Beyond Machine Man Quotes

“Believing in a non-existent unconscious simply reveals the not knowing about how the mind and our memory fundamentally works or who we really are.”
― Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!

“Anomalies essentially prove that the impossible is indeed possible.”
― Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!

“Machine Man faithfully believes that a conscious intelligent mind came from unconscious dumb matter, by sheer luck and for no reason or purpose.”
― Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!

“Bad beliefs lead to bad thoughts; bad thoughts lead to bad actions; bad actions lead to bad results; bad results lead to bad feelings.”
― Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!

“Knowing who we really are means to know the big picture, and to act accordingly.”
― Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!

“Why should or how could any of our thoughts be real or beliefs be true if they really were the mere product of inexplicable and mostly random movements of atoms in our brains?”
― Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!

“Despite their complete lack of knowledge and understanding about the very basics of consciousness, Machine Man still insists with a religious fervor that is cloaked in the mantle of science that consciousness can only arise out of particles that have no consciousness.”
― Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!

“The same mental health experts also say that we should “fake it until you make it.” It is one of their attempts to reprogram what does not exist, to foolishly fool a supposedly foolish unconscious or subconscious mind.”
― Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!

“If we really were only a hallucinating user illusion, a conscious mind that has nothing to say and can only observe the machinations of the subconscious mind, both supposedly being the creations of the brain, why would we want to transfer the brain's illusions anyway?”
― Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!

“Even a most detailed temporary snapshot of our brains will not magically make us alive again when it is run as a software version on a computer that operates an artificial robot body.”
― Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!

“The placebo and nocebo effect proves both optimists and pessimists right”
― Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!

“Non-reductive physicalism is the very widespread philosophical view that mind and consciousness cannot be reduced to matter but are still caused by matter; essentially it is Machine Man believing in magic without admitting it.”
― Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!

“Ultimately, transhumanism is just an empty promise by people who are mortally afraid of dying.”
― Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!

“Some people pray to a probable superior intelligence, others to the entirely fictitious unconscious.”
― Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!

“Limiting our minds makes the possible impossible.”
― Arne Klingenberg, Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!