His hopes for technology are nearly limitless—and, to others I would imagine, terrifying—and he wants to live to experience as yet unimagined technologically mediated states of being far more expansive than those allowed by the limited wet meat in our skulls. The human brain was shaped haphazardly by the ruthless (and goal-less) filter of natural selection and the limits of metabolism, but imagine what states of awareness and subjectivity could be achieved with a synthetic brain limited only by the ambition and imagination of its super-intelligent creators. With so much at stake, it’s not
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