Virtuelle und spirituelle Wirklichkeiten / Virtual and spiritual Realities

Virtual and spiritual Realities Dear Logos Conference Community! We are, after all, a »pars pro toto« community here and are concerned with the topic of human identity and the possibility of optimizing ourselves, of developing further - in the face of virtual and spiritual realities. Yes - what kind of human being do we want to become? Where and how can we orient ourselves? What goals are at stake? It is clear that sooner or later a decision has to be made, and we have to make this decision ourselves - but this does not make things easier. This question of identity is really like one that we women know from pregnancy: You can't be a little bit pregnant! Either you are pregnant or not. But as long as we haven't decided who we want to become, we naturally have every opportunity to orient ourselves in the most diverse directions. Another question is: What kind of spiritual reality do we want to realize in our everyday life? For, to say one thing right away: Virtual and spiritual reality have one thing in common: Both are »spiritual« - powerful spiritual developmental impulses of humankind are connected with them. What I find particularly fascinating about the Metaversum, Facebook's follow-up project, is that wherever it is already running and being described, you are introduced to a virtual space with real time, where you can hold meetings, go shopping, do daily business and, of course, have an enormous amount of fun. You can design your own Avatar as you would like to be, and go with him into the encounters, into the meetings etc. and: everything is possible there - every wishful dream up to living out all your sexual fantasies, that for example, you can go to bed with Scarlett Johansson. However, what is especially praised is that this is a world without disease, without hunger and thirst, without dirt and other low points of everyday life, which we still have in the normal world, still have - we are then finally rid of all that. The exciting thing is that at the large futurology congress at the invitation of the Russian transhumanist Dmitri Izkow, it was agreed that the year 2045 would be the year in which this transformation of society would be achieved. In the chronologically structured business plan developed, we are in the middle, there are also the milestones of the present time - the year 2019, end of 2020, beginning of 2030 etc. All milestones have been reached so far. The decisive last one would be 2045, when the tipping point, the so-called singularity occurs, from where there is no turning back and a new reality is created. The concept actually originates from mathematical-mechanical cosmology; the big bang was, so to speak, the most famous singularity point. What singularity means - hence the word uniqueness, singularity - is that no one can say what the world will really look like afterwards. It can be planned up to that point so to speak, but from then on everyone is curious to see what happens. Because by then, quantum computers will be many times superior to humans, will be networked with each other in a way that is impossible for any human to understand, and will largely lead their own virtual lives. Already today the experts say that the present electronic networking - also with regard to the defense systems - is so far advanced that we must already trust this to a large extent and can no longer control it ourselves. What they do agree on, however, is that in 2045 the transhumanist development and the total digitalization of our world will have progressed so far that there will only be a few nature reserves left where the eternal strivers, who are already called »Fools«, i.e. those a bit crazy, still want to have such an analog »natural« life. Because by then they want to be so far advanced in the computer technology - billions flow into this research - that the human brain functions with all their cross-linking are transferable to a computer. Then the Avatar, which we can prepare at the present in the Metaversum and already playfully »exercise« for the time being, he will become then really »we ourselves«, whereas the old biological man can be disposed of. The decline of the earth world is anyway unstoppable. Some people also write: that is wonderful - no more poverty, no more food procurement, no more diseases, no more death - and when man actually has made this step beyond biology, that he leaves biology behind and the whole earth - so the vision - is just interspersed, filled with machines.