Kurzweil’s apparent sincerity in his belief that “The Singularity” and dramatic life extension technologies will occur “really soon now!” are driven by one thing and one thing alone, that I think he makes extremely and painfully obvious: The man is stunningly afraid of the idea of his own physical mortality. He eats something like 100 vitamins a day, all to live just a wee bit longer so he’ll be around when it becomes possible to upload his mind and achieve immortality. He’s freaking obsessed, and living in serious fear.
On one hand I feel bad for the guy, genuinely pity him.
On the other hand, considering I intuitively lean toward belief in the idea that mind and consciousness is actually more fundamental than matter, and does continue to exist after our material/biological bodies fall apart, I just go, eh, it’s his little trip he’s living in during this particular trip into the ol’ Simulation System, and he’ll eventually realize that obsessing over physical death was kind of pointless…
