The Story Of Evolution Unfolds With Increasing

By The 2030s, The Nonbiological Portion Of Our Intelligence Will Predominate.

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'm An Inventor. I Became Interested In Long-term Trends Because An Invention Has To Make Sense In The World In Which It Is Finished, Not The World In Which It Is Started.

A Lot Of Movies About Artificial Intelligence Envision That Ais Will Be Very Intelligent But Missing Some Key Emotional Qualities Of Humans And Therefore Turn Out To Be Very Dangerous.

The Fate Of The Universe Is A Decision Yet To Be Made, One Which We Will Intelligently Consider When The Time Is Right.