Ep 7: Steve Fuller, Space Arks & the Proactionary Imperative

The Christian Transhumanist Podcast

Micah Redding and Dr. Steve Fuller discuss SPACE ARKS, the meaning of faith, the risk-taking nature of science, and why the future of politics isn't about left and right.

• Dr. Steve Fuller's book The Proactionary Imperative, as well as his writings on IEET and twitter
• Space arks! (also see this article where I speculated about space Noahs)
• Icarus Interstellar - the people who want to build these arks
• Why Clive Hamilton says humans will never leave the earth
• Moving beyond left and right to Upwing and Downwing.
• The internal inconsistency of who makes up the traditional left and right
• "Pope Francis...is very interested in saving the poor, but he's not interested in putting them in space."
• Whether environmentalism might replace the Cold War as a driver of technological progress
• Elysium and Transcendence and their different visions of the future
• Why elitist goals need to be communitarian goals
• Transhumanist politics, Zoltan Istvan & the coffin bus. Also, Zoltan thinks atheists shouldn't have to stand in airport lines.
• Transhumanism in history, as the secularization of Christian ideas
• Protestantism, the Enlightenment, and the de-institutionalization of religion...which is now happening in science as well:
• The rise of the Quantified Self movement, and the existence of N=1 and DIYBio.
• The meaning of faith, and how it relates to science, history, and morphological freedom
• Providence & the scientific method
• The imposter syndrome of the human race
• Humanity as something inherently artificial
• What Christian transhumanists have to offer

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