He began work with the ecology movement in and continues to write and lecture on the dangers to our biosphere. Puhalo was a speaker at the Global Future International Congress events in and Lazar Puhalo: That is what we discuss at futurist conferences.
A lot of the technology has been and is being developed in secret. I think in 30 years, we will have got used to almost continuous surveillance, even on public thoroughfares, and that to me is really one of the most ominous aspects of the element of technology. We will accept it because of fear, and fear is the strongest conditioner. In many cases, technology is developing in relationship to a war on terrorism, both real and imagined, and the fear of terrorism conditions us to accept the surveillance of people in all circumstances.
I think probably we will have a lot less personal freedom and there will be technologies that will help to distract us from having these personal freedoms. KM: We are being distracted by the frequency of instant messages and losing our ability to look up and outside and to see the bigger picture of what all this distraction means. Can you tell me what you think about new innovations like body wearable devices? LP: You know cameras are so miniscule now. We have things such as small ballpoint pens that can actually record videos.
Our freedoms and our privacy are being impinged upon by other individuals, not only by government officials and police, and people you do not recognize. What we will have to get used to is the loss of privacy and the loss of private space.
In a way this helps to cripple us because privacy itself and private space are something that are so valuable to us and integral to our emotional well-being. So far we can think and have freedom in the mind, but technology is impacting that as well.
New technologies can actually read brain-waves and decipher what is going on in the mind in a general sense. I think that they develop that technology, initially for good purposes, and then we will see mind reading technologies of one degree or another.
We can also operate some of the prosthetic devices using brain waves. So these technologies can be very useful but also very invasive. They can be so beneficial and yet they can be so destructive at the same time.
All technologies are that way and I worry that these technologies are proceeding along ways that ethics is of no consideration in the creation of them and how they are used. Ethics is one of the first casualties on this side of the road. LP: Oh yes, because people make a profit by overstating things. Most of the pop-ups on your computer, and most of the ads on television are always overstated and that is what makes them sell and of course that is what makes us vote for certain politicians as well.
So everything has to be hype and overstated in a society where that is the norm, and it is really the norm. In the case of transhumanism, of course it is going to be hyped and overstated.
Transhumanism suggests an engineered spiritual evolution as much as anything else, and it is very gnostic. Transhumanism presumes that the soul and the body are totally separate entities so that the soul can function outside the body and be downloaded into an avatar and also that it can be evolved to be totally independent of the human body. Of course, transhumanism is a religion.
Any movement that aims at affecting the afterlife or the next life, or talks about immortality, must be classed as a religion per se , because just the idea of attaining immortality by some means makes it a religious movement. KM: What do you think the consequences of such a belief are? What will be some of the short-term consequences? LP: Well, consequences would be some very foul experiments involving humans. You know we have these things taking place in secret anyway. It is like in the s when various people were being sterilized under the influence of the eugenics movement.
This did not take place only in Nazi Germany, but in America and in other Western democracies. People are willing to carry out very harmful, concrete experiments on other human beings to achieve the imagined ends of some ideology.
I do think that transhumanism downgrades human beings. I think that some of the people that get involved in transhumanism are in the highest levels in industry or associations, and that their reasons for it have to do with power.
At that level many of the people are sociopaths anyway. Lev Puhalo must not be permitted to lecture in our parishes, and his publications should not be disseminated among us. Please consider supporting OrthodoxWiki. From OrthodoxWiki. Jump to: navigation , search. Categories : Bishops 20thst-century bishops.
Navigation menu Personal tools Log in Request account. Ignorance is no substitute for faith, and faith which is so arrogant that it thinks it has answers to which the best science is counter—science which has the humility to state clearly that it will not have all the answers or complete answers yet.
The ignorant and arrogant egotists [in the Church] who claim that they do have all and absolute answers about something for which science does not have all the answers yet should simply be ignored out of hand, as they do not have the integrity or humanity to be taken seriously. If I did write [an article] about this, it would be a castigation of the ignorant and egotistical people who think that science is the one that is deficient while they are all-knowing.
Neither ignorance nor arrogance is a substitute for faith. Nor, in fact, are fear and hate a substitute for faith and love. Occasionally we post links to other sources that are relevant to our articles. This is how transgender identity is addressed by the medical profession. Any Orthodox theological and pastoral response must be based on the best science available to us. Archbishop Lazar has graciously consented to our publishing his response to the group.
0コメント