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Aleks Krotoski

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
241 total appearances

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All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

Then you have the technologists like Ray Kurzweil, who is the AI visionary at Google.

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

He believes that we will experience something known as the singularity.

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

And the singularity is the moment at which the technology becomes so advanced that we merge with it.

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

At some point in the future, and it's always 10 years in the future.

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

It doesn't matter if he said this 15 years ago.

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

It was supposed to be five years ago.

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

He said it last year.

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

It's going to be in another 10 years, right?

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

But in those years, that's when it's going to happen when we will merge with technology.

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

And at that point, we will experience technology.

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

Singularity, everything will come into focus and life afterwards will be mediated and moderated by technology, nanobots, digital DNA, servers that live inside of our brains.

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

Elon Musk's Neuralink is one of the interfaces that they're hoping is going to be this server that's going to essentially fix anything that goes wrong inside of us.

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

And that is how we are going to live forever because immortality, that's what's going to happen.

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

We will die.

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

naturally become post-human.

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

And that's the second form of immortality.

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

A related third form is the sort of the political angle of this, which is rather than just saying, yay, that's going to happen in the future, the transhumanist movement say that not only will this happen, but we have a fundamental right and a responsibility to hack our bodies today.

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

So that in the future, we will achieve the singularity.

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

So it must happen.

All In The Mind
Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

And it politically must happen.