By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--October 2, 2015
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“This is such a relief. I had feared that when a robot was implanted into my brain, my head would hurt. I was afraid that I wouldn't be quite in touch with my feelings, as I wouldn't be sure if they were real or just the promptings of my inner robot. “Kurzweil, though, has reassured me. Speaking recently at Singularity University, where he is a member of the faculty, he explained that my brain will develop in the same way my smartphone has. "We're going to add additional levels of abstraction," he said, "and create more-profound means of expression." “More profound than Twitter? Is that possible? “Kurzweil continued: "We're going to be more musical. We're going to be funnier. We're going to be better at expressing loving sentiment." “Because robots are renowned for their musicality, their sense of humor and their essential loving qualities. Especially in Hollywood movies. “Kurzweil insists, though, that this is the next natural phase of our existence. "Evolution creates structures and patterns that over time are more complicated, more knowledgeable, more intelligent, more creative, more capable of expressing higher sentiments like being loving," he said. "So it's moving in the direction that God has been described as having -- these qualities without limit." “Yes, we are becoming gods. "Evolution is a spiritual process and makes us more godlike," was Kurzweil's conclusion. “There's something so uplifting, yet so splendidly egocentric in suggesting that man will soon be God, thanks to artificial intelligence. The mere fact that this intelligence is artificial might be a clue as to its potential limitations.” I’m with Chris Matyszczyk when he writes” Lord, help us.”Meanwhile, just to think that before it was Obama, the UN and Pope Francis ganging up on us, it was only only Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’.
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