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2. The Singularity Is Near- When Humans Transcend Biology

   The Singularity Is Near

   When Humans Transcend Biology:
   • Book by Ray Kurzweil.
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    Examkrackers 1001 McAt Biology Questions (Examkrackers)

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The Singularity Is Near- When Humans Transcend Biology

The Singularity Is Near

When Humans Transcend Biology:

• Review:: 'A Nerd's Wet Dream A friend recommended this book to me, so I was excited to read about a futurist's view on technology and medicine, since I work in biotechnology research for medical applications. However, the outrageous claims and messianic wild-eyed tone of this book really cranked up my B.S.-meter. Kurzweil's admitting to taking *250* (!) supplements a day both orally and IV was the real clincher. This guy is neurotic. He is so afraid of his own death, so blinded by technology and his scientific orgasms, that he fails to take into account the complexity of the human condition, both individually and collectively. He ignores those facets of being human that don't jibe with his hyper-intellectual, reductionist views. Human beings evolved to both think AND to feel. He has reduced human beings to merely thinking machines. He dreams of a future where we transfer our consciousness to robots, thus shedding the mortal coil of our biological bodies (which he hilariously calls 'version 1.0'). But having a biological body is an intrinsic aspect of being human. So much of our life revolves around eating, sleeping, dreaming, touching, sex, growing, and so on. If we give all that up, will we still be human? What's more, many people don't see death as the end of their consciousness, as they believe in the immortality of the soul. Kurzweil comes from a very narrow cultural niche, the nerdy materialist/atheist Western technologist. How many people of the world, from the devout religious folks of Islam and Christianity, to the earth-centered native peoples around the globe and New Agers, will buy into this technolust vision? Don't hold your breath waiting for 2045.
• Review:: 'An Absolute Gem of a Book Ray Kurzweil is a national treasure, a man who thinks at the level of Einstein but only 50 years later. There are a number of people like Kurzweil walking around on the planet. You have to search for them. When you find them, try to learn everything you can from them. They will help you move exponentially to the next level. He is a solitary thinker, operating on the outer limits of human knowledge, and then some. I have read his other books, and in many ways, this book is the sequel to "The Age of Spiritual Machines". What Kurzweil is writing about in this book is his belief that we are moving towards s UNION if you will, of human intelligence and machines or objects that will have equal and eventually superior intelligence. Is this the goal of the people who spend their lives working in Artificial Intelligence, probably? The difference is that Kurzweil knows so much more than his fellow thinkers, and more importantly for us, he has the capacity to convey it to those of us who are not full-time players in his arena. This quality of information conveyance is a vastly underappreciated skill. In my work investing billions of dollars in stock investments, I have access to just about anybody I want, because I have the capacity to write a check. You have no idea how many actual geniuses I deal with who CAN'T speak, let alone write the English language. Kurzweil is different. He can get these concepts across to us in an interesting language spiced with stories that we can all understand. He does not visibly suffer from the ego needs of most geniuses. He is comfortable in his own skin, and that feeling is conveyed to us also. Due to his position in the exalted world of the super Mensa types, Kurzweil can also access the top minds of who's doing what in the world today. Men who run Fortune 100 companies are more than willing to share the knowledge of their research departments with this famous thinker. At the upper levels of the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Defense Department are some of the smartest people on the planet working on Artificial Intelligence, and edge-of-knowledge sophisticated computer applications. Kurzweil is in a position to interact with all of them, and this accounts for why much of what he writes about appears nowhere else. He also brings something else to the table. He is a very successful inventor and entrepreneur who is now independently wealthy. He knows what works in what environment, and what doesn't. He knows when something is being brought to market too early, or way too late. In the book he states, "I realized that most inventions fail not because the R&D department can't get them to work, but because the timing is wrong. Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment." I am an investor; I have never heard it said better. His concept of his "intuitive linear view of history" is absolutely fascinating, and compelling. He believes that the rate of change is accelerating. For years we have all heard the concept that the only constant is change. Kurzweil believes the calculus is changing. We have already entered a world where we are witnessing a dramatic change in the rate of acceleration of change. Just ten or so years ago, cell phones had minimal impact. The Internet was nowhere near the adaptive state it is in today, and universal information flow did not exist. There were no bloggers, traditional media dominated, and people were more easily lied to by politicians with impunity. Things are changing aren't they? Here's the bottom line on Kurzweil. Most of the time you read a book to take one major thought out of the document. Sometimes it's a single page; sometimes it's a single line. Occasionally, you find that rare book where there is something on every page that is outstanding, motivating, even framework changing. This is such a book, and therein lays its importance. There's one more reason to read a book like this. Do you remember when Ross Perot ran for President? One of the metaphors he used to refer to was a story of the carpenter he knew. The words were "Measure twice, cut once." This is an example of what I call the need to be mentored. There are people that can teach you things that if you spent 20 years studying the topic, you would never learn. The carpenters' of "Measure twice, cut once," is an example of that. When you read Kurzweil, you are eliminating the need to read hundreds to thousands of other books. There is knowledge on every page for you to absorb and ponder. Buy this book, and have an orgasm of the mind. Richard Stoyeck
• Review:: 'Moores Law is not universally applicable For the few examples of exponential growth, most notably Moore's Law, there are 10 (battery life, transportation speed, food production per acre, life span, etc) of areas that we have devoted a great deal of effort towards improving without exponential returns. While this book presents some interesting points it is little more than psuedo science. Perhaps Kurzweil's most important conclusion, that we are nothing more than biological computers, is the most scary. The conclusion of this, that he does not raise, is that there is no free will. Maybe he is correct, I doubt it though.
• Review:: 'Great facts and sources on future of IT but is the Singularity just wishful thinking? I have used this text and its precursors in my teaching of IT Trends & Futures for some years now in order to encourage my students to think critically & objectively about the implications of exponential growth. I also present them with Bill Joy's "moratorium on technology " idea and the views of those who think its all so fanciful that it cant/wont/shouldn't happen. I found K's charts in Chapter1 very convincing and the 6 epoch notion quite plausible. However when it comes to GNR I do not think the author has presented enough convincing or scholarly illustrations or arguments. There is good coverage of Genotech but too little substance on Nanotech or on Strong AI/Robotics. In many ways his coverage of both the latter could therefore be dismissed as wishful thinking rather than a fact-based overview of where these technologies are headed. The cartoon of K holding the Singularity Is Near placard says a lot! Some students have pointed out that K's future vision seems a bit like fundamentalist rapture or Armagedon. Can we expect the Creationist/ID lobby to start preaching from this book? Martin Rees, England's Astronomer Royal makes similar observations in "Our Final Hour" [page 16-19] where he observes that "belief in the Singularity relates to mainstream futurology rather as the milenerian hope of 'Rapture' relates to mainstream xtianity". On the other hand this text effectively spreads the message that we are all living in a critical period of evolution and there is need for a greater understanding of the possible impact of exponential growth., which may well be more critical and threatening to all our futures than the other demons of global warming and globalisation, which are both more extensively written about.
• Review:: 'Take care of yourself - immortality is near! Ray Kurzweil's books always invoke contradictory emotions in me - excitement generated by his bold predictions and wariness toward some of its implications. In the `Singularity is Near' Kurzweil is true to form. He continues where he left off in his previous book `The Age of Spiritual Machines' and presents a thrilling version of the future of our civilization. In the picture that Kurzweil unveils, the pace of change of human created technology is accelerating and its powers are expanding at an exponential rate. Human life will be completely and irreversibly transformed within the next few decades by developments in biology and nanotechnology. This will enable humanity to shed the biological conditions of mortality and limited brain power (intelligence). The non biological intelligence harnessed would be millions of times more powerful and would help us colonize the Universe. He calls this the point of Singularity at which time we lose the distinction between man and machine as well as between physical and virtual reality. Kurzweil has no qualms on setting a date for the Singularity. It is 2045. By that time, he claims, we would have completely reverse engineered the human brain, and would be leveraging non biological intelligence a billion times more powerful. We would be able to change or upgrade any part of the human body and would be able to practically live for ever (if you are still alive then). Kurzweil is very confident that other serious issues confronting humanity such as poverty, hunger, energy shortage, global warming and so on will be easily solved by the power of technology. Most of the solutions seem to depend on Genetics, Nanotechnology, Robotics (GNR) supported by Artificial Intelligence. With nano computers, nanobots, nanotubes, foglets and other inventions, complemented by `the power of ideas' (according to the author, there is an idea to solve any problem if you think hard enough) every hurdle seems to be easily surmountable. The only doubt he seems to have is in our ability in the future to get around the restrictions imposed by the speed of light, which would hinder our speed of expansion in the universe. He is however quick to reassure us with conjectures based on wormholes and quantum mechanics that can help humanity get around the problem. And one does not need to worry about what we will do after we take over the Universe - the possibility of multiple universes and creation of new universes can still keep us busy. By building up the concept of singularity, Kurzweil is also forced to prove that other civilizations with higher levels of intelligence than us does not exist (if they existed they would have crossed the point of singularity and expanded across the universe) throwing the work of organizations like SETI out of the door. If he is correct, it does put humanity at the center of our universe leading to some profound implications about the role and responsibility of our civilization. Despite Kurzweil's seemingly far-fetched predictions of the future, this book is an absorbing read. The Singularity is Near draws you in by the excitement it creates through highlighting the wondrous developments that could be made possible by the revolution in genetics and nanotechnology.

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Examkrackers 1001 McAt Biology Questions (Examkrackers)

Examkrackers 1001 McAt Biology Questions (Examkrackers)

• Review:: 'Worth every penny! You will improve everytime you solve problems on this book. Very solid contents with passages that are really going to help you on the MCAT. Although I think they are harder than the real MCAT problems (some questions are vague) you will learn alot by doing it rather than reading it.
• Review:: 'Great MCAT Bio review If you have the time to go through 1001 questions, then this is the book you're looking for to prepare for the MCAT Bio section. What I liked about it is that it contains both passages-based and discrete questions. In fact, I'd recommend all the 1001 Examkrackers books.
• Review:: 'A great find This book is by far the best in terms of MCAT biology prep. Other companies overwhelm readers with facts and irrelevant information, while Examkrackers gives you what you need to know, and provides you with "1001 questions" in MCAT passage-style form to ensure that you know more than just the science: you also know how to take the MCAT. There are a few errors in the book, but to be honest, they are small and obvious; there is no confusion about correct answers etc. Such is the reasoning for my awarding 4 instead of 5 stars.
• Review:: 'Numerous Errors - Needs Editor I don't know whether the material presented is factually wrong as alleged by a previous reviewer. However, I did all of the questions in this book and found NUMEROUS errors in the answer key. I would say that at least 5% of time, the answer key did not match the information provided in the detailed answer key. I am not aware of any other MCAT question based study guide specifically for biology so I went ahead the finished this book.
• Review:: 'Extensive coverage... but full of errors. I bought this book looking for a good passage-based practice for the biology section of the MCAT. From my experience with the book 101 passages in Verbal Reasoning, I was impressed with Examkracker's accurate represenation of real MCAT questions. However, I soon found numerous errors in the questions used in this book, and I confirmed that they were wrong with several physiology and biology professors. From that point, I gave up on the book, because it caused more harm than good.

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