2023
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Philippe Gagnon, « “Transhumanism as a glimpse in the beyond: A case for its ventriloquy and narrative substitution” », HAL-SHS : histoire, philosophie et sociologie des sciences et des techniques, ID : 10670/1.3e31bz
Transhumanism first offers itself as a means to save oneself from an embodiment that is judged as being far from perfect. One needs to ask in its wake what comes of desires to escape limitations that come from the body, as they are means of an overcoming of the self. The AI project seems to be governed by norms for what the mind is, that could easily be judged inconsistent. Religious and theological traditions have looked at what the meaning of an ineliminable image of God could mean. We try to map the meaning of extending this further into God’s resemblance. We then try to map this on a relationship of image and resemblance that would not have God come into competition with the doings of man.