As You Go Out To The 2040s,

As You Go Out To The 2040s, Now The Bulk Of Our Thinking Is Out In The Cloud. The Biological Portion Of Our Brain Didn't Go Away But The Nonbiological Portion Will Be Much More Powerful. And It Will Be Uploaded Automatically The Way We Back Up Everything Now That's Digital.

My View Is That Consciousness, The Seat Of "personalness," Is The Ultimate Reality, And Is Also Scientifically Impenetrable. In Other Words, There Is No Scientific Test One Can Postulate That Would Definitively Prove Its Existence In Another Entity. We Assume That Other Biological Human Persons, At Least Those Who Are At Least Acting Conscious, Are Indeed Conscious. But This Too Is An Assumption, And This Shared Human Consensus Breaks Down When We Go Beyond Human Experience (e.g., The Debate On Animal Consciousness, And By Extension Animal Rights).

I Do Have To Pick My Priorities. Nobody Can Do Everything.

Does God Exist? Well, I Would Say, 'not Yet'.

In 1999, I Said That In About A Decade We Would See Technologies Such As Self-driving Cars And Mobile Phones That Could Answer Your Questions, And People Criticized These Predictions As Unrealistic.