XPost: alt.philosophy, alt.atheism
From: Reanimater_2000@yahoo.com
"Dianelos Georgoudis" wrote in message
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> Joseph H wrote:
>> Now, I've had a little think about Mr.Kurzweil's prognostications and
>> I'm not as
>> imprerssed as I was initially. What's he saying? That advancing
>> technology and artificial-intelligence will quite soon, and quite
>> suddenly, push us into a post-human phase.
>
> The biggest problem I see with Kurzweil's vision is that if evolution
> must end in an explosive growth of machine intelligence that quickly
> expands throughout the universe then the universe should already be
> swamped with intelligence - which it is not. There are some
> alternatives that save Kurzweil's vision but they don't look good: that
> our earth is the very first planet where intelligence took hold (very
> unlikely), or that our region of the universe is kept like some kind of
> natural park and that the rest of the universe uses communication
> methods too sophisticated for us to even notice (very weird). The most
> sensible alternatives are that the growth of intelligence ends with
> self-destruction, or that the growth of intelligence ends with a
> pastoral society based on spiritual values. Both these alternative
> futures explain why the cosmos is as quiet as it seems to be.
>
Suppose that planets like ours that have life need this long in the
universe's history to happen? Meaning that the other supernovas and prior to
earth events might be required to produce the necessary elements for life on
earth like planets. If that were the case then these machines might be
coming towards us but the light is to far out there now and might take
millions of years to get here.
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