Why the Singularity isn't going to happen Options

[Hey Hey]

http://io9.com/5661534/why-the-singularity...going-to-happen

[old6598]

In reference to the Instant Singularity thread that has been closed:

This is the final paragraph that could give that thread at least some validity...

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Back on topic. We are still living within the "era" of science, within an era where a kind of faith ( religious ? ) in our ability to find ( and/or invent ? ) patterns and control reality by understanding and manipulating those patterns is operating. But my take on it is that this is not really true, reality, the universe has no patterns.

The laws of physics work well and we use them, but in the end they are only valid within the limited range of an item of matter, a delimitation of matter - energy organized in that very quirky, one time, extremely specific combination of elements under the form of the human, his mind - body - sense organs - and capability of interaction with reality thorough his muscles.

Change that item of matter, that particular interaction of one piece of matter with another piece of matter, and the laws of physics no longer really exist.

So if I let a virtual mind live in a man-made virtual reality in a computer with an arbitrary set of laws, and that mind lives there and experiences reality just as deeply as us, even more deeply (who knows how deep ? ), and is never aware that it is all fake, wouldn't that mind (or set of minds so as to create a society - city, etc. like humans) believe in fixed patterns, in laws of physics, in a form of faith in reality in its essence of being somehow absolute ? But it isn't, it is made up, and so is ours, and in fact any reality, no matter how many levels of virtual realities, and dreams within dreams are present, is essentially made up, a hoax, a lie.

We try to find patterns to everything, but this program is destined to fail because there are no ultimate causes to events, there are no reasons for things occurring, there are general patterns, but as soon as an event depends on another person's free will, all bets are off. And just like free will kills all possible determinism, so does quantum fluctuations, random occurrences, etc. Just like sudden death kills a person, or a sudden accident changes everything in a person's life.

The truth is, in the end, even the grand program of science is destined to fail, just like religion: just look at how funny all of the economists and sociologists look after 200 years of trying to understand or predict the economy or people's behavior.

History is the real laws of physics, pure random quirks based on nothing at all, not atoms, or electrons or quantum mechanics.


So change the neural circuits of brains and minds, wildly and insanely, it is all just as true as any truth can possibly be, all lies are true, the bigger the lie - invention the truer it is. All contradictions are welcome, in fact only contradictions are welcome. It is forbidden to apply any logic at all.