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67 - When Science Meets Spirituality (Ft. Alan Lightman)

Why This Universe?

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The Consciousness Hierarchy of Computers

The most optimistic view I can take of all this stuff is the possibility that we could maybe end up being replaced by a system of intelligences as more capable of having transcendent wonderful experiences, but cranked up to 11. That would be wonderful if that comes to pass. I would seed humanity to that if if that were really an option. And one thought that that raises is that the the violence that human beings do to each other, which probably has lots of causes,. I mean, survival is one of them, but probably a lot of other causes.

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