I think it stems from our understanding of ourselves that we are not the crowning glory of creation, as we had always thought. Why, in your view, does that thought make us so uneasy?įirst of all, it’s not us, it’s them, and that is already enough to cause uneasiness. You speak, for example, about a future in which we will be replaced by superbeings and cyborgs possessing physical, cognitive and emotional capabilities that are different from ours. I think that within a very short time I am speaking in terms of decades technology will change our world to such a degree that we have no way to imagine or talk about what will happen after the change. I don’t know whether it will be in our lifetime or in another generation or two, but not much past that. It is clear to me personally that it’s close at hand. First of all, how do you define “singularity”?įrom my viewpoint, singularity is the point at which our world of meaning collapses. That’s the subject of the last chapter in the book, which is very disturbing. There is no guarantee it will not be even more problematic. Even though it will be replaced by something planned by homo sapiens. And, given homo sapiens’ record in the world, I’m not sure that’s a bad thing. The more likely scenario is extinction by means of upgrading, by creating something that upgrades us to something different from what we are. And you think that, in this way, we are actually dooming ourselves to extinction.
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