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Who in their right mind would want to “live forever” when you’d have to put up with these bull**** presidential campaigns every two years?
I am looking forward to living forever with Christ.
Not impressed with living ‘forever’ in the current world or the future world the way things are going.
The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.” - as recorded in Genesis 11.
A blind and arrogant Marxist atheist who does not understand man’s sinful nature and its inevitable effect on his life.....no man is going to reverse God’s judgment on Adam and his kin - until the resurrection and Kingdom come.......
Come, Lord Jesus......
As long as no people are harvested for parts. If they can beat hunger and death by natural causes we might actually get off this rock. Unless virtual reality becomes the new opiate and everyone drops out of reality.
Freegards
I think one should consider the conundrum, brought to my attention by Douglas Hofstadter in THE MIND’S I, of reduplicated consciousness.
He cited the Star Trek transporter scenario, which we all seemed to accept as making sense, as presented. He noted that the mode of operation was essentially reduplication, since your entire body was decorporialized, or whatever, and then recorporialized elsewhere.
This process suggested to him that a malfunction might occur, wherein the transport process would seem to succeed, but the original body might remain intact. In this case, he suggests, that the ship’s computer might announce to the straggler, “This isn’t you, you have been transported. Stand by for discorporation.” I think this is enough to present the Star Trek transporter process as a paradox.
But considering that, what of our own sense of continuity? I can attest that as a youth of 10 or so, I wondered about my future self, and have in fact lived past the point of anything I ever contemplated. So what am I?
Kurzweil has been peddling the same crap for about two decades now. When preacher sets a date for the end of the world that doesn’t happen, their next prediction rightly gets ridiculed. When a ‘futurist’ does it, they write another book and cash another royalty check.
Technology has and will change the world in major ways. But immortality and uploading our consciousness into robots is science fiction.
“’Thus gods are made and whoso makes them otherwise shall die’ And all the city praised him ... Then he died.”
-Rudyard Kipling
I hope this tech doesn’t happen till well after Soros is dead.
Futurist Robert Anton Wilson was very interested in this topic. He wrote pretty frequently about how we were just on the edge of cracking this problem, and that people would be living to 200 and beyond any day now.
He died in 2007.
"During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them. "
We already live forever.
Just not here.
Coming up:
5000 year mortgages
4000 year student loans
That future might already be here. Obama has been in power for 2647 terrible and destructive days, and every one of them seemed like forever.
I've tried it. It isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Oh, and that is, of course, under the assumption that that hyperintelligence wants us around. Somebody has to change its vacuum tubes, I suppose, but there ought to be robots for that by then.
On a more serious note, there is an underlying and very unproven assumption that what we describe as human consciousness can be migrated to another medium. Quite a few years ago Roger Penrose suggested that it might not; that human consciousness might be a biological quantum event that is otherwise untranslatable. And further, that the Ghost in the Machine that Gilbert Ryle so ridiculed might actually have a basis in truth, that that silly "soul" thing that Christians are always nattering about might (gasp!) actually be real.
We don't know. We're not even close to being in a position to know, and all of this is mere speculation. It is clear, however, from testing on neural networking that a full human intelligence requires resources that are equal to a human brain and that it takes time to learn, to train, not to program. We have developed such a system already. It's called a "baby".
I might, of course, be entirely mistaken. I used to be a strong-AI proponent but I don't know, maybe it's just me, but there does seem to be a little more to it than that. Just my $0.02.
Signs of the times.
The quickening...so don’t lose your head.
” . . . and connecting our brains to the cloud will be available by then.”
Once dated a girl whose brains were connected to a cloud (or so it seemed); not sure if that’s going to be a that much of an improvement.
What there are articles in Playboy? /s