http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-tur...the-future
EXCERPT: [...] It’s one of the newest in a multitude of quasi-religious movements, all vying for a place in the rapidly changing futurist landscape. Prisco is carving out a digital space for what he hopes will store the building blocks for the construction of humanity’s direction. According to the official website, the idea is that by releasing and curating metaphysical and scientific “programming code” to the public, people have a better chance of successfully augmenting our path as a species in hopes of eventually achieving in the physical world what most religions only promise in the afterlife: the defeat of death.
The Turing Church aims to attract like-minded support from researchers, programmers, and philosophers hoping to direct transhumanist progress within the framework of a broad “theology” of sorts. It’s a position best summed up by the group’s three core pillars:
(1) "We will go to the stars and find Gods, build Gods, become Gods, and resurrect the dead from the past with advanced science, space-time engineering and ‘time magic.’"
(2) "God is emerging from the community of advanced forms of life and civilizations in the universe, and able to influence space-time events anywhere, anytime, including here and now."
(3) "God elevates love and compassion to the status of fundamental forces, key drivers for the evolution of the universe...."
EXCERPT: [...] It’s one of the newest in a multitude of quasi-religious movements, all vying for a place in the rapidly changing futurist landscape. Prisco is carving out a digital space for what he hopes will store the building blocks for the construction of humanity’s direction. According to the official website, the idea is that by releasing and curating metaphysical and scientific “programming code” to the public, people have a better chance of successfully augmenting our path as a species in hopes of eventually achieving in the physical world what most religions only promise in the afterlife: the defeat of death.
The Turing Church aims to attract like-minded support from researchers, programmers, and philosophers hoping to direct transhumanist progress within the framework of a broad “theology” of sorts. It’s a position best summed up by the group’s three core pillars:
(1) "We will go to the stars and find Gods, build Gods, become Gods, and resurrect the dead from the past with advanced science, space-time engineering and ‘time magic.’"
(2) "God is emerging from the community of advanced forms of life and civilizations in the universe, and able to influence space-time events anywhere, anytime, including here and now."
(3) "God elevates love and compassion to the status of fundamental forces, key drivers for the evolution of the universe...."