Any book on transhumanism?
Recently my beliefs (both philosophical and political) evolved into something that seems to align with the transhumanist thought. I didn't know anything about transhumanism before, so I somewhat came up with it by myself. That's why I would like to get a somewhat clearer picture on what I could do in life to achieve this. Currently I'm an undergrad in mathematics.
Here's my belief system in brief:
1. Freedom is the most important of all values
2. Liberty is restrained by numerous things, but mostly by restrictions of the human body
3. Randomness doesn't exist, free will doesn't exist, everything is determined by existing factors
4. Only way to become free within the restraints of the universe is to get rid of the highest possible number of factors that restrict your freedom
5. In the end, humans would abandon their bodies, and be integrated into highly sophisticated systems. This should reduce them to something akin to Artificial Intelligence which would choose based on its computations of different variables. Since such a transcended human is self-learning, it will be approximately free, as it is unable to determine the value of the variables before computing them.
Note please that this is a summary.
This seems extremely appealing to me, so I'm wondering what area of mathematics should I specialize in if I wish to help to achieve this future?
Recently my beliefs (both philosophical and political) evolved into something that seems to align with the transhumanist thought. I didn't know anything about transhumanism before, so I somewhat came up with it by myself. That's why I would like to get a somewhat clearer picture on what I could do in life to achieve this. Currently I'm an undergrad in mathematics.
Here's my belief system in brief:
1. Freedom is the most important of all values
2. Liberty is restrained by numerous things, but mostly by restrictions of the human body
3. Randomness doesn't exist, free will doesn't exist, everything is determined by existing factors
4. Only way to become free within the restraints of the universe is to get rid of the highest possible number of factors that restrict your freedom
5. In the end, humans would abandon their bodies, and be integrated into highly sophisticated systems. This should reduce them to something akin to Artificial Intelligence which would choose based on its computations of different variables. Since such a transcended human is self-learning, it will be approximately free, as it is unable to determine the value of the variables before computing them.
Note please that this is a summary.
This seems extremely appealing to me, so I'm wondering what area of mathematics should I specialize in if I wish to help to achieve this future?
