paradigm shift (singularity)

Converging technology demands that we ask some serious questions very soon.

this is a collaboration project that i did with Particleion, check out his youtube page http://www.youtube.com/user/particleion

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• paradigm
• shift
• singularity
• converging
• technology
• transhuman
• posthuman
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• computing
• artificial
• intelligence
• ai
• internet
• robot
• asimo
• kurzweil
• kevin
• warwick
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• bostrom
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[devildogmre]

ADD, your videos continue to inspire.

Good editing.

[ADDTV]

thank you. much of the credit goes to Particleion.

[caveatemp]

This is by far the biggest issue of our time. And because the transhumanists say AI will be so far beyond the 'terans' it is clear that the singularity is the technological hell looming on the virtual event horizon.

[Exmech2]

As cells compose the human, and humans compose the nation, nations compose the civilization. It is he step inbetween nations and civilization where the definition of "free-will" becomes a fuzzy idea at best, if not distinguishable at all.

And at that, you have left me with some things to think about. :-)

[Origen305]

I am glad we can reach some mutual agreement. The pleasure of informal debate is not the polemic itself (though you drrm sd krrn on this as I am), but rather sharing frames of reference, which nourish and inform both parties with different perspectives. I maintain we have much to fear from the transhumanist movement, particularly as the traditional ethical theories...Virtue Ethics, Deontology, Utilitrianism and faith-based morality are abandoned, I fear 'hubris', leaving Daedulus to perish.

[Exmech2]

[and self-governed change to what it means to be human]

I'm not convinced we have any control at all.

[of what it is to be human]

This is exactly what the Ape knows. What it is to be Human. The ape no longer knows what it is to be Ape. As we will one day know what it is to be not Human.

[Origen305]

The internet analogy is interesting but can't begin to describe the fundamental and self-governed change to what it means to be human. The ethical issues I raise above are serious enough for governments, or majority movements to intervene to halt, regulate, even criminalise certain actions/procedures for the overall good of humanity. If we call it wrong we may forfeit the very essenence of what it is to be human, or unknowingly sow the seeds of our own extinction - weighty ethical issues indeed