George Rebane
There was an interesting exchange on Ray Kurzweil’s website between Kurzweil and a reader with a “disturbing thought” about post-Sinularity trans-humans some day running out of ‘stuff’ on which to store their ever-expanding knowledge base and on which to do the ever more expansive ‘thinking’ that presumably we will then be able to do (here).
The reader was concerned about a future gargantuan conflict as such beings competed for the limited matter/energy in the universe. Their conversation wound up contemplating either our evolution into God(s), or the already achieved existence of God through such a process.
Neither participant seemed to realize that the likelihood of all such scenarios is low because they depend on Homo Sapiens being the only sentient and sapient species in this universe. Most of us studied in such conversations cannot conceive of the case in which we find ourselves alone. And if we are not alone, then the probability that anything of such post-Singularity nature has already happened is close to unity – since if we are not alone, then we are also not in a privileged point in time, i.e. we are not the species in the forefront of any such development or evolution.
It seems then that this argument fortifies the notion that, relative to Homo Sapiens, God already exists. And it also then provides credence to the notion held by many leading scientists today that we may live – and all of our perceived existence is – in a running program.
I’ll have more to say about this at a later time. But in the interval, such reasoning threads should maximally disrupt the belief systems of calcified secular humanists – e.g. those who blindly insist that intelligent design has no provenance of its own and is merely a code word for creationism.
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