Transcendent Man

Yesterday I watched the documentary film of the above title, about the life and works of Ray Kurzweil.

Now I am on the next sentence, stuck in the same loop as Ray. Or that's how I see it.

He is right on some level. There will be some kind of event-horizon in technological development that will shortly (within decades) end the nature of human experience as we know it now. Is that a good or bad thing?  Who says what is good or bad?

He uses the term technological singularity, which I'm confused about. Maybe I've not yet understood exactly what he means. There is no mathematical or physical explanation, which I imagine would be fairly easy to apply, so I hope to find it soon and will post when I do.

I am trying to analyse it to death, as if by endless analysis there will be an answer and truth can therefore be avoided. Death can therefore be avoided. I think this is the belief that drives Ray. But I'm not sure what he means by becoming immortal. Does his notion of immortality merge with the spiritual notion? I somehow doubt it.

Areas I want to clarify are: the thermodynamic arrow of time and how this relates to his vision; chaos theory and the notion of life as a perpetual phase transition; and quantum physics and Schrödinger's cat etc.

Is this struggle that of wanting to become God vs surrendering to God? Do the two merge with thermodynamic equilibrium of the mind?

Does God exist? "Not yet?" he answers. I think this summarises his dillusion as well as the missing facets I mention above that I want to clarify. I'm confused, and yet he seems to be clear. Is this because I don't yet understand, or that I do understand but don't yet understand why he doesn't. Does that need to be part of understanding something? No. It's only part of understanding everything.

So God doesn't exist "yet", he says. Very interesting idea. Time is something I think of as illusory, a movement that occurs when my consciousness fails to merge with God and I become "I" during the journey. The journey could be seconds or years, but always the merge with God recurs, and for everyone it occurs at least once in their trajectory of life - at death.

Or does it? Just as a ball thrown hard enough could leave the influence of gravity on earth (ignoring air resistance), so can the soul thrown forward in time hard enough escape its creator and be left in eternal damnation, a perpetual searching forward in time. This is perhaps the same debate as whether or not the universe will suffer a heat death or collapse back into itself. Maybe what happens is our choice and there are parallel universes where both happen - some enter heaven (singularity), others hell (the heat death)

For some, God never departs them and therefore the question of is there a God is irrelevant. A good number of people, and most animals fit this category. How does the notion of God vary with time dimension? We may see a lion trapping and devouring a wilderbeast, whereas a time-reversed view sees a lion giving birth to a fully grown animal through its mouth, and that animal merging with its mother upon death etc until the singularity of the big bang (ok bit of a large jump but you get the drift, if not you're ok)

Ok this is all haphard and obscure, but it's the way it is. A sketch, and scribble, and way of getting stuff out of my mind. So thankyou for reading. Feel free to comment, and any references much appreciated to help in my search for the unknowable.

God bless you.