This supplement to the Galileo Commission Report provides a brilliant critical analysis of the quasi-utopian projections for a transhumanist future, building on the original report from the same philosophical approach that questions the validity of scientism and materialism in relation to the study of consciousness, where the key unexamined proposition is that the brain gives rise to consciousness. Here, Harald Walach argues that transhumanism is an extension of the same scientism and materialism, and that these constitute religions, or at least ideologies. Aldous Huxley reminds us that “it is impossible to live without metaphysics. The choice that is given is not between some kind of metaphysics and no metaphysic: it is always between a good metaphysic and a bad metaphysic.”

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