Are You Excited About That Future?

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I have five patents on where you can hold hands even if you're separated. So the touch, the sense, it's all just senses. It's all just irreferencing. There's a whole way of doing it and it's very subtle but ultimately we can emulate all of that. Are you excited by that future? Do you worry about that future? I have certain worries about the future but not that virtual touch. Well, I agree with you. You describe six stages in the evolution of information processing in the universe as you started to describe. Can you maybe talk through some of those stages from the physics and chemistry to DNA and brains and then to the very beautiful end of

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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:06) – Turing test
(20:52) – Brain–computer interfaces
(32:32) – Singularity
(38:51) – Virtual reality
(41:31) – Evolution of information processing
(47:57) – Automation
(57:58) – Nanotechnology
(59:52) – Nuclear war
(1:01:57) – Uploading minds
(1:09:39) – How to think
(1:16:09) – Digital afterlife
(1:25:29) – Intelligent alien life
(1:28:19) – Simulation hypothesis
(1:32:31) – Mortality
(1:40:11) – Meaning of life