The Singularity and Transhumansim for Light workers
Overview of singularity
I have been listening to discussions about the Singularity. Simply the point when technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence occurs. I have provided links to the Singularity, some very big people in the computer and research worlds who offer grants and funding. The goal is to achieve friendly singularity before someone creates unfriendly smarter-than-human intelligence. It also has obvious strategic advantage reasons for pursuing these goals. The research crosses many fields from nano, genetic, artificial intelligence and human machine interface to name a few.
I am curious what Light workers think about why there is very little talk of spirituality or ascended consciousness. Things like the 5th attention as in Carlos Castaneda’s work.
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The Singularity Institute exists to confront the challenge of powerful AI, both the opportunity and the risk. This link goes to media – audio/video that you can download to understand the research. Tran-humanism is the preparation for the next race of mankind, or enhanced humans. Perhaps X-men, and Heroes is preparation for this race of beings?
http://www.singinst.org/media/
The Singularity is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence. There are several technologies that are often mentioned as heading in this direction. The most commonly mentioned is probably Artificial Intelligence, but there are others: direct brain-computer interfaces, biological augmentation of the brain, genetic engineering, ultra-high-resolution scans of the brain followed by computer emulation. Some of these technologies seem likely to arrive much earlier than the others, but there are nonetheless several independent technologies all heading in the direction of the Singularity – several different technologies which, if they reached a threshold level of sophistication, would enable the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence.
http://www.singinst.org/overview/
By: Michael H. Cohen
First, I admire and appreciate your work and that of like-minded explorers. It has been an education trying to digest this material after reading "The Singularity is Near" as a starting point. Has anyone explored the connections between the Singularity and spirituality? I'm a lawyer who specializes in health care issues relating to complementary and alternative medicine. I have also explored energy healing. The idea of balance is important in many "CAM" therapies, such as acupuncture. So is the mind. It is difficult to write about "consciousness" since there are so many perspectives and every academic or scientists wants to weigh in. Nonetheless, any cursory experience with meditation or even hypnotherapy is enough to demonstrate to most open-minded persons that consciousness matters, that states of mind are possible in which we can experience foresight, compassion, and states of being beyond rational, linear thinking. There is a possible meeting place here beyond the rigidity of religious doctrine. Most of the writing around the Singularity seems to come from the rational perspective, arguing for collective action by way of safeguards -- and this is doubtless critical - but what of the human spiritual evolution to correspond with these upleaps in technological acceleration? This, it seems, would be a useful vantage from which to view our progress (or lack therefore) and/or create benchmarks for work toward anticipating what you aptly call "the critical point of all human history" to which "almost no one is paying serious attention."