I'm sorry but this is pure nonsense. Of course there's a difference between transhumanism and religion. Transhumanism is based on science and facts whereas religion is based on bullshit.

There's nothing "religious" about getting chips implanted, having prosthetic limbs, controlling machines with our thoughts and synthetic neurons communicating with biological neurons. These are all factual things that currently exist. Now, given that these things currently exist, it's also completely factual that these technologies will continue to improve, just like every other technology.

Everything about transhumanism is based on scientific fact - from living in Matrix like virtual realities using brain computer interfaces (BCIs) to becoming immortal synthetic minds living in orbit around stars - they're all progressions of current technologies with no laws of physics preventing their creation.

There is really no reason a human being would wish to live forever nor we have any evidence that it is attainable.

Ignoring synthetic immortality for a moment, we do in fact have biological evidence that immortality is biologically possible - the immortal jellyfish. Also, to claim that people have no reason to want to live forever is every bit as stupid as claiming that people have no reason to want to live at all. Do you see everyone lining up to kill themselves because I don't. I most certainly want to live forever and my reasons are many, I just don't want to live forever as a decrepit senile pensioner.

All the research in the field is nothing more than overhyped claims — no different than the blind belief a religious person has towards the claims of a holy books.

This is complete and utter bullshit and makes it obvious you haven't even bothered to look into these claims. Are synthetic neurons bullshit? Are brain computer interfaces bullshit? Are age reversal experiments that have rejuvenated mice bullshit? Are prosthetic limbs bullshit?

Have you considered eating just pizza for a week? How about a month? A year? How about eating the same pizza for 50 years? How about playing the same video game until you die? Not many people are able to properly rationalize the implications of such an act. This is also the primary reason most people are naively wishing for immortality.

No it isn't, don't be so ridiculous. Why would anyone want to play the same video game until they die when they can play every an new game whenever they want. On the Internet, is there just one site that people can visit. Of course not, people make new sites every day. As a synthetic immortal, you wont just have access to to 1 virtual reality, you will have access to an infinitude of virtual realities where absolutely anything is possible because they will all have their own laws of physics which could be vastly different from our own. You wont be limited to virtual reality either. What's to stop a synthetic mind from building themselves a spaceship body to travel around the galaxy in? Distance between stars and the time it would take to travel between them? Why would those things matter to an immortal with access to an infinitude of virtual realities ?

Posts like this annoy the crap out of me because you've given no actual thought to the subject as evidenced by your pizza paragraph.