Post edited 10:02 am - April 10, 2011 by Socrates

Ok took a bit of time to re-watch the clips. So besides the fact he strayed so far from his original analogy that actually caught my attention there is still one very distinct division between those who have faith and belief in a religion and those who follow the singularity movement. Religious believes have an irrational faith that cannot be dissuaded through fact (though in all fairness there are no facts, only interpretations). The singularity movement, at least through my perception, is based on a rational metric, there is a goal, end point, that can be empirically measured, recreated through controlled experiments, based on fact. Now we do not know how the technologies will evolve but the pursuit of this knowledge is done through a scientific measurement, at this point we have only a collective hypothesis that we are working towards testing.