Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own b…
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Ray Kurzweil
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About Ray Kurzweil
Raymond Kurzweil is an American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist, and inventor. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health technology, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Kurzweil is a prominent transhumanist who gives lectures about his optimistic outlook on the possibility …
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Ray KurzweilBy the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.