Technological Posthumanism's Eschatological Discourse.doc (original) (raw)

I have just re-loaded this paper, because originally a word was misspelled in the title. Written for a conference in Taiwan a decade ago, this paper was inspired by Ray Kurzweil's book, "The Singularity is Near." As AI continues its exponential growth, we have to reckon with enormous disruptions in human institutions in the next two or three decades. Our species, which has been through a lot, is not prepared for what it is coming, although Kurzweil and others envision it as a cosmic evolutionary process leading to the self-realization of God, in a way reminiscent of Hegel!