Death is increasingly on the agenda for baby boomers moving ever
closer to it. Timothy Leary brings some startlingly fresh ideas to
this topic. Fundamentally, he claims, we have been brainwashed by
our institutions -- government, organized religion, the healthcare
industry -- to accept death as an inevitable end. Leary argues
instead that death is misunderstood, that we don't "have" to die,
and that there are "commonsense alternatives." His theory rests on
the transhumanist approach that says human beings are evolving into
spiritual machines -- beings that are part human and part machine
and eventually will not die as the term is commonly understood.
Being fitted with machine parts like bionic knees is part of this
process. And as we evolve through the cybernetic age, he says, we
will gain new wisdom that broadens our definition of personal
immortality and gene-pool survival -- the "postbiologic option of
the information species."
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