Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
playerOccult & Esoteric · Biotech & Transhumanism
A scholar warns that some tech leaders act like they're on a religious mission to free trapped souls from the human body.
Who they are
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, an academic who studies transhumanism (the push to technologically upgrade humans) and Jewish thought.
What they do
She examines how some technologists frame their work in mystical religious terms -- as freeing sparks of the divine that are trapped inside flawed biological bodies.
How it works
She shows how the Jewish idea of Tikkun Olam (repairing the world) gets re-cast as a technological command, giving the merging of biology and computers a spiritual justification.
Why it matters
Her point is that when a mystical, almost religious sense of destiny drives technology, it can push past the normal rational limits people would otherwise apply.
The engine's record — word for word
Scholar of transhumanism and Jewish thought. Analyzes the neo-Kabbalistic interpretation of transhumanism where technologists view themselves as liberating divine informational sparks trapped in flawed biological husks. Tikkun Olam (repairing the world) recast as technological imperative. Critical lens on how mystical teleology drives the bio-digital convergence past rational constraint.
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