Conclusion

If we examine our own desires and capacities in the domains of truth, love, goodness/justice, beauty, and being/home, it is difficult to deny the presence of transmaterial awareness and desire which seems to indicate a connection with a transmaterial source of that desire. This connection, in turn, reveals the transmaterial dimension of human beings.

If we wish to reduce humanity to mere materiality, to mere artificial intelligence, and to mere animalic consciousness, we will not only have to ignore Gödel’s proof for non-reductionistic human intelligence, we will also have to equate ourselves with beings that lapse into sleep without the stimulus of biological opportunities and dangers. More than this, we will have to deny the presence of all the above transcendental desires within ourselves (desires which cannot be explained through algorithmically finite – physical – structures). This seems a rather high price to pay, for it would mean condemning ourselves to ignore everything that matters – truth, love, goodness/justice, beauty, being/home – at its highest possible level. Do we really want to do this, all for the cause of defending materialism or justifying serious violations of the principle of non-maleficence? It would seem to be complete self-negation in the effort to negate the true dignity of every human being. This is probably not the best way to make the most of our lives.