Raymond Kurzweil Quotes
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.Get Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.Get Image
Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.Get Image
My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there is no scientific test one can postulate that would definitively prove its existence in another entity. We assume that other biological human persons, at least those who are at least acting conscious, are indeed conscious. But this too is an assumption, and this shared human consensus breaks down when wGet Image
To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of reality (e.g., the spiritual level) to be not of this world. We can "go beyond" the "ordinary" powers of the material world through the power of patterns. Rather than a materialist, I would prefer to consider myself a "patternist." It's through the emergent powers of the pattern that we transcend.Get Image
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