Still enjoying the Kurzweil book
Every day I look forward to reading a bit more of The Singularity Is Near.
Today's excerpt:
We will continue to have human bodies, but they will become morphable projections of our intelligence. In other words, . . . we will be able to create and re-create different bodies at will. However achieved, will such fundamental shifts enable us to live forever? The answer depends on what we mean by “living” and “dying.” Consider what we do today with our personal computer files. When we change from an older computer to a newer one, we don't throw all our files away. . . . . Ultimately software-based humans will be vastly extended beyond the limitations of humans as we know them today. They will live out on the Web. . . .
Kurzweil doesn't believe that death is inevitable or desirable. Chew on that for a while. Maybe we believe that death is a good idea because the only way of existence we've known always ends in death — it's the ultimate is-ism argument.
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