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Arne Klingenberg
Arne Klingenberg Quick Facts
Main Areas: philosophy, consciousness, happiness, mental health, macroeconomics, microeconomics, innovation, problem solving, investing, mediation, conflict resolution, management consulting, crowdsourcing, Wing Chun kung fu, Nei GungBest Sellers: Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise! (2021)
Career Focus: author & advisor
Affiliation: none
Arne Klingenberg was born in Switzerland (in 1963) where he graduated with tertiary degrees in macro-and microeconomics.
He pursued a successful business career that took him more than 50 times around-the-world; starting out as assistant sales manager flying coach, he eventually got promoted to sales director traveling business, before ending up as CEO in first class. He helped to improve products while talking with factory workers and wined and dined (a.k.a. negotiating) with billionaires.
While traveling for six months a year and living in seven countries, he experienced many cultures, customs and creeds, helping him to unravel some of the mysteries of life, a primary passion since a very early age. He eventually resigned from his demanding position to focus on writing and consulting.
Arne Klingenberg is now the author of three thought to be positive, practical and profound philosophy books about happiness and a myriad of other mind and consciousness matters.
Since 1995 he advises highly accomplished leaders, helping them to solve both personal and corporate problems (in four languages).
Arne and his Japanese-born wife, Miyuki, live mostly in the tropical parts of Australia where they've designed and built a fully self-cooling eco-house. For over 40 years, Arne enjoys practicing Wing Chun kung fu (having learned directly from great grandmasters Lo Man Kam and Ip Chun), Nei Gung (an internal healing style taught to him by the abbot of a Buddhist monastery) and a powerful meditation technique he learned from a gifted spiritual healer (the latter two he shared in his first book in 1999).
His latest book - Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise! - delves deeply into topics like philosophy, consciousness, neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, transhumanism, posthumanism, mind, memory, spirituality, pharmaceuticals, health, unconscious mind, identity, ego, society, technocracy, AI, robotics, quantumphysics, evolution, life, biochemistry, DNA, CRISPR-Cas9 geneediting, astrophysics, simulationtheory, machineman, homodigitalis, homocredo, homomysticum.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Arne Klingenberg
The placebo and nocebo effect proves both optimists and pessimists right.
(Beyond Machine Man, 2021)
Every cause produces a corresponding effect, so an intelligent effect is likely caused by an intelligent cause.
It is statistically impossible that every of billions of intelligent effects is caused by dumb luck.
Even if half of all intelligent effects were caused by dumb luck, who or what is the intelligence behind the other half?
(Beyond Machine Man, 2021)
Anomalies essentially prove that the impossible is indeed possible.
(Beyond Machine Man, 2021)
The continually proclaimed and therefore very widely believed story about a chemical imbalance in the brain that needs to be corrected is pure fiction; there is no scientific basis or factual evidence at all. Actually, the very opposite is true: these drugs are causing an imbalance of neurotransmitters in the brain. (Beyond Machine Man, 2021)
Despite their complete lack of knowledge and understanding about the very basics of consciousness, Machine Man still insists with a religious fervor that is cloaked in the mantle of science that consciousness can only arise out of particles that have no consciousness. (Beyond Machine Man, 2021)
Some people pray to a probable superior intelligence, others to the entirely fictitious unconscious.
(Beyond Machine Man, 2021)
Selective memories are also a matter of choice, whether we are honest enough to admit it to ourselves, or not. (Beyond Machine Man, 2021)
Believing in a non-existent unconscious simply reveals the not knowing about how the mind and our memory fundamentally works or who we really are. (Beyond Machine Man, 2021)
But of course, it is perfectly fine with me if Machine Man scientists want to consider themselves to be just slow and hallucinating user illusions, as long as they only speak for themselves.(Beyond Machine Man by Arne Klingenberg, 2021)If we really were only a hallucinating user illusion, a conscious mind that has nothing to say and can only observe the machinations of the subconscious mind, both supposedly being the creations of the brain, why would we want to transfer the brain's illusions anyway? (Beyond Machine Man, 2021)
From bit to it (information to matter) however is only partially true. (Beyond Machine Man, 2021)
So the idea that we really have to merge with machines in order to keep up with AI, another splendid idea of Elon Musk, is simply nonsense. Or fearmongering. Most likely it is all about self promotion. Nowadays it's called 'shockvertising' (shock advertising). It sells well. (Beyond Machine Man, 2021)
Computers will never become conscious as consciousness is not made by matter or bits and bytes.
(Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!)
For more Beyond Machine Man quotes, see the author's Substack page.
Don’t expect to receive approval, respect or love from those who don’t yet know themselves!
(117/365 And The Happy Rabbit Says, 2005)
Mentally spell and focus on: LOVE while inhaling, PEACE while exhaling! (3 x 3 min.)
(7/365 And The Happy Rabbit Says, 2005)
The most neglected duty is the duty to be happy – do yours even if others don’t! :-)
(2/365 And The Happy Rabbit Says, 2005)
If you can not laugh about yourself, somebody else will... (Yes I Am Happy Now!, 1999, p.36.)
Our mind works a bit like a search program in a computer. (Yes I Am Happy Now!, 1999)
When we are strong and happy, vibrating at high energy levels, our immune system works properly and all is fine.
(Yes I Am Happy Now!, 1999)
Love, say what you want, do what you can, hope for the best, and surrender the rest. (Merry Christians, 2016)
Getting Started With Arne Klingenberg
To read quotes from Arne's latest book, see this Substack page.
Arne’s feature article on GrahamHancock.com
Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise!
Who are we? Are we our DNA or is it all in the brain? Are we our conscious minds, an unconscious one or both? What is the real nature of consciousness or the root cause of racism? Do we have free will? Are we our emotions and do egos actually exist? What does neuroscience really say about us? Are we mere actors in a giant computer simulation? Will we ever upload our minds or memories? And will transhumanism eventually cure all disease and solve the problem of our mortality?
Beyond Machine Man is an exhilarating exploration of ourselves, a witty analysis of state of the art science, a detailed discussion of the inherent flaws in Machine Man philosophy, a deep look into the promises of transhumanism, and ultimately, the possibility of living a happier life beyond fear. It all starts with the amazing tale of Paul Schmitz, a most unfortunate racist...
