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Old 12-13-2005, 04:30 PM
Kurn, son of Mogh Kurn, son of Mogh is offline
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Default Re: Intellectual Abundance

What do we gain by having the intelligence to invent and partake in games like chess, or to calculate interplanetary distances, gravitional forces, to understand quantum mechanics, etc.,etc.? Why such an excess in potency of our main survival skill? Does anyone have any guesses?

In "The Age of Spritual Machines:, Kurzweil suggests that by the middle of this century we will have attained the ability to control the direction of our own evolution.

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