Romona has a posse

My fairly recent relocation has helped with the goal of being exposed to great minds. At the Archive, its common to discover an MIT educated, computer science, buddy of our founder wandering the halls. It's an inspiring intellectual atmosphere.

The progression seems to have gone, hearing or reading about the big minds, seeing their lectures and appearances, to working around them. Still another layer to peel before working directly with those included in the inner circle of expanding consciousness. Ray Kurzweil is one of the biggest of those minds.

This month's Wired magazine has an eight page piece about the futurist and inventor. If immortality can be achieved through concentrated brilliance and theoretical mathematics, Kurzweil will be the one to do it. Even the LGBTQ community can love a man that wants to transcend gender through the recompiling his conscience in a synthetic lifeform named Ramona.

While the concept of expanding consciousness through technology might seem strange to some, it is considered inevitable by many artificial intelligence experts, including Dr. Bruce Runnegar, UCLA professor and former director of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute (NAI); Digital Space Corporation CEO and researcher, Bruce Damer; and Eliezer Yudkowsky, foremost researcher in Friendly AI at the Singularity Insitute.

read Wired article