<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 11, 2010 Stathis Papaioannou wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">One day it may not be an abstract philosophical problem but a<br>serious practical problem</span></blockquote><br></div><div>Truer words have never been spoken. I think my chance of surviving the meat grinder called "The Singularity" is very low, almost zero. But the chance of someone surviving The Singularity who has not overcome the soul superstition is exactly zero, regardless of what euphemism they prefer for the word soul.</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark</div><br></body></html>