Ray Kurzweil presents his vision of The Singularity. Osama bin Laden presents his vision of The Muslim World. A momentary comparison is helpful.
Moving to a point when computers have more capability than the human mind is the core of Kurzweil's argument - as I understand the message. In the view of Gary Wolf (Wired magazine April 8) the aim of this futurist is to "become a robot - the robots of his dreams are complex, funny, loving machines".
A world where the Qur'an with its message from Allah is the order of the day everywhere appears to be the project for bin Laden. In the view of Michael Scheuer (Marching Toward Hell 2008) the purpose of bin Laden is to do away with American democracy and liberty in that it disrupts the Islamic vision.
Holding these two visions together in the mind is to stretch ambiguity beyond its limits. The attempt to rationalize and make comfortable these viewpoints is doomed to failure in the universe that I experience. And yet I believe it is necessary to explore the territory between these two approaches and discover their message for the human experiment.
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- Delton Krueger
- Being in my upper 80s means that I have more experience than energy. This is simply my experience.
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