us or what our descendants who have become like gods will look like.


Technology can change human minds and desires, so we who have the present minds and desires cannot guess the implications of that change. Thousands of years of history have been full of technological, economic, social and political upheaval. But there was only one constant, and that is humanity itself.


When new technologies can re-engineer the human mind, Homo sapiens will disappear.


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Reasons to think thinking about the new agenda of humanity,


Because we have a choice of uses for new technology, we need to understand what is happening and make up our own minds before it can make up our minds.

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