Ken Wilber - Interpreting the Singularity

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Comment by Jaguar on February 25, 2008 at 10:58am

This is self-affirming, self-referential, self-promoting propaganda. Ken and friends...and "followers" go to heaven. W

Comment by ned on February 17, 2008 at 5:12pm

Interesting video. I think this is a really important topic.

At the very least we can be sure that if humanity doesn't develop a common vision and sense of purpose, all this technology can very easily be used to destroy us as an aspirational presence in this cosmic cycle.

Sri Aurobindo is interesting here -- my understanding is that he suggests that technology will eventually disappear into humanity, and humanity into Divinity. Intuitively this makes a lot of sense to me as technology is becoming more and more ubiquitous and smaller and smaller (and more able to be easily integrated into the human body and our environment). So certainly technology has the potential to help us in our quest for transcending the human condition -- but not without that overarching sense of purpose.