so what happens if i don’t live forever? (also how i became an athiest [extremely abridged])

aaron moritz, July 11th 2010

When I was in 7th grade my religion teacher told the class that it was ok to be gay, but that having gay sex was a sin. Tell any 12 year old kid he can’t have sex (well, the kind he wants to have) and you lose ‘em. And Catholicism lost me. But that didn’t mean there was no God, not for sure anyway. I was content, for many years, to think that the church just gets some things wrong, that of course, an ever loving God would never send me to hell for sucking a dick (especially when he’s the one who made me want to do it…)

So I embraced my agnosticism, which by the time I graduated, had turned more into a quasi-spiritual pick and choose belief system when I got into mysticism and spirit guides and healing (note: not heavily into , I was just… browsing), and now my stance is basically… wait and see. But my intuition is that there is no afterlife.

The more ‘atheist’ I became, the more I began to feel free. There was no God watching and judging everything I do. I am the ultimate judge of myself. I am the only person with that power, truly. I once mentioned I was an atheist to a casual acquaintance and he said “…must be lonely sometimes.” I never looked at it that way. The only thing atheism has given me is less guilt, and a feeling of purpose.

I’ve been digging into Transhumanism for a while now, and I’ve become fairly persuaded by the evidence that we are developing technologies that will radically extend our lives (possibly until the end of the universe[or the beginning of the next one]). But lot’s of people like to say that this is nothing more than technologists wishful thinking, their own scientific version of religion, creating heaven on earth, rapture of the nerds some people have called it. And until I see the actual technologies working, on humans, I can’t have 100% confidence that they aren’t wrong. So what happens if I do die?

Well, I was an atheist (well, let’s say… 96% atheist. There’s always a chance the theists are right) before I stumbled upon transhumanism and my stance on death hasn’t changed much. If death is inevitable, then all that means is that this life is more precious. There is no garuntee, or even reason to think, that there is anything after this life. So make each moment count. And don’t worry about dying, because if you do die, you’ll either be starting on some great adventure, or you’ll be nothing, like before you were born.

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Top Ten Reasons Global Revolution WILL Happen

aaron moritz, July 4th 2010

10. Peak Oil:

Everything plastic or rubber is made of oil. Oil fuels our transport, our trade, our economy. Our entire civilization is based on the use of fossil fuels for both energy and materials.

There are ways to fix these problems, but since we’re barely even attempting to implement them, the problems associate with depleting oil are escalating.

9. Bio Engineering:

We’re learning so much about how our bodies function at such a fast rate, that the applications seem almost science fiction, like the recently developed ‘bionic eye’ for blind people, a small camera either implanted into the eye socket or word on glasses that wirelessly sends a signal to an implant behind your ear, which interfaces with your brain to produce an image (see video here). If we can replace an eye, why not a heart? Or a brain (after transferring the data, of course)?

We are experimenting with being able to switch genes on and off. We are learning to literally grow tissues, or even entire organs in a lab, and implant them. We are learning to reverse the biological processes of aging. We are on the brink of attaining an unprecedented amount of control over our biology and the biology of our descendants. This raises many questions that are unique to our times and deserve a lot of discussion.

8. The Emerging Global Police State:

International Bankers, largely based in and in control of the United States and the other central UN nations are quietly imposing new laws that restrict people’s freedoms ad create an environment of fear, which leads to submission. But people will only accept so much, sometimes all too many of their freedoms to be taken away before being pushed to the brink, but there always is a brink. And the confused, power-hungry, fear mongers are always pushing the limits.

The illusion of freedom and democracy that has enshrouded the western world is dissipating due to many of the other factors listed here.

7. Technological Unemployment:

It started when tractors replaced farm workers. Then the people who built the tractors were replaced by automated factories. So everyone moved to the service industry, but now we have ATM’s and automated restaurants and waiters and vending machines.

The fact, is that in any industry, the more we automate the work (ie; assign it to machines rather than humans), the more efficiently the work is done. Machines are stealing our jobs (and they’re better at them, too)!!!! That’s why we can’t keep people employed. There isn’t enough work for them to do, and since they can’t work, they can’t spend, so companies has to cut costs, fire more people, further diminish the purchasing power of the individual. You see the diminishing returns here. This type of loop cannot be sustained.

We’ve ignored this (shifted people to new industries) for almost 80 years, and it’s finally starting to catch up to us (there really isn’t much work left for us to do).

6. Between 10% and 20% of the World’s Population is Starving:

and the global wealth gap is widening, which will only increase this number. As Citibank stated in their leaked internal memo, while they have successfully achieved the accumulation of power through monetary means, government, unfortunately still remains a one person one vote power structure. This clearly shows the mindset of the super-wealthy, who could easily afford to feed everyone on the planet, but choose, instead, due to their conditioning, to allow people to starve, tacitly allowing millions of deaths every day.

I wonder how far they think they can push it, before people start to say enough is enough. I know I’m already saying it. And so are a lot of other people.

5. AI:

Many parts of the brain have been modeled. Neural networks have been simulated. We don’t yet have all the processing power and neural models available to ‘build a brain’, but the pieces are falling together, if you pay attention to the news in that area. Ray Kurzweil projects we will have human level machine intelligence by 2029.

If a robot has the ability to react, discuss, argue that it is conscious and can feel, who would we be to say that it doesn’t? What if it has had the memories of a loved one transferred into it? The philosophical and intellectual debate this poses over what it means to be ‘alive’ or ‘conscious’ has the ability to fundamentally alter our perspectives on what it means to be a human. If that’s not revolutionary I don’t know what is.

4. Environmental Crisis:

Whether global warming is man made or not, we need to take care of our planet and our environment holistically. Failure to do this will inevitably result in environmental catastrophe. When this happens, something big is going to need to change.

3. The Flopping Global Economy:

The world-wide debt balloon is bursting. There are signs of it everywhere, world leaders are meeting to discuss it, and coming up with no real answers, just empty targets that won’t be met, and wouldn’t help even if they were met. A market economy is based on growth, but we only have one planet. It and the amount of resources on it are not growing, so we can’t keep using them at an accelerated rate.

The fact is that we live in a global Ponzi scheme, an upsidedown pyramid that is about to tip one way or the other. We need an ‘economic’ system that is based on the holistic management of the entire earth, it’s life, and it’s resources.

2. Nanotechnology:

Nanotechnology brings the promise of being able to manipulate matter at the level of molecules. In Eric Drexler’s Engine’s of Creation, a seminal book on Nanotech, he describes nano-scale assemblers that would have the ability to arrange matter in any way (ie; make apple pie from thin air, simply by re arranging the molecules). How is the economy going to work when everyone can have any material possessions they want at only the cost of raw materials?

Nanotechnology also carries with it the promise of being able to upgrade our human bodies. More efficient neurons, better red blood cells, better internal defense systems for healing cuts and bruises.

Nanotechnology takes it’s cue from our own molecular machinery (cells and the like), yet allows us to manipulate and improve upon it. It will likely also function as a catalyst for both AI, and is intermingled with Bio Engineering, in my opinion.

1. The Internet, ie: The Freedom and Spread of Information:

Hey guess what everyone? The United States and every member of it’s empire and most of the rest of the world is living in a Police State (see #8). We are not free, not in action, not in the choice of our governments or money masters.

But we all know that. We haven’t all been tricked, and we’re telling each other about what’s happening. We’re working right in front of their faces to remove them from power. Until about ten years ago, they were very effective at controlling public opinion. We all thought what the TV told us to, we all thought what was on TV was real. Now we know it’s just reality television, a drama played out for our amusement and distraction.

How do we know? Because we’re making our own videos, we’re learning how to think from each other, rather than from a single source, and that is unfortunate for anyone who wants things to stay the same. The printing press caused a revolution due to it’s ability to spread information. The internet does this on a scale many orders of magnitude larger, so should we expect that the resulting revolution will also be on a scale many orders of magnitutde larger?

Any one of these things has the potential to start a monumental revolution, either of the mind, or of our external environment. The fact that they are all happening at the same time is why I feel confident in saying that something big is coming.

What should we do about it? Well, if you ask me, I like the direction of the Zeitgeist Movement. To me it seems like the most reasonable option we have left.

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I went for a walk.

aaron moritz, June 23rd 2010

Yesterday, after the third time I started the hour and a half uploading process for my latest video, which you can see here, I decided to go for a walk. I still didn’t get it to upload properly in HD, but I was so angry by the third time I had to do this (export the video with new settings, upload, etc) that I had to do something.

I walked about a block or two, in no particular direction trying to pick a song. I wanted to find something to tell me everything was going to be ok. And so I hit shuffle and Time To Pretend by MGMT came on and I had to laugh, though despitte the ironic title it was exactly the song I wanted to listen to.

I made my way around down some streets I’ve never walked on and I saw this in the pavement:

and I stopped, smiled, took a picture. My iPod was playing A Perfect Circle now. I took a few more steps and saw this:

and for a minute I wondered if I had come across them in the wrong order, but decided it worked either way. Then I thought about how I wished there was some way I could show these pictures, and this site, to whoever did this. Prove to them someone noticed. I’m sure they’d like that.

I turned a corner and immediately saw this:

and was really taken with the beauty created by the contrast between the clear glass and the trees green trees. This beautiful infusion of nature and human ingenuity. I swear to God half a block down I see this on someone’s lawn:

I don’t know why someone tied a bow around some little plant, but it was the icing on the cake. I was in a better mood now. I walked back around a little more and headed home. I snapped two more pictures:


The first one I just liked because I know whoever did it was just having some fun. And in my eyes, they made the sewer drain look better. More fun. I just liked the flag because it was torn, and all sad and shriveled looking. I’m not a big fan of what flags represent.

So I got back home and had forty minutes left on my youtube upload. After it was done, it still didn’t work properly, so I gave up, as we all should after trying three times. I can always do it later.

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the answer to 1984 is not 1776

aaron moritz, June 8th 2010

I saw this slogan on Alex Jones’ Facebook page a couple days ago and it’s just been sitting strangely with me ever since.

I’ve never understood the mentality of wanting to resurrect the past, because we as a species are constantly learning. Think of how many things that are possible now that weren’t possible in 1776. Shouldn’t we look towards the future instead of the past?

There is a lot of amazing insight in the US Constitution, and 1776 was a great triumph of freedom over all kinds of unruly controls, but maybe a small part of the reason that the US, Canada, the world, is in this position is because we all rely on these immutable documents, like constitutions, which then become enforced by laws. My point being that one immutable document is NEVER going to be able to lay down the rulebook of a perfect society. By saying we should go back to 1776 is to say that we should go back to what got us into this mess in the first place.

A lot has changed since 1776, when they said “All men are created equal” they meant all white males. We now understand that statement should read “All human people are to have equal rights and freedoms”, or something similar, since even the language “are created” assumes a religious pretense that may not be all inclusive. And if you take the non-religious meaning of creation we know we weren’t all created equally [doggy, missionary,etc]. sorry.). We’ve updated our understandings, and that’s why a constitution, any constitution, will eventually create a failed state.

Here in Canada, until 1913 (which interestingly, but maybe only coincidentally, coincides with the establishment of the US’s Federal Reserve bank) the Federal Government had the authority and the responsibility, to control and issue our money. They were given an unlimited supply of debt-free money with which to operate the country, thus eliminating the need for direct federal income tax. All they had to do was print it. And that’s what they did it for the first 46 years of our country. But, in 1913, our parliament passed an amendment to the Bank Act, without referendum, giving to the banking system the sole right to create money. And they charge interest. Since then our national debt has grown from being 463 million dollars to over 1 trillion dollars in 2009. In this case, our constitutional rights were subverted by underhanded legislation, but that happens all the time, in every country that operates a monetary based democracy the democratic principals will always be undermined by greed. That’s another understanding of ours that has been updated since 1776.

So I’m just asking people to keep in mind that if things get bad enough that there is some sort of armed revolution, like the one of 1776, (and I sincerely hope they don’t, but if they do get that bad… ) an answer isn’t going to be found in old constitutions and old documents. Dogmatic doctrines like constitutions and religious commandments never stand the test of time, this is why society after society fails, because they all think they have the answer. There is no one ANSWER, there is only a constant stream of possibilities from which we can pluck only some, but an ever growing amount, of answers.

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is it really spiritual if it doesn’t do anything?

aaron moritz, June 6th 2010

“I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm,
to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow,
to feel inspired,
to fathom the power,
to witness the beauty,
to bathe in the fountain,
to swing on a spiral,
to swing on a spiral,
to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human.”
-Tool (Lateralus)

Is meditation spiritual? Is it more spiritual than giving a gift to someone you love? Or better yet, someone you don’t even know, or will never know you. Is a monk sitting around in a mosk somewhere helping anybody in any tangible way? They aren’t feeding anyone, they aren’t even exchanging ideas with anyone… they’re achieving inner peace, that’s great for them, but it has no function for society. It helps no one.

I believe true spirituality has a function. I believe true spirituality has a greater purpose in improving the spirits of others. And if our spirit is really nothing more than our psyche, our mental state at a time, then functional spirituality has to do with improving the mental conditions of others, which is directly related to their poverty levels (ie: let’s get our shit together and feed our starving brothers and sisters in Africa), among other things of course.

The notion that our ‘spirit’ somehow exists separately from our mind I’ve come to see as one of the greatest follies of our species evolution of thought. The greatest moments are always those of complete union between body and mind, working together. Your mind responding to all sensory (bodily) input, awareness, those almost transcendant times when I feel whole, complete, unseparated. The complete inegration of body and mind, as one whole being, as it was meant to be.

“Over thinking, over analyzing,
separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, leaving opportunities behind.”

Maybe this is why people have such a history of feeling dispotic and lonely. We’re yearning for this spirit, this nothingness that only leaves you continuing to search, when what we could be doing is forming connections with other people, exchanging ideas, one of the ultimate acts of functional spirituality. Perhaps once we stop searching for the spirit, we can embrace the physical, the reality, the present.

The only true physical reality is the present. The past and future only exist as thoughts in our minds. History and possibilities. The present is the only physical reality. When my mind becomes lost in the past or future, I ignore the present and end up DOING NOTHING… being invisible. Achieving nothing. Serving no spiritual purpose.

In my subjective experience, feeling more present in your body (not feeling like a separate entity that exists somewhere outside or inside of yourself) and more present in the physical world overall creates a more healthy perspective and a more healthy method of thought and of interaction with others.

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Imprisonment pt.2: Bigger Cages / Longer Chains

aaron moritz, May 12th 2010

Jobs, Schools, Media, National Borders, what other names can we think of for prisons?

Relevent links:

http://thezeitgeistmovement.com

http://thevenusproject.com

http://www.youtube.com/user/Tzmsocial… –great resource for Venus Project technical info!!
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheLeftLi… -Big inspiration for both this video and my last, maybe even to the point of a bit of word-borrowing. Hope you don’t mind, friend.
http://www.youtube.com/user/cveitch – Again, huge inspiration in my life over the last few months, and in both my videos. Thanks Charlie (and Danny!!! I miss you.).

Music:
1. Couer de Pirate – Comme Les Enfants
2. The Wire (Closing Credits)
3. eDit – Ashtray
4. Nine Inch Nails – A Warm Place

Video made with Adobe Premiere and After Effects (you can see me trying out some animation stuff of my own on here). Again, youtube and google image were my two major sources of video.

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There is nothing new except what has been forgotten

aaron moritz, May 4th 2010

Max Bemis, the singer/lyricist of Say Anything is lyrical genius. If you don’t know who Say Anything is, they make fun, sometimes silly, pop-punk music. But their work is immensly creative and beautiful, which I think helps to show that most anyone can do creative things. And I’m not saying:  ’even Say Anything, the shittiest band ever, is creative, genius even, so everyone must be,’ I’m just using Max as an example because his music really speaks to me. I get his sense of humor and I identify with his tone and topics.

Look at these lyrics:
“Life is not a spark in space, an episode of Will & Grace, controversial yet mundane, Debra’s Messing with your brain.”

It’s an observation about life (as compared to an episode of Will and Grace [which is controversial, yet mundane]), and then to take Debra Messing’s (the actress who plays Grace) name and using ‘messing’ literally, that takes creative thinking. Not to mention you can bring it back to the life observation, ans talk about how ‘mundane’  TV is messing with our brains. My interpretation anyway.

But that’s a lot of thought and meaning to squeeze into one line, especially one that on the surface seems so silly.

I’m not here to dissect Say Anythings lyrics, and I’m not here to say there’s anything special about that band, because there isn’t. What I’m saying is that we tend to dismiss each others creativity for various ego reasons. We encourage each other to ‘critique’ everything an artist does. Rather than respect the fact that they are doing anything creative at all, we learn to pick things apart, find anything we don’t like and use it as an  excuse to dismiss a band or a book or movie.

You can say you don’t like something, but to say it’s not ‘good’. What the fuck does ‘good’ even mean? It’s subjective.

Not everything is for everyone and that is what’s great about all this media saturation online we’re experiencing. To me, Charlie from the Love Police is a celebrity, but his videos generally only get around 10,000 to 50,000 views (sometimes up to 100,000), and thats tiny by television standards. But who cares? His creativity is touching people and that’s all that matters.

And what is creativity? Am I creative? Maybe not, lot’s of times I can’t even think of my own post titles. I use song lyrics.  ”They let us play with markers, but I keep trying to draw infinity” is another Say Anything line. “But if I wait for a Holiday, could it stop my fear?” is a Vampire Weekend line.

That whole post I did from the Edmonton airport last month was stylistically a complete rip off of the Love Police.

I wear my influences on my sleeve. I take words that other people have said and use them the way I want to use them. We’re never actually making something new, we’re just building on the backs of hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution.

Carl Sagan: ‘if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe.’

I guess what I’m saying is that all creative enterprise has merit. Don’t shit on music or movies you don’t like, just accept that some things are for you and some aren’t. Arguing over whether something is ‘good’ basically amounts to verbal masturbation.

…….. to end some quotes i found searching for the title of this post:

Abraham Maslow:
The key question isn’t “What fosters creativity?” But it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

Beatrix Potter:
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Michael Vance:
Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way.

“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.”
- Marie Antionette

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I Refuse To Be Terrified

aaron moritz, April 19th 2010

I’m talking now to the advertisers, the corporate CEO’s, and government officials… because I know how hard you guys are trying to make us scared.

I’m talking to police officers, security enforcers, and anyone who feels entitled to hold authority over another person, because I know that you’re confused.

I’m talking to every working person who worries that without their submission to a corrupt government and labour system, their survival is at stake, because they aren’t wrong.

I’m talking to every person who feels restless, bored, or unhappy. People like to tell you that it’s your fault, that the problem lays with you. It doesn’t.

I’m talking to all who know something disgusting is going on, but don’t believe it will ever change. You’re wrong.

I’m talking to everyone who, very justifiably, fears for the future of our planet. Every day we are told how it, and we, might be destroyed, either through environmental disaster, or the dropping of nuclear weapons. They don’t talk about solutions, they don’t offer hope. I hope that I do.

Today I overheard a young woman telling a co-worker that she sometimes wakes up crying. She doesn’t know why, but she can’t help it. She recently emigrated here, she has a husband and two kids, and she didn’t understand how, with such a seemingly perfect life, she still spends mornings crying in the shower, before pulling herself together to send her kids off to school, and heading off to work.

It wasn’t my conversation to join, but I wanted to tell her that I understand. That her pain is justified, but that she has a choice, just as we all do, between fear and love.

And I refuse to be terrified.

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believe nothing and understand as much as possible

aaron moritz, April 17th 2010

I think I’m gonna make that my motto, or a mantra or something.

Step 1:
-Don’t believe what’s in the papers.
-Don’t believe what’s on TV.
-Don’t believe what’s on the internet.
-Don’t believe activists.
-Don’t believe special interest groups.
-Don’t believe scientists.
-Don’t believe priests.
-Don’t believe your friends.
-Don’t believe me.
-Don’t even believe your own senses.

None of these things are reliable sources of truth. There is no way to know the truth about anything for sure, ever. So instead of wasting time, being critical and choosing what to believe and what not to believe, believe nothing, but understand as much as you can.

Understand what’s in the news, and understand who writes the news and why. Understand what your friends say, and try to understand where they might have gotten that information from. Understand that activists usually have very good intentions, and are often saying something important, but understand their passion, and their tendency to do anything, including lie, for their causes. Same goes for priests and politicians. Understand that scientists are people too, and while they are embarking on the great search for truth on behalf of all mankind, they are not infallible, and are often wrong.

Understand that our senses and our memories can play tricks on us, and understand that other people are just like you in almost every single way except for the circumstances that have led up to their current behaviour.

Or maybe you understand none of these things, you have your own understandings. That’s good. That’s amazing.

But without beliefs, how do we decide how to act? If I don’t believe that killing someone is wrong, why don’t I just go out and have a blast slaughtering as many people as I can? Because I value human life. I’ve cultivated that value based on the understanding that I am a human life, and I understand and see and feel the beauty of other human lives. I see myself in them, and to do them harm is to harm myself, is to harm everyone.

And I also understand that the less harm there is going around, the better off we’ll all be.

Understandings are only approximations. They are ever-changing and evolving. New facts and new information can sometimes turn your understandings over on their head. If you are wrong about something, and you get corrected, you don’t have to feel stupid or ignorant for ‘believing’ something that was wrong, instead you can rejoice at your new knowledge and updated understandings. Understandings have no emotional attachment.

Saying that we understand something is likely true, rather than saying we ‘believe’ it, places us into a new paradigm whereas the false dichotomy of ‘true’ and ‘not true’ is not recognized. Because the real essence of what I’m promoting of the removal of absolutist thinking. This is the end of black and white, the end of good and evil. Such ideas are useful for making points, but they don’t have any real-life substance. Not a single person or a single thing or idea is all good or compeltely bad, it’s all shades of grey.

So when presented with an idea, the question is not ‘is this idea true?’, it’s ‘how much information do we have to support this idea?’ The more information we have the more confident we can be that an idea is true. Truth then becomes a never-quite-attainable, quite imaginary, abstraction. It’s like infinity. You can keep counting but you’ll never reach infinity.

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telescoping evolution

aaron moritz, April 15th 2010

Keeping in the same vein as my last couple posts about accelerating technology, here’s a clip from an excellent movie called ‘waking life’, where accelerating change is talked about not only as a technological phenomenon, but an all-pervasive one.

It took billions of years for life to turn from single-celled to multi-celled organisms, some millions of years for mammals to evolve, some hundreds of thousands of years for humans, 10 000 years for agriculture (the end of nomadic hunter-gatherers and the establishment of cities), a few hundred years for science to get started, a hundred years for the industrial revolution, four or five decades for the computer revolution.

The next revolutions will be biotechnology (us messing with out own genetics, cloning, etc), and nanotechnology, which has so many incredible possible applications that I can’t even pick a couple to list.

And these revolutions will take maybe a decade or two. They are happening now.

In the video he talks about ‘neo-humans’. This is what I was talking about in my last post when I said we’d merge with machines, become information in the cloud, choosing our bodies at will using swarms of nano-bots. That’s not what HE says, but he definitely talks about man merging with machine, and something else that I love:

SELF-DIRECTED EVOLUTION. Evolution traditionally happens through natural selection. Survival of the fittest. Once we have the ability to control and transcend our biology, we can evolve in whatever ways we want. PERSONALLY, not together as a species, but as we, as individuals see fit. Self-directed evolution. That’s a term I’m definitely gonna yank and use as much as possible.

I want this all to happen. I think it’s exciting. I know lots of people don’t want it to happen. They think it’s scary. But if we want it or not is irrelevant regarding whether it will actually happen. It may, it may not, but people, lot’s of very very smart people are working on it. Right now. And they’re constantly getting closer. It’s in the news every fucking day if you’re up on the right blogs and websites. http://www.kurzweilai.net/ is a good one to start.

If it does happen, we’re all going to have to find a way to deal with it. Or you could kill yourself, I guess, but I don’t recommend anyone kill themselves. I actually value ALL human life, not just my friends and family and people who are from my country or my church. I don’t value the ‘life’ of a non-thinking embryo over the hundreds of thousands of dead soldiers we waste fighting wars, you fucking religious whackjobs (Ok, sorry, cheap shot, I say this all in fun and only in love, feel free to call me whatever kind of whackjob you want… just look at the crazy neo-technocratic bullshit I post on here) (oh and for a big long speal about my views on abortion, which go a little further than just ‘pro-choice’, click here).

So anyway, if we’re creating a universal compu-biological consciousness, it’s pretty safe to say that God doesn’t exist. Yet. But we’re on our way to inventing one.

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