I stopped reading when he said he was an atheist but wasn't religious.
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 11:57 AM, John Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > Matt, > > Some religions say that our souls or essences are instantiated in this life > from other worlds, so the better word might be "transbeingism"? IOW we were > uploaded here. Then you might ask how come we don't remember anything. I'd > say maybe our memories are stored offline in another location. You just > don't know. We do know that distant memories from this world are encoded in > DNA. Much of "you" is from other lifetimes experiences of the multi-agent > human intelligence. And that human intelligence passed on might be quite > diverse, this "human" form might be temporary. As there might be for a > future AGI "people zoos" there can be people zoos from the past as a > historical timeline of our consciousness carrying essence from being to > being. It could be an endless chain of evolutionary hybrids and we're each > a > people zoo in ourselves DNA-wise. IOW there might a little of Noah's Ark in > all of us :) > > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2515969/Humans-evolved-female > -chimpanzee-mated-pig-Extraordinary-claim-American-geneticist.html > > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 4:03 PM > To: AGI > Subject: Re: [agi] Huffington Post on AGI and the "Jesus Singularity" > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zoltan-istvan/are-we-heading-for-a-jesu_ > > b_5002863.html > > I guess where the article says "Many experts, including Dr. Ben Goertzel", > what they really mean is "Dr. Ben Goertzel". Why should they do any more > research than they have to? > > But let's ignore the fact that no congress-person would ever admit to being > an atheist. Few would even dare to claim that humans evolved from monkeys, > for fear of pissing off some percent of their voters. > How many politicians do you know that will say anything at all that is the > least bit controversial? > > That said, I really doubt that there will be a "Jesus Singularity". > Religion does not have anything to say about modern transhumanism. It says > your soul will go to heaven or hell. It doesn't say that when you die, your > soul will transfer to a robot that sort of looks and acts like you. > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10514698-9a8cda1e > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
