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    "Nanobots In Our Brains Will Make Us 'Godlike'"

    Ray Kurzweil: In The 2030s, Nanobots In Our Brains Will Make Us 'Godlike'

    Once we're cyborgs, he says, we'll be funnier, sexier and more loving.

    -Futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil predicts humans are going to develop emotions and characteristics of higher complexity as a result of connecting their brains to computers.
    “We’re going to be funnier. We’re going to be sexier. We’re going to be better at expressing loving sentiment,” Kurzweil said at a recent discussion at Singularity University. He is involved in developing artificial intelligence as a director of engineering at Google but was not speaking on behalf of the company.

    Kurzweil predicts that in the 2030s, human brains will be able to connect to the cloud, allowing us to send emails and photos directly to the brain and to back up our thoughts and memories. This will be possible, he says, via nanobots -- tiny robots from DNA strands -- swimming around in the capillaries of our brain. He sees the extension of our brain into predominantly nonbiological thinking as the next step in the evolution of humans -- just as learning to use tools was for our ancestors.

    And this extension, he says, will enhance not just our logical intelligence but also our emotional intelligence. “We’re going to add more levels to the hierarchy of brain modules and create deeper levels of expression,” he said. To demonstrate, he gave a hypothetical scenario with Google co-founder Larry Page.

    “So I’m walking along, and I see Larry Page coming, and I think, ‘I better think of something clever to say.’ But my 300 million modules in my neocortex isn’t going to cut it. I need a billion in two seconds. I’ll be able to access that in the cloud -- just like I can multiply intelligence with my smartphone thousands fold today.”

    In addition to making us cleverer in hallways, connecting our brains to the Internet will also make each of us more unique, he said.

    “Right now, we all have a very similar architecture to our thinking,” Kurzweil said. “When we can expand it without the limitations of a fixed enclosure" -- he pointed to his head -- "we we can actually become more different."

    “People will be able to very deeply explore some particular type of music in far greater degree than we can today. It’ll lead to far greater individuality, not less.”

    This view is in stark contrast to a common perception, often portrayed in science fiction, that cyborg technologies make us more robotic, less emotional and less human. This concern is expressed by Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, head of neuroengineering at Duke University, who fears that if we rely too much on machines, we’ll lose diversity in human behavior because computers operate in black and white -- ones and zeros -- without diversion...

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    That man is an idiot.

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    Been telling y'all for over a year what the future looks like. This is a good example of why I said Google is evil.

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    That man is an idiot.
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    Wouldn't it be great if we could but a christian chip inside the mind of liberals

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    This sounds like visions of the future in my dad's comics from the 50s and 60s. Maybe something like that will happen hundreds of years from now, some of it may not be possible at all. Applying it to people in general or even to a substantial part of the population would be extremely costly and difficult to manage and keep up. Kind of like sending a million people to colonize the nearest stars instead of sending a couple of people to Mars. He's a dreamer.
    More physical enhancements in terms of drugs and better eyesight etc is more possible. Anabolic steroid freaks already have this community thinking where they disrespect non-users as lesser beings. Abusers of other types of drugs can be a bit similar.

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