{"id":29073,"date":"2016-08-18T15:32:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T22:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/why-ray-kurzweil-believes-we-are-becoming-more-god-like-video"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:56:00","slug":"why-ray-kurzweil-believes-we-are-becoming-more-god-like-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/why-ray-kurzweil-believes-we-are-becoming-more-god-like-video","title":{"rendered":"Why Ray Kurzweil Believes We Are Becoming More God-Like [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-JvfdmPp3d8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ray believes we\u2019re becoming gods.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>People tend to ask Ray Kurzweil all manner of questions about technology and the future. But they also want to know about his own personal philosophy. In one session last summer, a questioner asked Kurzweil if he believes in God. Of course, many of us struggle with the question, he replied, and to him, it\u2019s not unambiguous.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s variability in how we describe God, but he thinks there are some commonalities. Shared traits include creativity, love, and intelligence\u2014attributes we tend to also value in conscious beings. To Kurzweil, consciousness is the ultimate measure of spirituality. Much of our morality is based on whether an entity is conscious or not (even though it\u2019s still hard to define).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><i>\u201cEveryone with very few outliers believes in the sacredness of a conscious person, and in fact, non-conscious things, like a machine or a diamond, are only important in so far as they affect the conscious experience of conscious beings.\u201d <\/i><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/18\/why-ray-kurzweil-believes-we-are-becoming-more-god-like-video\/\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/18\/why-ray-kurzweil-believ...ike-video\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray believes we\u2019re becoming gods. People tend to ask Ray Kurzweil all manner of questions about technology and the future. But they also want to know about his own personal philosophy. In one session last summer, a questioner asked Kurzweil if he believes in God. Of course, many of us struggle with the question, he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,2018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-ray-kurzweil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29073","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=29073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60738,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29073\/revisions\/60738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}