Do you think humans will 1 day shed their bodies & become superbeings of conscious formless energy?

Question

Star Trek and Stargate series are modern mythologies.

In Stargate SG1 the writers theorize that there is or will be a race called the Ancients who ascend to another plane of existence upon enlightenment and in Star-Trek TNG there was a race of godlike beings all named "Q" who perversely enjoyed toying with humanity and other life forms like the gods of Ancient Greek Mythology did with greek heroes. They shed their physical bodies which were made obsolete by evolution.

I didn't formulate this Q looking for pointless A's that are posted by gamers.

An added comment tangential to the Q's focus on transformation of humans:

Greek Mythology and many other ancient mythologies were indiputably the religions of their day: like the religions of today, perhaps. Those mythologies were rooted in the human Imagination as perhaps the religions of today are. We consider the old mythologies as fiction as, perhaps, we should consider the religions of today.

Anyway, lets go back to the Q-asked. This is not the R&S category.

"a deceiving lie." What's that? Is the opposite, the oxymoron (this word is a real word-and not an insult) "a truthful lie?"

Timaeus, did you forget Leibniz' Monads and the Matrix?

Answer 1

Its a philosophical and religious question that men have been asking for aeons.

This is simply the science fiction version of Plato's transmigration of the souls -- where man evolves (through reincarnation) to obtain a philosophical state of perfection and is transformed into a pure Elysian spirit.

However, there is no science, behind the science fiction version. Its a philosophical idea. You really have to believe that the soul is not inseperable from the body i.e. that we are more than the sparking of neurons in the brain.

Answer 2

Yes, and Christians call it the rapture of the church of God.

You refer to mythology as if it is fiction or not real, but genetic manipulation is creating Animal-Human Chimeras as we talk on this forum.

The time line of the world is coming full circle and we are going back to the beginning with the Nephilim and the ancient Greek animal-human chimeras that the Lord speaks about in Leviticus 18:23 and tells man not to do what man is doing today. Genetic manipulation and the marrying and giving in marriage of fallen angels and women got the world destroyed by a Flood of water from God. The fallen angels have modern man doing the same thing and God will destroy the earth this second time with fire. God will not let these monstrosities live on His earth.

Evolution has nothing to do with anything. It is a deceiving lie.
Read the Bible and learn.

Answer 3

Would such an immaterial existence be akin to that of what classical metaphysics has understood as a soul? Aristotle postulated that the soul might not survive without its body, while Plato believed that an immaterial existence was possible, and closer to the realization of the transcendental form of the human person. Plotinus believed in something quite close to the scenario that you describe. Much of science fiction, seem to me, to be the modern form of the Gnostic myths that were dependent on the neo-platonic philosophy of Plotinus and the strange dualistic conceptions of the universe promoted by Manicheism.

Answer 4

LOL did ya ever see that movie "The Lawnmower Man". About a simpleton who made a humble living mowing lawns, but who became the subject of a brilliant scientist's experiment that caused his brain to begin developing, and his knowledge expanding to the point where he over the course of the movie was transformed into a super-intelligence that transcended human form. Unfortunately he turned rather wicked with it, and it took some considerable effort to finally zap him. That had to happen because the moviemaker I guess wanted the "good guys" to win.

But I have always enjoyed excursions in imagination to a place and time in the evoluation of humans to the point where the physical body was indeed rendered obsolete. A time when we either continue to be individual disembodied powerful intelligences, or perhaps merge into one enormous "Force" of ultimate knowledge, ultimate wisdom, ultimate power, ultimate presence, totally omnipotent. We already have a word for such a force, of course. We call it "God".

Answer 5

All humans shed their bodies and become "formless energy" or to put it another way. You die and your soul moves on. The flesh never really mattered. It would be kind of pointless to be a superbeing made of energy in this world, assuming that you have no need to consume anything. You would have all that time and no real purpose. Eventually you'd be manipulating the fleshbound for an amusement using them as pawns in some grotesque game. I prefer things workin the way they do now, without "superbeings" running around trying to "help" others.

Answer 6

Yes, that is what I believe happens when one dies. If you take a look at what goes on in the universe, nothing is wasted. Everything is recycled so why would not our energy also be recycled. I don't think "super beings" is a proper word to describe it. I just think it is an ordinary happening. There is something about the continuation of life after death in every culture. I believe there is something valid in the universal consciousness.

Answer 7

Absolutely. Civilizations are rated as types. Currently we are type 0.7. I believe that Type 1 utilizes and harvests all energy on the planet and in I think it must do so in harmony with nature. Type 2 does so with the starts and type 3 with the universe. Once we evolve, and in trillions of years when the universe dies out in the big freeze, we must be able to transfer our energies into information (consciousness) and escape this universe in order to survive.

Answer 8

To use a famous quote from Star Trek's MR. Spock "There are Always possibilities"

Answer 9

You're living in a world of make-believe. Star trek has many idiots looking for "aliens" from outer space behind every rock and tree .
Join the world of reality - - - forget make-believe .

Answer 10

nope--unless your religous:p I think most people probably refer to that as the popular theory of the "after life" Heaven and hell. A means of shedding off our bodies and becoming some formless energy(spirits/souls).