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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.

There Is One Brain Organ That Is Optimised For Understanding And Articulating Logical Processes And That Is The Outer Layer Of The Brain, Called The Cerebral Cortex. Unlike The Rest Of The Brain, This Relatively Recent Evolutionary Development Is Rather Flat, Only About 0.32 Cm (0.12 In) Thick And Includes A Mere 6 Million Neurons. This Elaborately Folded Organ Provides Us With What Little Competence We Do Possess For Understanding What We Do And Who We Do It.

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.

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