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James Harvey

James Harvey’s Singularity Podcast: We are Singularia

This is my first singularity podcast. I intend to do many more interviews like that so that we can spark the discussion about the singularity with the help of some of the best and brightest people that I can get to do a podcast for the benefit of us all. My guest today is Australian [...]

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Singularia (Part 3): What Was It We Were Thinking Of…

by James Harvey

Oh yes, will technology transcend biology … and our mostly metaphysical reply: Technology, while a big and important cultural driver, has always been only a part of the fundamental shifts that humans have increasingly manifested over time and which may be expected to culminate in the coming Singularity event. From a Metaphysical point of view [...]

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Singularia (Part 2): Who Am Us Anyway?

by James Harvey

Who Am Us Anyway? Who do we really think we are? One answer has been: Tool Maker. At a certain level of evolution we are a modern species of ambitious monkey that imagines, crafts and uses tools. Always have been. A recent find in Germany has uncovered a cache of very large, finely crafted and [...]

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Singularia: a “Both/And” Point of View of the Singularity (Part 1)

by James Harvey

Here, at the Singularity Weblog, Socrates asks: “Will technology replace biology?” An obviously rhetorical question, with an apparent answer, depending upon which side of the debate you may find yourself. But yet this presents a valid point for enquiry given the extraordinary predictions being made by Ray Kurzweil (and other transhumanists) for an approaching Technological [...]

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