Evolution Is A Process Of Creating Patterns

Take Death For Example. A Great Deal Of Our Effort Goes Into Avoiding It. We Make Extraordinary Efforts To Delay It, And Often Consider Its Intrusion A Tragic Event. Yet We'd Find It Hard To Live Without It. Death Gives Meaning To Our Lives. It Gives Importance And Value To Time. Time Would Become Meaningless If There Were Too Much Of It.

What We Found Was That Rather Than Being Haphazardly Arranged Or Independent Pathways, We Find That All Of The Pathways Of The Brain Taken Together Fit Together In A Single Exceedingly Simple Structure. They Basically Look Like A Cube. They Basically Run In Three Perpendicular Directions, And In Each One Of Those Three Directions The Pathways Are Highly Parallel To Each Other And Arranged In Arrays. So, Instead Of Independent Spaghettis, We See That The Connectivity Of The Brain Is, In A Sense, A Single Coherent Structure.

Sometimes People Talk About Conflict Between Humans And Machines, And You Can See That In A Lot Of Science Fiction. But The Machines Were Creating Are Not Some Invasion From Mars. We Create These Tools To Expand Our Own Reach.

Launching A Breakthrough Idea Is Like Shooting Skeet. People's Needs Change, So You Must Aim Well Ahead Of The Target To Hit It.

We Have The Means Right Now To Live Long Enough To Live Forever. Existing Knowledge Can Be Aggressively Applied To Dramatically Slow Down Aging Processes So We Can Still Be In Vital Health When The More Radical Life-extending Therapies From Biotechnology And Nanotechnology Become Available. But Most Baby Boomers Won't Make It Because They Are Unaware Of The Accelerating Aging Process In Their Bodies And The Opportunity To Intervene.