{"id":13666,"date":"2015-03-06T22:39:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T06:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13666"},"modified":"2015-06-08T19:14:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T02:14:44","slug":"singularity-reality-humanity-are-there-sophisticated-barbarians-in-silicon-valley-linking-the-human-brain-to-the-computer-exciting-or-frightening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/singularity-reality-humanity-are-there-sophisticated-barbarians-in-silicon-valley-linking-the-human-brain-to-the-computer-exciting-or-frightening","title":{"rendered":"Singularity? Reality? Humanity? Are there sophisticated Barbarians in Silicon Valley? Linking the Human Brain to the Computer \u2014 Exciting, or Frightening?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted: \u201cOnce you really solve a problem like direct brain-computer interface \u2026 when brains and computers can interact directly, to take just one example, that\u2019s it, that\u2019s the end of history, that\u2019s the end of biology as we know it. Nobody has a clue what will happen once you solve this. If life can basically break out of the organic realm into the vastness of the inorganic realm, you cannot even begin to imagine what the consequences will be, because your imagination at present is organic. So if there is a point of Singularity, as it\u2019s often referred to, by definition, we have no way of even starting to imagine what\u2019s happening beyond that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the article here &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/silicon-valley-mordor\/\">http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/silicon-valley-mordor\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted: \u201cOnce you really solve a problem like direct brain-computer interface \u2026 when brains and computers can interact directly, to take just one example, that\u2019s it, that\u2019s the end of history, that\u2019s the end of biology as we know it. Nobody has a clue what will happen once you solve this. If life can basically [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,40,1499,385,20,37,1500,64,1501,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-complex-systems","category-cyborgs","category-evolution","category-futurism","category-human-trajectories","category-posthumanism","category-singularity","category-transhumanism-2","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}