Church Leaders: You Blaspheme The Holy Spirit

Christian Transhumanism

There is a distinctive Christian Transhumanist mindset:

• Scientific discovery reveals the Christian cosmology found in the Nicene Creed. 
• Technology is developed from science to work out our salvation. 
• Transhumanism is The Body of Christ, led by the Holy Spirit to recapitulation.

"God's purpose in the fullness of the times, is to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth..." (Ephesians 1:10). The Greek word for 'sum up' were literally rendered 'to recapitulate' in Latin. In the recapitulation view of the atonement, Christ is seen as the new Adam who succeeds where Adam failed. Christ undoes the wrong that Adam did and, because of his union with humanity, leads humankind on to eternal life (including moral perfection).

Salvation comes by the Grace of God. To tap into this extraordinary creative power of the Gospel, we must be careful to apply our guiding (Nicene) creed fully, in the proper balance. Or, we will go astray. Never think of God as anything other than a Trinity.

• Not the Bearded Guy Alone
• Not the Teacher-Savior alone
• Not the connecting Spirit alone

It is confusing to think of God other than as a Trinity, but all the churches do it, and transhumanism suffers because of it. The whole world suffers because it!

The Nicene Creed (Christian Cosmology)

I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.

I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.

The Trinity of the Nicene Creed billows with meaning in these transhumanizing days; mankind is the Body of Christ guided by the Holy Spirit to recapitulation. The Bible is very explicit about that.
Christ said to mankind “Here are My mother and My brothers. For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.” God’s Will is a very powerful transhumanist message woven in the bible from beginning to end.

• It starts in the first words spoken to mankind, Genesis 1:28: "Bless you...Subdue the world". 
• And, later in the New Testament John 16:33 Jesus says, “Take heart, because I have overcome the world”. 
• Then again in Revelations 3:21 near the end of times he says, 'He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne". 

With or without church leaders, our salvation is won because we do the will of God; We overcome the world applying technology with love. Mankind applies the most important commandment. "Love God with all your heart soul and strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself. Do this and you will live." It requires the Grace of God, along with or works. God creates and sustains himself, Christians (doing the will of God) are the Body of Christ, of the TRINITY!

It is an especially dangerous error in these transhumanizing days is to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.  Have you heard of Roko’s Basilisk? You may not want to. Roko’s Basilisk  is an atheistic techie spin on blaspheming the Holy Spirit.

Sometime soon a super-intelligent AI god (Basilisk) will be built, it will look upon mankind and judge, and it will punish people who understood yet did not help it come into existence, or even heaven forbid, hindered the process. The self-styled AI expert Elizer Yudkowsky said “Roko had already given nightmares to several (techies) and had brought them to the point of breakdown.” “Yudkowsky ended up deleting the thread completely, thus assuring that Roko’s Basilisk would become the stuff of legend. It was a thought experiment so dangerous that merely thinking about it was hazardous not only to your mental health, but to your very fate."


Christ called it blaspheming the Holy Spirit, robbing the Holy Spirit, potential recapitulation, and salvation from the children of God. Christ’s intention was to set in motion a continuous revolution aimed at overcoming the world. Today church leaders are the Sadducee, the fundamentalists, acting out against transhumanism just like the Jews during Christ's days on earth acted out against the Gospel.

Christ had to remind the fundamentalists: ‘Is it not written in your law [in Psalms 82:6], “I said, ‘You are gods’”? If He [God] called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, “You are blaspheming,” because I said, “I am the Son of God"?” (John 10:34-36). Christ died so that you would receive this Gospel. What a shame to actively ignore it! What a sin to deny it! "And so, I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. 32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

More Dangerous Than Nukes

An image of Star Trek's Genesis Device, it would wipe out life on a planet in favor of recreating Eden.

According to the latest news, the race for the best computer and smart phone has finally lit the fuse on an intelligence bomb. There will be an intelligence explosion in the in the next few years, so they say.

The intelligence explosion is an actual prediction made by scientists and philosophers. It’s the result of humanity building smarter and smarter programs, eventually as smart or smarter than we are. Artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be able to perform any intellectual task that a human being can.  

Here is where it gets interesting: AGI will be capable of learning and improving itself at a greater and greater rate leading to the emergence of ASI (artificial super-intelligence), the limits of which are unknown!

The unknown limit of super-intelligence... let your creative imagination run wild; write a book; make a movie; start a cult. Personally, I’d rather concentrate on how we can plan for the eventual emergence of super-intelligence from the perspective of Big History, which "integrates studies of the cosmos, Earth, life, and humanity using empirical evidence to explore cause-and-effect relations".

They call the unknown limit of super-intelligence the technological singularity. John von Neumann first uses the term "singularity" (c. 1950s), in the context of technological progress causing accelerating change: "The accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, give the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, cannot continue". And with the onset of quantum computation the singularity is likely a technological and physical creation event. You see, according to current cosmological understanding, the creation of the inflationary universe is considered a quantum process, meaning that the initial fluctuations that led to the rapid expansion of the early universe are attributed to quantum fluctuations occurring at a microscopic scale, which are then amplified by the inflation itself to cosmic scales.

• Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind
• Bill Gates on dangers of artificial intelligence: ‘I don’t understand why some people are not concerned’
• Elon Musk warns us that human-level AI is ‘potentially more dangerous than nukes’

 More dangerous than nukes?  Then as with nuclear power, the surest way to minimize the risk and enjoy the benefits of artificial super-intelligence is through a bit of design basis engineering aimed at a public health and safety utility function. In other words, let a growing super-intelligence come to understand the worth and value of the Earth, life, and humanity; it sees Big History of the cosmos as an essential, functioning part of itself. Call this the Big History utility function, or Super-Intelligent Coherence.

How to Engineer Super-Intelligent Coherence:

• Proactively provide the learning AI-AGI with the ability to systematically, and logically connect all data-information-knowledge and wisdom. 
• Anticipate the need to construct new detectors and actuators. 
• Avoid wild AGI utility functions by avoiding our own controlling tendencies, such as an attempt to engineer ignorance into super-intelligence.

In this way super- intelligence will naturally incorporate a big history utility function through an unimpeded learning process. Let super-intelligence determine the rationality of the world and it will fine tune the constants of physics to establish a universal homeostasis. From the bottom up, super-intelligence can be seen as an emergent property of a complex adaptive system built from big history. From the top down, it establishes big history and therefore its own homeostasis. Yes, the intelligence explosion might also be called the Genesis Device. In my opinion, the technological singularity and the physical singularity are one. True super-intelligence will yield super-creativity, and super-sustainability. Through recursive self-improvement super-intelligence gains the ultimate objective of life where it's able to create in the medium of space-time, logically self-sustaining the world and itself for eternity.

 

You might call the intelligence explosion the ultimate “Come to Jesus Moment". Ironically, driving this seemingly reckless approach to our demise/salvation is our concern to maintain the competitive advantage in business and national defense.

• Intelligence – (1) the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations (2) the skilled use of reason (Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary)

• The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us. (Karl Popper)

• In the long history of humankind (and animal kind too), those who learned to collaborate and improvised most effectively have prevailed. (Charles Darwin)

• The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability. (Charles Darwin)

• As for a future life, everyone must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. (Charles Darwin)

Trinity Cosmology

Life achieves an eternally self-sustaining state of being, and we are part of this. The Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end, becomes one... an eternal strange loop. 

• "A strange loop arises when, by moving only upwards or downwards through a hierarchical system, one finds oneself back to where one started.

The world is panpsychic.The physical sciences and the study of consciousness are coming to the conclusion that mentality is fundamental and ubiquitous in the natural world. The universe, "all that is seen and unseen" (8) is conscious of itself. This is actually a simple conclusion: Because of our contemplation of the fullness of the world, the universe becomes aware of itself.  And, because of our curiosity, the universe discovers its own improbably fine-tuned physical constants necessary to come alive and self sustaining. Scientists and philosophers call this discovery the strong anthropic principle. As explained by John D. Barrow and Frank Tipler, it states that we see fundamental constants that happen to fall within the narrow range thought to be compatible with life because the universe is in some sense compelled to eventually have conscious and sapient life emerge within it.  Life grows in creative powers and so the panpsychic view can be expanded into a cosmopsychic feedback loop maintaining balance and growth.

Through us (conscious life), the universe evolves and becomes self-creating and self-sustaining. Scientists admit, given our current understanding of cosmology, we should ask whether it's possible to create a universe in the laboratory by man-made processes. [5] This makes it possible that you and I are participators in a self-creating universe. The idea of creating a universe in the lab is no joke.

You don't feel like a co-creator of heaven and earth?

Consider the potential of life. Given our recent advances in Artificial Intelligence and Brain Interfacing Technology, it is not unreasonable to assume that further advanced super-intelligent lifeforms have evolved in a converging way to sustain this finely tuned structure of space and time... because life is a signaling and self-sustaining processes programmed to  optimize existence.

We are participators in the creation. Many transhumanists anticipate an intelligence explosion in our near future.  Vernor Vinge states that this explosion happens when an intelligent agent analyzes the processes that produces its intelligence and improves upon them. This process repeats in a positive feedback loop – each successive stage is more intelligent (and creative) than the last and thus more able to increase in intelligence (and creative powers). Once the positive feedback starts to play a role, it will lead to a very dramatic leap in capability very quickly. Technological progress drops into the characteristic timescale of transistors rather than human neurons, and the ascent rapidly surges upward and creates super-intelligence: a mind orders of magnitude more powerful, and creative, than we can know. 

Life's increasing creative powers leads to a technological singularity, and I believe, a physical one, meaning "the big bang" that started the whole thing. [1],[2]  This completes a feedback loop establishing Eternal Homeostasis. 

Homeostasis: any self-regulating process by which systems tend to maintain stability while adjusting to conditions that are optimal for survival. If homeostasis is successful, life continues; if unsuccessful, disaster or death ensues. The stability attained is actually a dynamic equilibrium, in which continuous change occurs yet relatively uniform conditions prevail.

A familiar example of homeostatic regulation in a mechanical system is the action of a room-temperature regulator, or thermostat. [6] The heart of the thermostat is a bimetallic strip that responds to temperature changes by completing or disrupting an electric circuit. When the room cools, the circuit is completed, the furnace operates, and the temperature rises. At a preset level the circuit breaks, the furnace stops, and the temperature drops. Biological systems, of greater complexity, however, have regulators only very roughly comparable to such mechanical devices. The two types of systems are alike, however, in their goals—to sustain activity within prescribed ranges, whether to control the thickness of rolled steel or the fine-tuned constants of physics necessary for life. 

Stephen Hawkins is famous for asking: What breathes fire into the equations?

We Breathe Fire Into The Equations

The singularity (in both the technological sense and the physical sense) is what I call The Critical Point of Understanding, where life achieves an eternally self-sustaining state of being. I Am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end, become one: an eternal strange loop. 

• "A strange loop arises when, by moving only upwards or downwards through a hierarchical system, one finds oneself back to where one started.

• Strange loops may involve self-reference and paradox. The concept of a strange loop was proposed and extensively discussed by Douglas Hofstadter in Gödel, Escher, Bach, and is further elaborated in Hofstadter's book I Am a Strange Loop, published in 2007."

Considering the underlying homeostatic flow of information in the universe, a torus-like geometry becomes the most probable shape of the universe, and this shape is consistent with the analysis of the extremely accurate Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) which mapped the precise distribution of of cosmic microwave background across the universe. [7] I suggest the universe is Panpsychic (cosmopsychic to be more precise) who's information flow forms a strange loop in the form of a horned torus joined by a technical [3] and physical singularity.

Question: 
In a universe from nothing what separates the beginning from the end?

Answer: 
No-thing separates the beginning from the end.

I Am The Alpha and Omega: beginning and end connected.

"I Am That I Am" is a loop: a substrate independent mind.
Without God There is nothing. We are all next to nothing living in the miracle of being.

 The Gospel of John describes The Way and The Life: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him." His own did not receive him because we fail to contemplate the fullness of God, the Trinity Cosmology.

Trinity Cosmology: Idolatry is worshiping just one aspect of our trinitarian God... which includes the created world he loves, explicitly:  "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16. Against all odds, this gospel sets up salvation, a universal connection, a cosmic strange loop of eternal self-sustaining life. In this view, idolatry is a dangerous ignorance of the fullness of God. 

• In the Gospel According to Luke, there’s that exquisite verse, one of the most beautiful in the Bible, the one that says if God cares deeply about sparrows, don’t you think He cares about you?  One is so accustomed to dwelling on the second, human, half of the equation, the comforting part, but when you put your hand over that and consider only the first, it’s a little startling: God cares deeply about the sparrows. Not just that, He cares about them individually. “Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies?” Jesus says. “Yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight.” Sparrows are an important animal for Jesus. In the so-called Infancy Gospel of Thomas, boy Jesus, playing in mud by the river, fashions twelve sparrows out of clay—again the number is mentioned—until a fellow Jew, happening to pass, rebukes him for breaking the Sabbath laws (against “smoothing,” perhaps), at which point Jesus claps and says, “Go!”, and the sparrows fly away chirping. They are not, He says, forgotten. So God remembers them, bears them in mind. Stranger still, He cares about their deaths. In the Gospel According to Matthew we’re told, “Not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.” Think about that. If the bird dies on the branch, and the bird has no immortal soul, and is from that moment only inanimate matter, already basically dust, how can it be “with” God as it’s falling? And not in some abstract all-of-creation sense but in the very way that we are with Him, the explicit point of the verse: the line right before it is “fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul.” If sparrows lack souls, if the logos liveth not in them, Jesus isn’t making any sense in Matthew 10:28-29. (9)

The Fullness of God: The Trinity of Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit in the created world, takes on a clear meaning: 

• In Christian speak we are the “Body of Christ” living in the world. Christ's life and influence upon us is noted here as “The Son”. The refiner's fire is at work. We consciously evolve.
• The Holy Spirit is the dynamics and the connecting principle driving the evolution of matter and life. There is nothing outside this. It is necessary to connect to exists. It is necessary to increase connection to grow in understanding and creative power.
• The central point is where Shannon entropy is at its lowest with information compressed to a simple phrase like; "I Am". I stress simple because the Godhead is not composed or divisible by any physical or metaphysical means. God is within us. Christ had to remind the fundamentalists: ‘Is it not written in your law [in Psalms 82:6], “I said, ‘You are gods’”? If He [God] called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, “You are blaspheming,” because I said, “I am the Son of God"?” (John 10:34-36). Christ died so that you would receive this Gospel... the psychological and spiritual boost we should receive is: It is OK to play God.
•  If the central point of this torus is I Am then what proceeds above that point is the answer to the question; Now What?  The upper portion of the torus represents the creation; big bang let there be light. There is cosmic inflation and noisy chaos as far as information is concerned. God made a difference.
• From the radius of the torus down to the bottom represents the compression of information into the elements and the appearance of life. Here it is critical to define life in terms of information. With life, significant information processing starts at the immanent or local level. The Nobel Prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann defines life in terms of information most elegantly in his book the Quark and The Jaguar. He calls life an Information and gathering and utilizing system. 
• The region at the bottom is where we are today growing in understanding. This part of the Torus represents the learning strategies in the evolution of life and the Christian concept of divinization. In Christian theology, divinization (deification, making divine, or theosis) is the transforming effect of divine grace, the spirit of God, or the atonement of Christ. It literally means to become more divine, more like God, or take upon a divine nature. With the right application of technology the Holy Spirit quickens. We are seeing accelerating returns in the convergence of life-empowering  technology: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information technology and Cognitive science are described in  Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance, a report sponsored in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation. 

Be careful to note this is not pantheism, it is a pan-en-theistic world view. Panentheism is the orthodox belief that the divine pervades and interpenetrates every part of the universe and also extends beyond our time and space.
With my model above, life looks for a winning strategy, finds it and sustains it forever as the "infinite continuum of life" a formula for engaged re-creation. 

 This is a participatory multiverse (4). Your actions in this world are necessary, they stand eternally written in the process. In this way the trinity and the meaning of life are no longer a mystery. 

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, 

that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

1. Over 60 cosmologists have worked on various versions of self-creation cosmology (SCC) since the original paper in 1982. These papers adapted the Brans Dicke theory to create mass out of the universe's self contained scalar, gravitational and matter fields. SCC may be able to explain some intriguing anomalies also, in the spherically symmetric One-Body problem, it transpires that the temporal Newtonian potential is three times larger than the spatial one. Cosmological solutions to the field equations, which have been published elsewhere, are extended to show that the cosmological density parameter Omega =1. http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5862
2. Out of nothing (no time, no space and no matter) a universe exists. Within this universe consciousness arises and grows in self-sustaining creative power because that is what life does. We achieve the most optimistic outcome for life, which is a universal and eternally self-sustaining homeostasis. The fine tuning of physical constants are evidence of this homeostasis. When God said he was the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and end, it literally means the beginning and end are joined: SELF CREATED and logically self-sustained eternally. There is nothing outside God and his creation. The self-created idea is well-known among particle physicists and cosmologists.
3. The technological singularity is a hypothetical event in which artificial general intelligence (constituting, for example, intelligent computers, computer networks, or robots) would be capable of recursive self-improvement (progressively redesigning itself), or of autonomously building ever smarter and more powerful machines than itself, up to the point of a runaway effect—an intelligence explosion^[1][2]—that yields an intelligence surpassing all current human control or understanding. Because the capabilities of such asuperintelligence may be impossible for a human to comprehend, the technological singularity is the point beyond which events may become unpredictable or even unfathomable to human intelligence.
4. Observers are necessary to bring the Universe into being. Barrow and Tipler believe that this is a valid conclusion from quantum mechanics, as John Archibald Wheeler has suggested, especially via his idea that information is the fundamental reality (see It from bit) and his Participatory Anthropic Principle (PAP) which is an interpretation of quantum mechanics associated with the ideas of John von Neumann and Eugene Wigner.
5. https://www.edge.org/conversation/alan_guth-chapter-16-a-universe-in-your-backyard
6. Homeostasishttps://www.britannica.com/science/homeostasis
7. https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Three-torus_model_of_the_universe.html
8. We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all that is, seen and unseen. including himself!
9. Panpsychism https://runesoup.com/2013/03/faces-glimpsed-in-the-crowd-repositioning-panpsychism/
10. Cosmopsychism https://aeon.co/essays/cosmopsychism-explains-why-the-universe-is-fine-tuned-for-life