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Within A Few Decades, Machine Intelligence Will Surpass Human Intelligence, Leading To The Singularity -- Technological Change So Rapid And Profound It Represents A Rupture In The Fabric Of Human History. The Implications Include The Merger Of Biological And Nonbiological Intelligence, Immortal Software-based Humans, And Ultra-high Levels Of Intelligence That Expand Outward In The Universe At The Speed Of Light.

We Appear To Be Programmed With The Idea That There Are 'things' Outside Of Our Self, And Some Are Conscious, And Some Are Not.

We Have The Means Right Now To Live Long Enough To Live Forever. Existing Knowledge Can Be Aggressively Applied To Dramatically Slow Down Aging Processes So We Can Still Be In Vital Health When The More Radical Life-extending Therapies From Biotechnology And Nanotechnology Become Available. But Most Baby Boomers Won't Make It Because They Are Unaware Of The Accelerating Aging Process In Their Bodies And The Opportunity To Intervene.

A Successful Person Isn't Necessarily Better Than Her Less Successful Peers At Solving Problems; Her Pattern-recognition Facilities Have Just Learned What Problems Are Worth Solving.

The Singularity Denotes An Event That Will Take Place In The Material World, The Inevitable Next Step In The Evolutionary Process That Started With Biological Evolution And Has Extended Through Human-directed Technological Evolution. However, It Is Precisely In The World Of Matter And Energy That We Encounter Transcendence, A Principal Connotation Of What People Refer To As Spirituality.