[desejados] [extropy-chat] Kurzweil reviewed in Weekend Australian newspaper

[Diego Caleiro]

> The
> information sciences have sparked the mystic belief that everything is made
> of ethereal data and that consciousness or identity can be separated from
> the complex electro-biochemical dynamics of the brain. This is a curious
> technological rewriting of the notion of the individual soul, transcendent
> from embodiment. It may be a reassuring story but there's no evidence to
> support it.



Absolutely true, I would even say, painfully true. 


The rest is not much interesting. 

Diego Caleiro.