Quake3World

Posted: **Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:32 pm**

At the same time, however, we don't hear discussion about the role of intelligence in the future. According to common wisdom, intelligence is irrelevant to cosmological thinking. It is just a bit of froth dancing in and out of the crevices of the universe, and has no effect on our ultimate cosmological destiny. That's not my view. The universe has been set up exquisitely enough to have intelligence. There are intelligent entities like ourselves that can contemplate the universe and develop models about it, which is interesting. Intelligence is, in fact, a powerful force and we can see that its power is going to grow not linearly but exponentially, and will ultimately be powerful enough to change the destiny of the universe.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.ht ... t0534.html

Posted: **Wed Feb 14, 2007 7:04 pm**

I can't help but think I've read this article before, I'll forgo reading (or rereading it) in full until this evening.

Posted: **Wed Feb 14, 2007 7:23 pm**

It's from 2002, so you probably have.

It's mostly Kurzweil's usual stuff, but I just found that passage a nice summary of quite a lot of different materials I've read, and quite philosophically interesting.

I'm reading this at the moment:

http://www.amazon.com/Anthropic-Cosmolo ... 0192821474

It's more or less the hardcore background of Kurzweils more popularized writings.