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The Singularity Is Near : When Humans Transcend Biology
by Ray Kurzweil
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The great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is one of the best-known and controversial advocates for the role of machines in the future of humanity. In his latest, thrilling foray into the future, he envisions an event
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Ray Kurzweil : Gaia Explorer
Wed Jan 10 18:59:36 UTC 2007
Source: The Singularity Is Near : When Humans Transcend Biology, Page: 389
Contributed by: Ryan Gendron.
Ray Kurzweil said

Evolution moves towards greater complexity, greater elegance, greater knowledge, greater intelligence, greater beauty, greater creativity, and greater levels of subtle attributes such as love. In every monotheistic tradition God is likewise described as all of these qualities, only without limitation: infinite knowledge, infinite intelligence, infinite beauty, infinite creativity, infinite love, and so on. Of course, even the accelerating growth of evolution never achieves an infinite level, but as it explodes exponentially it certainly moves rapidly in that direction. So evolution moves inexorably towards this conception of God, although never quite reaching this ideal. We can regard, therefore, the freeing of our thinking from the severe limitations of its biological form to be an essentially spiritual undertaking.

Wed Jan 03 08:10:56 UTC 2007
Source: The Singularity Is Near : When Humans Transcend Biology, Page: 196
Contributed by: Ryan Gendron.
Charles Dubois said

The most important thing is this: To be able at any moment ot sacrifice what we are for what we could become.