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Transhumanism for Children

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FROM SINGULARITY

by Nikki Olson on March 31, 2011

It is often pointed out that Transhumanism shares many features with religion. It answers questions regarding the nature of the world and humanity’s place in it, it offers guidance on how to live, and inspires hope. However, there are a number of important things distinguishing it from a religion, such as the lack of belief in a Deity and its emphasis on the empirical method and reason. Another distinguishing feature relates to the obstacles associated with teaching Transhumanism to children.

Although being religious as an adult entails contemplation of many of life’s more difficult questions, following a religion can and does occur at very young ages. Children are able to contemplate God to some extent, usually via the anthropomorphized metaphor of ‘the father’, they are able to associate simple moral behaviors with ideas of reward and punishment, and they become enthralled in the ‘magic like’ elements of religious miracle.

Are children capable of contemplating Transhumanism?

Article: http://singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com/transhumanism-for-children/

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Artificial Intelligence

Posted on by Marjorie Kaye Noble

Does it bother you, Miranda–not being real?

Define “real.”

In this case “real” means to be born and then to make your way–to fight in order to continue existing, and to procreate.

No, Gunter, it does not bother me because I see no advantage in being “real.”

p. 264

 

Buzzle. Com:

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Man

By Earl Hunsinger

Technology is a ubiquitous part of our daily life. Some feel that, through nanotechnology, it will soon be a part of us. They also believe that computers with artificial intelligence will be able to out-think us.

How fast is technology changing? According to many experts, faster than the majority of us think or are prepared for. According to one futurist, Ray Kurzweil, “we will have both the hardware and the software to achieve human level artificial intelligence with the broad suppleness of human intelligence including our emotional intelligence by 2029.” If that sounds like something from a scary movie (“Terminator” may come to mind), Mr. Kurzweil says not to worry, such super machines will also have morals and respect us as their creators (the people in scary movies rarely think that anything bad will happen to them either). He also believes that humans themselves will be smarter, healthier, and more capable in the near future by merging with our technology. For example, tiny robots implanted in our brains will work directly with our neurons to make us smarter (this may call to mind some other movies).

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of-man.html

 

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Smart Homes: Is AI the Ghost in the Machine?

Posted on by Marjorie Kaye Noble

From Singularity

by Nikki Olson on March 7, 2011

When we conceptualize AI, we often forget that it is not something that has to operate in a single location, or have intelligence qualities like our own. We are already surrounded by AI systems that are nothing like our own intelligence, that utilize many machines spread out over large distances, and are equally ‘present’ in many locations.

In the future we will bring AI systems like these into our homes in the form of ‘smart environments.’  In doing so we introduce new and interesting relationships between man and machine. However, there may be some limits as to how ‘alive’ we want our AI homes to be.

For entire article–

http://singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com/smart-homes-is-ai-the-ghost-in-the-machine/