The Profound Aspect Of Technology Is That

The Ethical Debates Are Like Stones In A Stream. The Water Runs Around Them. You Haven't Seen Any Biological Technologies Held Up For One Week By Any Of These Debates.

My View Is That Consciousness, The Seat Of "personalness," Is The Ultimate Reality, And Is Also Scientifically Impenetrable. In Other Words, There Is No Scientific Test One Can Postulate That Would Definitively Prove Its Existence In Another Entity. We Assume That Other Biological Human Persons, At Least Those Who Are At Least Acting Conscious, Are Indeed Conscious. But This Too Is An Assumption, And This Shared Human Consensus Breaks Down When We Go Beyond Human Experience (e.g., The Debate On Animal Consciousness, And By Extension Animal Rights).

In 1999, I Said That In About A Decade We Would See Technologies Such As Self-driving Cars And Mobile Phones That Could Answer Your Questions, And People Criticized These Predictions As Unrealistic.

As We Gradually Learn To Harness The Optimal Computing Capacity Of Matter, Our Intelligence Will Spread Through The Universe At (or Exceeding) The Speed Of Light, Eventually Leading To A Sublime, Universe Wide Awakening.

So What Used To Fit In A Building Now Fits In Your Pocket, What Fits In Your Pocket Now Will Fit Inside A Blood Cell In 25 Years.