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Pray to the Omega Point [SIGINT12]
Pray to the Omega Point Religious ideas and techno-futurism. The Rapture for nerds, Teilhard de Chardin #39;s "Noosphere" and Frank Tipler #39;s "Omega Point Theory". A look at the resonance between certain religious and techno-futuristic concepts, with a strong focus on Teilhard de Chardin as a favorite of cyber-utopians and a sort of proto-Singularitarian, and on Frank Tipler #39;s Omega Point Theory which sees God and Heaven as the result of the universe developing into one huge super computer. Many techno-futuristic ideas of recent decades and years look a bit (or a lot) like religious concepts: the often postulated emergence of a global internet consciousness may sound rather esoteric; immortality by "mind upload" seems to recreate the promise of the soul #39;s immortality; the prophecies of rapid world-shattering technological disruption labeled "Singularitarianism" (as promoted by authors such as Ray Kurzweil) have been called "the Rapture for nerds". To technophiles who consider their visions to be grounded in materialistic science, modernity and rationality, this may a bit of an embarassment. Do such similarities uncover deep roots of irrationality, wishful or teleological thinking? Do they disqualify every concept they hit? Or might they actually elavate comparable religious ideas from "mystical nonsense" to "valid metaphor for what might be possible"? In this talk, I want to at least scratch on the surface of such questions; with a short overview of the (alleged or real ...From:CCCenViews:204 1ratingsTime:54:50More inEducation

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