The Key Issue As To Whether Or

To Transcend Means To "go Beyond," But This Need Not Compel Us To An Ornate Dualist View That Regards Transcendent Levels Of Reality (e.g., The Spiritual Level) To Be Not Of This World. We Can "go Beyond" The "ordinary" Powers Of The Material World Through The Power Of Patterns. Rather Than A Materialist, I Would Prefer To Consider Myself A "patternist." It's Through The Emergent Powers Of The Pattern That We Transcend.

Inventing Is A Lot Like Surfing: You Have To Anticipate And Catch The Wave At Just The Right Moment.

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

The Singularity Denotes An Event That Will Take Place In The Material World, The Inevitable Next Step In The Evolutionary Process That Started With Biological Evolution And Has Extended Through Human-directed Technological Evolution. However, It Is Precisely In The World Of Matter And Energy That We Encounter Transcendence, A Principal Connotation Of What People Refer To As Spirituality.

Supercomputers Will Achieve One Human Brain Capacity By 2010, And Personal Computers Will Do So By About 2020.