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NOIES
of course, is something that people have desired ever since humans, alone in
the animal kingdom, began to contemplate our own mortality. Commenting
on immortality, Woody Allen once said, "I don't want to achieve immortality
through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. I don't want to live
on in the hearts of my countrymen. I would rather live on in my apartment."
Moravec, in particular, believes that in the far future we will merge with our
creations to create a higher order of intelligence. This would require duplicating the 100 billion neurons that are in our brain, each of which in turn is
connected to perhaps several thousand other neurons. As we sit on the operating room table, there is a robot shell lying next to us. Surgery is performed
such that as we remove a single neuron a duplicate silicon neuron is created
in the robot shell. As time goes by every single neuron in our body is replaced by a silicon neuron in the robot, so that we are conscious throughout
the operation. At the end, our entire brain has been continuously transferred
into the robot shell while we witnessed the entire event. One day we are dying in our decrepit, decaying body. The next day we find ourselves inside immortal bodies, with the same memories and personality, without losing
consciousness.
8:
EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND UFOS
Page 132: Nevertheless, Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at SETI, optimistically believes... Jason Stahl, Discover Magazine, "Top 100 Stores of
2006," December 2006, p. 80.
Page 134: "It's hard to imagine how life could survive that extreme onslaught," he says. Cavelos, p. 13.
Page 135: French astronomer Dr. Jacques Lasher estimates that... Cavelos, p. 12.
Page 136: "We believe that life in the form of microbes..." Ward and
Brownlee, p. xiv.
Page 137: "We're the first generation that has a realistic chance of discovering life on another planet." Cavelos, p. 26.
Page 146: As I've discussed in my previous books... In general, although
local languages and cultures will continue to thrive in different regions of
the Earth, there will emerge a planetary language and culture that spans the
continents. This global and local culture will exist simultaneously. This situation already exists with regards to the elites of all societies.
There are also forces that oppose this march to a planetary system.
These are the terrorists who unconsciously, instinctively, realize that the
progression to a planetary civilization is one that will make tolerance and
secular pluralism a centerpiece of their emerging culture, and this prospect
is a threat to people who feel more comfortable living in the last millennium.
9:
STARSHIPS
Page 155: Mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell once
lamented... Kaku, Hyperspace, p. 302.
NOIES
of course, is something that people have desired ever since humans, alone in
the animal kingdom, began to contemplate our own mortality. Commenting
on immortality, Woody Allen once said, "I don't want to achieve immortality
through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. I don't want to live
on in the hearts of my countrymen. I would rather live on in my apartment."
Moravec, in particular, believes that in the far future we will merge with our
creations to create a higher order of intelligence. This would require duplicating the 100 billion neurons that are in our brain, each of which in turn is
connected to perhaps several thousand other neurons. As we sit on the operating room table, there is a robot shell lying next to us. Surgery is performed
such that as we remove a single neuron a duplicate silicon neuron is created
in the robot shell. As time goes by every single neuron in our body is replaced by a silicon neuron in the robot, so that we are conscious throughout
the operation. At the end, our entire brain has been continuously transferred
into the robot shell while we witnessed the entire event. One day we are dying in our decrepit, decaying body. The next day we find ourselves inside immortal bodies, with the same memories and personality, without losing
consciousness.
8:
EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND UFOS
Page 132: Nevertheless, Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at SETI, optimistically believes... Jason Stahl, Discover Magazine, "Top 100 Stores of
2006," December 2006, p. 80.
Page 134: "It's hard to imagine how life could survive that extreme onslaught," he says. Cavelos, p. 13.
Page 135: French astronomer Dr. Jacques Lasher estimates that... Cavelos, p. 12.
Page 136: "We believe that life in the form of microbes..." Ward and
Brownlee, p. xiv.
Page 137: "We're the first generation that has a realistic chance of discovering life on another planet." Cavelos, p. 26.
Page 146: As I've discussed in my previous books... In general, although
local languages and cultures will continue to thrive in different regions of
the Earth, there will emerge a planetary language and culture that spans the
continents. This global and local culture will exist simultaneously. This situation already exists with regards to the elites of all societies.
There are also forces that oppose this march to a planetary system.
These are the terrorists who unconsciously, instinctively, realize that the
progression to a planetary civilization is one that will make tolerance and
secular pluralism a centerpiece of their emerging culture, and this prospect
is a threat to people who feel more comfortable living in the last millennium.
9:
STARSHIPS
Page 155: Mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell once
lamented... Kaku, Hyperspace, p. 302.