Advances in tech most exciting to me in the area of “Social”; more so than in prospects for “approximating the brain/mind”

The “exponential growth” of computer technology is most immanently apparent to me in the area of communications rather than the focus of Zurzweil in “The Singularity is Near”.  We simply do not yet have the “subject” (in Kurzweil it is the brain/mind)  figure out; sufficiently “mapped out”,  or even yet have much of any confidence in how the brain does Continue Reading

The question of Software in the Singularity

I saw a video interviuew with Noam Chomsky where they broached the subject of “The Singularity”,  to which Chomsky reacts somewhat dismissively as “science fiction”.  Which is true.  It IS indeed still in the category of fiction.  And Chomsky’s main concern here is that there are more pressing problems we need to solve now than some theoretical time when we Continue Reading