Are You Ready For Brain Controlled Drones? - from TRUNEWS

(TRUNEWS) Are you ready for a world with brain-controlled drones?  It’s not in the future, but now.  Recently the University of Florida held the world’s first brain-controlled drone competition.  Competitors were fitted with black headsets equipped with sensors that can read brain activity.  those signals were then translated into commands to make the drone fly.

Scientists are already using mind-controlled technology to help those who are paralyzed move limbs.  For many, using brain activity to control the devices is a natural next step.  However, a growing number of people around the world, especially Christians, are concerned about the further integration of man and machine, or transhumanism.

DRONES MAY POSE A DANGER

In the wake of a British Airways passenger aircraft hit by what most likely was a drone as it prepared to land at Britain’s Heathrow Airport, there is increasing concern about the risks posed by the rise in civil drone use.

The possibilities of drones and their use are great, but but some are wary of how binding regulations of flying unmanned aerial vehicles are although rules have been tightened the world over in response to safety concerns.

“I guess it would be really hard. You could try to implement some kind of restricted zone and then every drone would have to avoid itself in that zone but then people would just work around that system and hack their own drone so it would be really hard to technologically to prevent the drones from flying over a certain area,” said Artur Goncalves, 23-year-old researcher from Portugal now studying at National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo.

Others worry that governments may over simplify the issues and restrict drones too much.

“Obviously this a technology that can and has the potential to be dangerous so you have to set some kind of rules about how people can use and where people can use it. At the same time we don’t want to restrict people’s ability to, first of all, to innovate and second of all just to exercise their basic rights to do what they own with their own property. I think when we talk about these issues of regulation, things tend to get compressed, simplified view where we talk about is, is there too much or not enough regulation,” said Canadian Andre Holliday, also a researcher at the National Institute of Informatics.

“Drones are threat to airports, threats to personal safety, security and its very tough question so I cannot give any answer. How is government doing because it’s really not an easy thing, ” added Valentino Kobayashi, organiser of Drone Meetup Tokyo.

In Japan, regulations have been tightened to ban drone flights in crowded residential areas, which include entire areas of Tokyo and other major cities, following an accident, where a drone was dropped on a roof of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s office building last year.

DRONES AND TRANSHUMANISM

Transhumanism is a philosophical and cultural position that encourages human advancement through technology. More specifically, transhumanism encourages the use of artificial enhancements to push mankind towards something “more than” human. Fundamentally, it is a form of Utopianism, the belief that human beings can change themselves and create a heaven on earth. The basic idea of improving the human condition is perfectly compatible with the Bible. In fact, it’s one of the purposes of a Christian lifestyle (John 10:10). But transhumanism contradicts the Bible when it assumes that humanity is completely sovereign and capable of self-directed change without the need for God (Jeremiah 17:9).

Like any other cultural movement, there are subsets and sub-genres of thought under the transhumanist tent. There are some admirable motivations behind transhumanism. For some, the intent is to reduce suffering or improve quality of life (Luke 12:33). Taken to an extreme, though, it can become a pursuit of immortality, an escape from moral boundaries, or a form of religion in and of itself. The ultimate redemption of mankind is something that will be accomplished by God alone (Revelation 21:1), not by technology.

Since God gave mankind dominion over the earth, there are spiritually acceptable means of improving the human condition through technology. That doesn’t mean that humans are fully capable, or even fully free, to change ourselves in any way we choose. Ultimately, God is sovereign over us; we are not sovereign over ourselves. Once a person takes the view that they can re-create themselves, they place themselves in an unrealistic spiritual position and usurp the prerogatives of God. Our knowledge, power and ability simply cannot compare to that of the Creator (Job 38:2-5).

Modern man has technology unimaginable to generations of a thousand years ago, but we’re still human, still flawed, and still in need of a Savior (1 John 1:8). Experience has taught us that human beings tend to be just as immoral with technology as without it. Aldous Huxley noted that “what science has actually done is to introduce us to improved means in order to obtain hitherto unimproved or rather deteriorated ends.” In other words, science doesn’t make humanity less sinful, or more moral; it just makes our sin more sophisticated. Human experience demonstrates that the utopian side of transhumanism is just as fictional as its spiritual side.

Additional content on Transhumanism provided courtesy of GotQuestions.org

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