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The problem of the modern world is not information poverty, but information overload

Pictorial activity no longer seeks to represent the world and its objects, when paradoxically, it ceases to be the painting of the *visible*. What, then, can it paint? It paints the *invisible*, or what Kandinsky calls the ‘*Internal*’.

*Voir l’invisible sur Kandinsky*

In order to understand works of art, the cultivated person already used the main classical aesthetic theories, those of Plato and Aristotle, and more recently, those of Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer and even Heidegger.

“In the early 2040s, nanobots will be able to go into a living person’s brain and make a copy of all the data that forms the memories and personality of the original person: *You 2*. Such an entity would be able to pass a person-specific Turing test and convince someone who knew the individual that it really is that person.

“But now a harder question: Is this *You 2* really you? Keep in mind that “*You*” (as a normal physical person) also still exist. It could even be that this copy was ”

*The Singularity Is Nearer*
Ray Kurzweil

“There’s something fundamental about consciousness that is impossible to share with others. When we label certain frequencies of light “green” or “red,” we have no way of telling whether my qualia—my experience of green and red—are the same as yours. Maybe I experience green the same way that you experience red, and vice versa”


*The Singularity Is Nearer*
Ray Kurzweil

“Since this technology will let us merge with the *superintelligence* we are creating, we will be essentially *remaking ourselves*. Freed from the enclosure of our skulls, and processing on a substrate millions of times faster than biological tissue, our minds will be empowered to grow *exponentially*, ultimately expanding our intelligence millions-fold. This is the core of my definition of the *Singularity*”

In 1950, the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912–1954) published an article in Mind titled “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.”In it, Turing asked one of the most profound questions in the history of science: “*Can machines think*?” While the idea of thinking machines dates back at least as far as the bronze automaton Talos in Greek myth.