{"id":25903,"date":"2016-05-19T22:33:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T05:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/is-the-singularity-a-religious-doctrine"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:47:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:47:38","slug":"is-the-singularity-a-religious-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/is-the-singularity-a-religious-doctrine","title":{"rendered":"Is The Singularity A Religious Doctrine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-the-singularity-a-religious-doctrine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New spin on all things that are Singular. Hmmm \u2014 so if Singularity becomes a religion; is Ray Kurzweil its God?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A colleague forwarded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnhorgan.org\/\">John Horgan<\/a>\u2019s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/\">Scientific American<\/a> article, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/cross-check\/the-singularity-and-the-neural-code\/\">The Singularity and the Neural Code<\/a>.\u201d Horgan argues that the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intelligence_amplification\">intelligence augmentation<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mind_uploading\">mind uploading<\/a> that would lead to a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Technological_singularity\">technological singularity<\/a> depend upon cracking the neural code. The problem is that we don\u2019t understand our neural code, the software or algorithms that transform neurophysiology into the stuff of minds like perceptions, memories, and meanings. In other words, we know very little about how brains make minds.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/ieet.org\/index.php\/IEET\/more\/Messerly20160423\">http:\/\/ieet.org\/index.php\/IEET\/more\/Messerly20160423<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New spin on all things that are Singular. Hmmm \u2014 so if Singularity becomes a religion; is Ray Kurzweil its God? A colleague forwarded John Horgan\u2019s recent Scientific American article, \u201cThe Singularity and the Neural Code.\u201d Horgan argues that the intelligence augmentation and mind uploading that would lead to a technological singularity depend upon cracking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,47,2018,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-neuroscience","category-ray-kurzweil","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25903","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50444,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25903\/revisions\/50444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}