A Spiritual Case for Transhumanism?

Abstract

Under both Western and Eastern worldviews, a key justification for anyone spending a lifetime on Earth must be the spiritual growth they are able to achieve while here, through exposure to manifold life situations and experiences. Yet, for a variety of reasons, some people may already be at a point of diminishing returns, whereby their achievable progress on Earth would be too inconsequential to justify their presence here. This paper looks at whether the advent of transhumanism and other life-expanding technologies could push back the limits beyond which a lifetime on Earth would be, for some, spiritually needless.