Immortal Life and Eternity. On the Transhumanist Project of Immortality

Scientia et Fides 7 (2):233-246 (2019)
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Abstract

Some transhumanist authors make the prophecy of immortality thanks to the transfer of the human mind to a superintelligent computer that would guarantee the survival of the person. That immortality would mean a happy life. In this article we try to show that this supposed indefinite survival is not exactly what is usually understood by immortality. In addition, we try to think about what immortality is based on the theological understanding of eternity and personal communion in which the life of God consists. The decisive questions in this dialogue with the postures of transhumanism are the meaning of the body for the human person and what happiness is.

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