Cybernetics and Spiritualists

[CiderMuffin]

So we're getting the ability to turn our species into immortal cyborgs/synths and this is a cool idea but one idea is a possible philosophical revolution that spiritualists believe that taking out the body may be the key to enlightenment.

Though to be fair I find it kinda limiting that there isn't a way to be a religion founded around technology, kinda like the Cult Mechanicus from 40K

 

[TheBeautifulVoid2]

I'd argue that the Cult Mechanicus are not actually scientists in any meaningful way. They can reproduce some systems by rote, and they understand how to keep things running, but experimentation is beyond them. Their way of finding new stuff is to go and dig up somewhere where someone else has already done it.

In a Stellaris sense of the term, I'd argue that the Cult Mechanicus are simply Spiritual. They have the trappings of Materialistic but don't embrace any of its deeper implications (no AI, no mass consciousness-uploading, etc.)

Then again, my knowledge of 40k may be somewhat dated. If Mark Ward has rewritten Tech Priests to *rolls dice* ride dinosaurs and use genengineered pineapples as explosives, then I must concede a lack of knowledge of it.

 

[Ezumiyr]

Well it's true that the Spiritualists in Stellaris don't really have proper religions or even beliefs. They should probably be able to manage their own religions and religious orders (including techno-religious orders - also, why not sacred AIs that behave like gods? It's a common trope in scifi) just like megacorps should be able to manage subcorps. As a player, it would be cool to be able to manage your empire that way. Let's give that planet to my crazy scientists, or that tiny moon to my ascetic order of monk-warriors.