Interpreting the Singularity

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As science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke has pointed out, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The gap between today and tomorrow is closing at a staggering rate, while the future continues to become more and more surreal. A perfect example comes from the work of inventor/futurist Ray Kurzweil, who often talks about a point sometime in the next 50 years when our rate of technological progress begins to approach the infinite—an event he calls "the Singularity." This essentially represents the event horizon of our own technological evolution, beyond which we simply cannot imagine. Is there actually something to the concept of the Singularity, or is it just a sort of mythical Rapture for tech geeks? What are the implications of such exponential advancement of technology to human consciousness? As data becomes more and more free, and therefore more and more ubiquitous, how can the Integral vision help us navigate the "global brain" currently under construction?

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: February 13, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Author: IntegralNaked

Length: 0:12:30
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Tags: Ken Wilber Integral Naked Singularity Spirituality Science Futurism

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faszika (Thursday 30th of October 2008 01:38:50 PM)
hive mind
pepinthelucky (Wednesday 1st of October 2008 03:16:31 PM)
Post-modernisim is the nuclear bomb of language. It destroys everything leaving only bits and pieces to be reassembled by whoever wants to. We have seen it used by neo-cons to justify torture. With so many conflicting points of view in the media how do you know what is true any more? You research an article far enough and you will eventualy end up with a conflicting story. Reality itself is shattering, and yet I can see no way to stop it. Maybe these people have a way... Maybe.
MaBu888 (Thursday 30th of October 2008 12:37:12 AM)
It's all in the way of thinking. All this shattering is quite pathological...
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danger0usknowledge (Thursday 25th of September 2008 11:08:20 AM)
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trakkaton (Sunday 20th of July 2008 04:54:12 AM)
I'd rather say that it is more likely that some predictable technological innovation will kill most of us long before AI has the chance. I don't think that the difficult design would hinder the construction of a super intelligent AI. Once the AI has taken the basic obstacles that make it SciFi nowadays we will let them work for themselves. They will evolve from lower AI to higher AI without human interference. All you need is hardware, energy and time. Why waste highly trained human personal?
emilesland (Saturday 19th of July 2008 03:33:14 PM)
That was filmed before Web 2.0. The Integral Institute has been building a custom Web 2.0 portal for awhile now that will be launched this month.
politicoaz (Tuesday 24th of June 2008 09:10:09 AM)
I am going to ignore your hostility and entertain your idea here for a second. What about Kurzweil is "full of shit"? Do you not buy the exponential growth of info tech? Or is it the end result (in so far as we can imagine the "end") that he predicts? Give us information rather than dropping the random vulgarity that offers nothing to a discussion.
3rdWorldCrusader (Friday 15th of August 2008 11:23:08 AM)
Kurzweil is a dick.