Humans Will Evolve Beyond Ourselves Via Technology? At Least the Idea Offers Some Comic Relief

Once in a while, when the world is too much with me and I need a little entertainment, I turn to transhumanism -- the idea that humans will evolve beyond ourselves thanks to computers. The would-be immoralist crowd's latest craze concerns whether "superintelligent" computers -- those supposedly able to "think" independently -- mightbe the object of religious conversionary efforts.

From "When SuperintelligentAI Arrives, Will Religions Try to Convert It?", by Zoltan Istvan, who is running for...