Exploring the Social Imagination

Saturday, November 10, 2018

Metaman in the Social Imagination... Really?




The idea posited in a book written by a supposed deep thinking biophysicist is that man is evolving into a transhuman... a new kind of sentient being. That could be but the problem is this... an evolving man doesn't always believe he is evolving. Some believe they were created in the image of their creator. There are even some who think that man was seeded by aliens. If that is the case, why would such a man  think that they/we have evolved at all.  Just would not be in their imagination.

The other problem as we contemplate 'metaman' is that found in this question. Could a 'truly' transformed 'man integrated machine/computer' believe that they evolved from a lesser being, an organic puss puddle so to speak? Not likely. Why? Because, a truly higher form of sentient being such as metaman would never imagine or think or believe that it came from something less than what it is let alone that it was even programmed by a lesser form 'man'. 

Furthermore, we must consider that a truly transformed creature would not/does not consider the past as we do... and so often we have been pointed as being nothing more than apes or even dogs. So, does a monkey consider it was an amoeba or a dog or cow or dolphin. No, because as far as it is concerned it is in a perfect state. 

Anything in a perfect state functions according to that perception of being perfectly made. It does not doubt what it is or contemplate what it was. A 'new' man - metaman would be in a perfect state and not consider his past or maybe not even remember it; and for that matter, he may not even contemplate the future... just like an ape, or a dog or anything other than a man.

So how could we now think that we will be metaman in our future if that creature will never know us - what we were and even if what we did... why would it care/want to know how it came to be. Metaman will never have such a concern. Because, he would be self 'perfectly' made in his mind and what kind of mind could that be? We cannot even image.

Metamen is the destruction of the human being. He is the caterpillar that will become the butterfly and the butterfly will fly away never looking back... what for?If we are to become metaman... we are already dead so to speak, even never existed. We have no future as 'man' and certainly not as metaman... for as him/it, we will not believe we once walked on just two legs, grew and cooked our own food or made up our own minds and dreamed of loving someone, having sex and children, or celebrating holidays with wine and turkey. 
 
And in metaman we will have no past either as metaman will not need one or the need to believe in a past  or even care to remember it if in fact he could. After all, do we remember crawling out from the pond, do we want to go back to that? Do we remember when we became a fish or a cow or an ape? Do we want to spend time reminiscing about those transformation days.

I would go as far to say that metaman will reject any evidence he finds that he was created by or evolved from what he will surely deem a lesser creature.  Now, the evolutionist may or may not agree with this and that is if metaman is our ultimate end... he is the end. Anything that reaches a perfect state has nowhere to go. 

I think that biophysicist forgot we live in a state of entropy and he graduated Harvard. I won't name names but wow what a monkey.

2 comments :

  1. The other thing... how could a simple puddle produce a simple cell that wants to be Metaman? The only thing I might agree with is that the puddle was never simple to begin with.

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  2. You see, even metaman will have to overcome this world... this world in a state of entropy. We have an overcomer - Jesus Christ and in Him we too overcome this world.

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