The Human Being - between Deification by Grace and Biotechnology Augmentation
The Human Being - between Deification by Grace and Biotechnology Augmentation

Summary/Abstract: In the last twenty years, digital technology has developed in an explosive manner and continues to do the same today, at a speed previously hard to imagine. Moore’s Law states that electronic devices double in power and halve in size every 18 months, and even that time frame is decreasing. Today’s average smartphone contains 120 million times more technology than the Apollo 17 space shuttle that is said to have landed on the moon. An equally rapid development, but, as its producers themselves warn, unpredictable, seems to have artificial intelligence, which is still not regulated ethically or morally. Recent research and results in the field of biotechnology prophesy and promise man physical and cognitive augmentation and warns him that, in the absence of bioimprovement of his condition, he could become, in just a few years, “irrelevant”, a kind of “pariah”, compared to augmented organisms. Against these predictions and promises, Orthodox theology offers a vision of man who - despite the “wounds of sins”, at the origin of which lies ancestral sin - can, with God’s help and through personal effort, achieve immortality, understood as salvation, perfection or deification by grace and work.

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