Is there a need for Nanotechnology in the transhumanist model of evolution? No. Kurzweil is a nutcase, and the recent series on the Natgeo channel "Year Million": - exploring various possibilities in the distance future, has a major flaw: Make that three flaws:
1. First flaw is that the more desirable (for most) choice in the distant future would be to upload one's "consciousness" onto a virtual reality type of internet, while the physical body is stored someplace. IMO Dumbest idea I've ever heard of. Those TV producers are assuming that one's identity is solely memories, and if one can tap into the brain mechanically, those memories constitute the "you"; and given time, technology will provide the means of uploading the memories into what they called The HIVE: (a shared virtual reality world that everybody on earth is invited to get into). 2. Next problem: leaving the physical body behind somewhere. (this could get messy). Obviously inspired by the Matrix movies. Leave me out of that world. 3. Third major flaw. It assumes that Descartes dualism (the Soul can be separate from the body). is false and that only Naturalism is the real model (that only physical matter exists as information.). Then, their phoney logic jumps from the "information" part (the "you" is only the information contained in memories), to an eternal "you" in the HIVE world (a shared Internet virtual world). An alternative to the "Year Million" model of living in the Internet HIVE is the Sant Mat model: develop the ability to travel outside the physical body to anyplace in the multiverse. Then, when the physical body naturally dies, one is free to live in any subtle realm (only returning to the physical world by choice as an Avatar). SHALOM
