Ray Kurzweil Quotes About Evolution

Quotes about: Evolution

• The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Stories, Levels, Evolution

  Ray Kurzweil (2012). “How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed”, p.1948, Penguin

• The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution. however, it is precisely in the world of matter and energy that we encounter transcendence, a principal connotation of what people refer to as spirituality.

  Ray Kurzweil

  People, Energy, Next Steps

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.498, Penguin

• Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Mirrors, Self, Machines

• Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world. Evolution works through indirection: each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Believe, Our World, Order

• By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have become what we think of as machines today, but rather machines will have progressed to be like humans and beyond. Technology will be the metaphorical opposable thumb that enables our next step in evolution.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Technology, Thinking, Next Steps

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.69, Penguin

• Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Dust, Next, Evolution

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