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“However, when Steve talked about transhumanism being a blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, I think he means it in a much more literal sense than I would take it myself,” Allen said.

In between the normie cons and those very concerned about AI and transhumanism, Allen said, there are significant numbers of “traditional Christians, traditional Jews and traditional Muslims who have enormous apprehension.”

Joe Allen, a conservative writer and the author of “Dark Aeon,” a book on transhumanism and artificial intelligence, told Salon that on the fringe side of the right, you have characters like Alex Jones, the creator of InfoWars, who take the idea of the singularity “entirely too seriously” while on the “normie-con” side you have people who “don’t know about or don’t care about the technology.”

Psychonauts and seekers here have long embarked on quixotic quests to transcend our common reality, employing everything from natural medicine and meditation to man-made chemicals and high-tech “transhumanism.”

I first encountered Rothblatt, a biotech entrepreneur and lawyer who founded satellite radio company SiriusXM, at a 2013 conference on futurism and transhumanism, a field focused on enhancing humans using technology.