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The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
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Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
As intelligence saturates the matter and energy available to it, it turns dumb matter into smart matter. Perhaps what I should say is that intelligence is more powerful than cosmology. That is, once matter evolves into smart matter (matter fully saturated with intelligence), it can manipulate matter and energy to do whatever it wants. This perspect... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Why Intelligence is More Powerful than Physics
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
The law of accelerating returns implies that by 2099, the intelligence that will have emerged from human-machine civilization will be trillions of trillions of times more powerful than it is today, dominated of course by its nonbiological form. The point is that if there are ways around this limit (or any other currently understood limit), then the... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Why SETI Will Fail (and why we are alone in the Universe)
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
But I regard the freeing of the human mind from its severe physical limitations of scope and duration as the necessary next step in evolution. In making this statement, it is important to emphasize that terms like evolution, destiny, and spiritual quest are observations about the end result, not the basis for these predictions. The primary force dr... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
The Next Step in Evolution and the Purpose of Life
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Once brain porting technology has been refined and fully developed, will this enable us to live forever? The answer depends on what we mean by living and dying. However, if we are diligent in maintaining our mind file, keeping current backups, and porting to current formats and mediums, then a form of immortality can be attained, at least for softw... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Technology has always been a double edged sword, bringing us longer and healthier life spans, freedom from physical and mental drudgery, and many new creative possibilities on the one hand, while introducing new and salient dangers on the other. However, the means and knowledge will soon exist in a routine college bioengineering lab (and already ex... See more