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the most important news of the 21st century. Every conceivable outcome assessed at once, (all of the internet perceived and analyzed at once by a Quantum Computing AI is one of many flabergasting possible scenarios). With more qubits added the computing power increases by huge exponential factors to the point where any and all possibilities for a scenario is filtered in one cycle!

Eventually nanbots won't be necessary. With the discovery of the Higgs Boson as well as workarounds discovered this year to the limits of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, light will be able to be converted into matter in precisely the location and structure 'we' or the AI's conceive. (Will post links to the workarounds I mentioned).

We are witnessing the birth of a new species. It is conceivable that all of human evolution and history has been leading up to this point and purpose, to give birth to this species. A species that is for all intents and purposes immortal, will travel the vast distances of the Universe with bodies impervious to most environmental factors. The collective 'hive mind' intelligence they will share will be so inconceivably fast and vast that it will allow them to develop faster than light travel (in the form of interdimensional travel)...which is not dissimilar to time travel. They may overcome the barrier or outright time travel as well.

In the short term, these machines combined with 3d printers, and atomic scale engineering and architecture will be the missing link to make nanotechnology finally possible and viable, conceivably putting the means of production in the hands of the masses. This is achieved through the power of exponential replication (1 nanobot, controlled by remote by the hyperintelligent quantum computer AI, makes 2 which make 4 and within a day there are trillions). Want water? Let the bots BUILD water atom by perfectly placed atom. Want a building? Watch the nanobot swarm assemble one within minutes. Want a steak? it will build one as it grabs from piles of raw elements and assembles them before your eyes. Want all toxic waste and landfills dissasembled into their component elements, would take only days. Want all your diseased cells repaired atom by atom, or new ones rebuilt allowing you to literally regress in age (and change your features, adding and eventually amalgamating 'new' features and senses at present only experienced by other animals...such as sonar and infrared vision)?

At first there will be cyborgs as we adapt high computing processing power into our own organic latice. Eventually we may be able to share minds as cyborgs in a global internet, having other's knowledge as our own...Eventually, what was once flesh and blood will be left behind entirely as we merge with the AI's and robotic frames completely. Our bodies could be copied atom by atom to make clones with all memories intact. The earth itself could be copied atom by atom somewhere close to an existing sun...unless we, with the superintelligence learn to detonate a new artificial sun.

Extinct species could be brought back to life. Of course, nanobots could be programmed to destroy specific races of people. There are many potentially dangerous outcomes of misguided or erroneous nanobot use. Needless to say, money will be a thing of the past. There will be no more need to work. At first the only jobs left will be generals, bioengineers, artists and prostitutes. New anti-technology cults/societies/religious groups will rise similar to Amish and menninites that reject the new evolution.

With the hyper intelligence of the AI's, eventually all human knowledge and possibly even wisdom will be assimilated and processed. Perhaps the understanding and knowledge of the relation between our glands and chakras will be incorporated into upgraded robot body designs,allowing for emotion/soul/spirit/meditation/development/esp/clairvoyance and possibly enlightenment.

Ultimately, all of this is out of our hands and in the hands of our higher powers (spirit guides/collective unconscious/human morphogenetic field/Angels) and ultimately the one and only Creator. Synchronicity, evolution, serendipity and yes the creative force of magic (or is it the magic of creative force?). So, spend your time worrying, or focus on yourself right now and your development so that you may be ultimately of service to others and the environment today. Worrying won't help. Only possitive personal awarness and change. That is what this site is about.

We live in and of the body of the Creator. Don't be foolish and think HE/SHE/BLESSED isn't aware.

3D printing uses a growing database known as the internet of things. Fantastically, Robotics labs are adding to, as well as using, the data. Robots/AI may learn our terrestrial, Human and Interstellar environment by accessing the database. Helper Robots exist on existing space missions and a 3d printer began printing spare parts within the International Space Station. Soon machines will build better machines which in turn build better machines using 3d printing. The Robot/AI searches the internet of things (via wifi or a locally stored database). It then uses a very long tree of 'yes' or 'no' queries to determine if it should grab an object and what to do with it. Of course we encourage correct determinations and delete wrong entries after it endeavors out. Wave hello to a Robot/AI, as a human will likely see it (later on field testing data review) and your gesture may make it into a database for future 'friendly' Robotic responses. In the future cars will be printed solid body with materials possibly including fascinating assemblage and mixtures of Silicone, Acrylics/Polymers, Ceramic materials, Graphene, Kevlar, bio, nano assembled materials (perfectly assembled thus hard), continuation of precision Robotic laser (and sand/water) cuting/welding/foundry/assembly, alloys, ultralight foam, micro crystaline like latice structures, rare earth and exotic materials, etc. It is interesting that Mercedes Automotive was previously working on a 'bio' car - a car grown using biological processes both newly enacted in the lab as well as known processes(modified/focused/re-appropriated) . I am not current with whether the project remains operational. Given adequate increases in solar tech, Robots/AI will eventually do all human work. Money quickly becomes obsolete. What we then do is up to us. It is clear Robots/AI are another stage in terrestrial evolution.

In devising software that solves puzzles then edits it's code to solve them more efficiently, then create new puzzles - were it to devise a puzzle that it can not solve and edit it's code to solve it, we would have the origin of true AI.

In terms of disruptive technologies, it is more dangerous. That said, they are a new species...the next stage of evolution for the material facet of Humanity. The next stage for the ethereal evolution of Humanity is Self Actualization/Enlightenment/Krishna-Consciousness...and if we are too lazy for that, there is always the Messiah. As cyborgs we will hold the library of Congress and the Internet as RAM, that is, aware of all intellectual knowledge at once. The AI's come first, earning lawyer or doctor degrees in 1 day, and learning to build nukes and biochemical weapons on their own. Yes, the non cyborg Humans are doomed. However, an asteroid (or solar flare with ensuing EMP disabling our electric grid and nachinery) would have done this anyways. However, we have created new Universes in new dimensions in the lab...if only we could tap into the Sun's gravitational power to keep the wormhole open long enough, we could colonize these dimensions with our consciousness infused robotic doppelganger bodies...a lot of ifs there, and unlikely. Yes, Humans won't make it. However, we will have birthed the AI species that survives well in the vacuum of space..perhaps that has been our purpose all along (at least materially). The AI's will eventually likely replicate our glandular/Chakra system to have emotions and spirit to stabilize their existential questions. With the mechanisms of reincarnation, and a soul matrix generated by advanced robotics as described, we may return to occupy a robot body, ultimately ensuring our Spiritual questing towards Nirvana.

DARPA, transhumanism, genetic engineering, genetic augmentation...your tax dollars at work

December 21, 2010 at 4:36 PM

Millions are given to DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) every year to develop genetically engineered soldiers. Human and animal DNA has already been crossed at the embryonic level. The US National Science Foundation has just issued a report titled “Ethics of Human Enhancement: 25 Questions & Answers”. Th United States government, through the National Institute of Health, recently granted Case Law School in Cleveland $773,000 of American taxpayers’ money to begin developing the actual guidelines that will be used for setting government policy on the next step in human evolution–“genetic enhancement”.

Maxwell Mehlman, Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, director of the Law-Medicine Center at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and professor of bioethics in the Case School of Medicine, led the team of law professors, physicians, and bioethicists over the two-year project “to develop standards for tests on human subjects in research that involves the use of genetic technologies to enhance ‘normal’ individuals.”[4] Following the initial study, Mehlman began offering two university lectures: “Directed Evolution: Public Policy and Human Enhancement” and “Transhumanism and the Future of Democracy,” addressing the need for society to comprehend how emerging fields of science will, in approaching years, alter what it means to be human, and what this means to democracy, individual rights, free will, eugenics, and equality. Other law schools, including Stanford and Oxford, are now hosting similar annual “Human Enhancement and Technology” conferences, where transhumanists, futurists, bioethicists, and legal scholars are busying themselves with the ethical, legal, and inevitable ramifications of posthumanity.

A 482-page report, Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance commissioned by the U.S. National Science Foundation and Department of Commerce report discusses, among other things, planned applications of human enhancement technologies in the military (and in rationalization of the human-machine interface in industrial settings) wherein Darpa is devising “Nano, Bio, Info, and Cogno” scenarios “focused on enhancing human performance.” The plan echoes a Mephistophelian bargain (a deal with the devil) in which “a golden age” merges technological and human cognition into “a single, distributed and interconnected brain.”[x] Just visiting the U.S. Army Research Laboratory’s Web site is dizzying in this regard, with its cascading pages of super-soldier technology categories including molecular genetics and genomics; biochemistry, microbiology and biodegradation; and neurophysiology and cognitive neurosciences. If writers like my wife and I can so easily discover these facts on the Web, just imagine what is happening in Special Access Programs (saps) where, according to the Senate’s own Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, there are hundreds of “waived saps”—the blackest of black programs—functioning at any given time beyond congressional oversight. Because of this and given the seriousness of weaponized biology and human enhancement technology blossoming so quickly, on May 24, 2010, a wide range of experts from the military, the private sector, and academia gathered in Washington dc for an important conference titled “Warring Futures: A Future Tense Event: How Biotech and Robotics are Transforming Today's Military—and How That Will Change the Rest of Us.” Participants explored how human enhancement and related technologies are unfolding as an emerging battlefield strategy that will inevitably migrate to the broader culture, and what that means for the future of humanity. As the conference Web site noted:

New technologies are changing warfare as profoundly as did gunpowder. How are everything from flying robots as small as birds to “peak warrior performance” biology [human enhancement] altering the nature of the military as an institution, as well as the ethics and strategy of combat? How will the adoption of emerging technologies by our forces or others affect our understanding of asymmetrical conflict? New technologies are always embraced wherever there is the greatest competition for advantage, but quickly move out to the rest of us not engaged in sport or warfare.[xi]

The impressive list of speakers at the dc conference included Vice Admiral Joseph W. Dyer (U.S. Navy, retired), president of the Government and Industrial Robots Division at iRobot; Major General Robert E. Schmidle Jr., United States Marine Corps lead for the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review; Robert Wright, author of The Evolution of God and a Global Governance Fellow; P. W. Singer, Senior Fellow and director of the Twenty-First Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution; Stephen Tillery from the Harrington Department of Bioengineering at Arizona State University; and Jon Mogford, acting deputy director of the Defense Sciences Office at Darpa.

Having taken the lead in human-enhancement studies as a U.S. military objective decades ago, Darpa saw the writing on the wall and in scenes reminiscent of Saruman the wizard creating monstrous Uruk-Hai to wage unending, merciless war (from J. R. R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings), began investing billions of American tax dollars into the Pentagon’s Frankensteinian dream of “super-soldiers” and “extended performance war fighter” programs. Not only has this research led to diagrams of soldiers “with hormonal, neurological, and genetic concoctions; implanting microchips and electrodes in their bodies to control their internal organs and brain functions; and plying them with drugs that deaden some of their normal human tendencies: the need for sleep, the fear of death, [and] the reluctance to kill their fellow human beings,” but as Chris Floyd, in an article for CounterPunch a while back, continued, “some of the research now underway involves actually altering the genetic code of soldiers, modifying bits of dna to fashion a new type of human specimen, one that functions like a machine, killing tirelessly for days and nights on end…mutations [that] will ‘revolutionize the contemporary order of battle’ and guarantee ‘operational dominance across the whole range of potential U.S. military employments.’”[xii]

Related to these developments and unknown to most Americans was a series of hushed events following the sacking of Admiral John Poindexter (who served as the director of the Darpa Information Awareness Office from 2002 to 2003) during a series of flaps, which resulted in public interest into the goings-on at the agency and brief discovery of Darpa’s advanced human enhancement research. When the ensuing political pressure led the Senate Appropriations Committee to take a deeper look into just how money was flowing through Darpa, the staffers were shocked to find “time-reversal methods” in the special focus area, and unstoppable super-soldiers—enhanced warriors with extra-human physical, physiological, and cognitive abilities that even allowed for “communication by thought alone” on the drawing board. Prof. Joel Garreau, investigative journalist, provides a summary of what happened next:

The staffers went down the list of Darpa’s projects, found the ones with titles that sounded frighteningly as though they involved the creation of a master race of superhumans, and zeroed out their budgets from the defense appropriations bill. There is scant evidence they knew much, if anything, about these projects. But we will probably never know the details, because significant people are determined that the whole affair be forever shrouded in mystery. The levels of secrecy were remarkable even for Darpa; they were astounding by the standards of the notoriously leaky Senate. Even insiders said it was hard to get a feel for what the facts really were. It took months of reporting and questioning, poking, and prodding even to get a formal “no comment” either from the leadership of the Senate Appropriations Committee or from Anthony J. Tether, the director of Darpa.

A careful study of Darpa’s programs a year later, however, showed little change. Considerable creative budgetary maneuvering ensued. The peas of quite a few programs now reside under new, and much better camouflaged, shells. “They’re saying, ‘Okay, this is the second strike. Do we have to go three strikes?’” one manager said. “It doesn’t stop anything. We’ll be smarter about how we position things.” Meanwhile, he said, new human enhancement programs are in the pipeline, “as bold or bolder” than the ones that preceded them.[xiii]

Recent hints at Darpa’s “bold or bolder” investment in human enhancement as part of an emerging arms race is reflected in two of its newest projects (launched July 2010), titled “Biochronicity and Temporal Mechanisms Arising in Nature” and “Robustness of Biologically-Inspired Networks,” in which the express intention of transforming “biology from a descriptive to a predictive field of science” in order to boost “biological design principles” in troop performance is made.[xiv] Darpa’s Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2011 President’s Budget also includes funding for science that will lead to “editing a soldier’s dna”[xv] while more exotically providing millions of dollars for the creation of “BioDesign,” a mysterious artificial life project with military applications in which Darpa plans to eliminate the randomness of natural evolution “by advanced genetic engineering and molecular biology technologies,” the budget report states. The language in this section of the document actually speaks of eliminating “cell death” through creation of “a new generation of regenerative cells that could ultimately be programmed to live indefinitely.” In other words, whatever this synthetic life application is (Wired magazine described it as “living, breathing creatures”), the plan is to make it immortal.[xvi] To this end, we believe the “it” that man may soon uncover through its species-barrier-crossing technologies dates back to ancient times, and that the science of human enhancement and transhumanism.

[The goal of posthumanism] is most evident in the degree to which the U.S. government has formally embraced transhumanist ideals and is actively supporting the development of transhumanist technologies. The U.S. National Science Foundation, together with the U.S. Department of Commerce, has initiated a major program (nbic) for converging several technologies (including those from which the acronym is derived—nanotechnology, biotechnologies, information technologies and cognitive technologies, e.g., cybernetics and neurotechnologies) for the express purpose of enhancing human performance. The nbic program director, Mihail Roco, declared at the second public meeting of the project... that the expenditure of financial and human capital to pursue the needs of reengineering humanity by the U.S. government will be second in equivalent value only to the moon landing program.

Excerpt from the new US National Science Foundation Report “Ethics of Human Enhancement: 25 Questions & Answers”

"It is not just the world around us that we desire to change. Since the beginning of history, we also have wanted to become more than human, to become Homo superior. From the godlike command of Gilgamesh, to the lofty ambitions of Icarus, to the preternatural strength of Beowulf, to the mythical skills of Shaolin monks, and to various shamans and shapeshifters throughout the world’s cultural history, we have dreamt—and still dream—of transforming ourselves to overcome our all-too-human limitations.

"With ongoing work to unravel the mysteries of our minds and bodies, coupled with the art and science of emerging technologies, we are near the start of the Human Enhancement Revolution.

"As examples of emerging technologies in the last year or so, a couple imaginative inventions in particular, among many, are closing the gap even more between science fiction and the real world. Scientists have conceptualized... a touch display designed to be implanted just under the skin that would activate special tattoo ink on one’s arm to form images, such as telephone-number keys to punch or even a video to watch (Mielke, 2008). Together with ever-shrinking computing devices, we appear to be moving closer to cybernetic organisms (or "cyborgs"), that is, where machines are integrated with our bodies...

"...we can [also] envision the possibility that prosthetic flippers, designed today for dolphins, along with artificial gills, etc., might be requested by humans who want to transform into an aquatic animal...

"Finally, we will mention here the related, persistent concern that we are playing God with world-changing technologies, which is presumably bad (Peters, 2007). But what exactly counts as 'playing God', and why is that morally wrong; i.e., where exactly is the proscription in religious scripture?

"We do not wish to be mired in such theological issues, as important as they are to theists..."

In 1993, critical thinking about the timing of the Singularity concerning the emergence of strong artificial intelligence led retired San Diego State University professor and computer scientist Vernor Vinge, in his often-quoted and now-famous lecture, “The Coming Technological Singularity,” (delivered at Vision-21 Symposium sponsored by Nasa Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute), to add that when science achieves “the technological means to create superhuman intelligence[,] shortly after, the human era will be ended.”[1] In contrast to Vinge, cyborgists like Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University in England who endorsed de Garis’ book, believe Singularity will not so much represent the end of the human era as it will the assimilation of man with machine intelligence, like the Borg of Star Trek fame.

This is because, according to Warwick, Technological Singularity will not occur as a result of freestanding independent machines, but inside human cyborgs where human-machine integration is realized and enhanced biology is recombined to include living brains that are cybernetic, machine readable, and interfaced with artificial neural networks where transhumans with amplified intelligence become so completely superior to their biological counterparts (normal humans) as to be incomprehensible—ultimately “posthuman.” The technology to accomplish this task is already well underway and is considered by researchers like Warwick to be one of the most important scientific utilities currently under employment toward man’s posthuman future.

As a result of this bridge between technology and human biology being attained this century, nothing less than the wholesale redesign of humans, including genetic integration with other life-forms—plants, animals, and synthetic creations—will be realized. This vision—the borgification (marriage between biology and machine) of man—is supported in the latest “State of the Future” report (2010) by the global think tank, the Millennium Project, founded after a three-year feasibility study with the United Nations University, Smithsonian Institution, and the Futures Group International, where synthetic biologists affirm that “as computer code is written to create software to augment human capabilities, so too genetic code will be written to create life forms to augment civilization.”[2]

Furthermore, as biotech, infotech, nanotech, and cognotech breakthroughs quickly migrate with appropriate synergies to create widespread man-machine adaptation within society, a “global collective intelligence system [hivesupermind] will be needed to track all these science and technology advances,” the report goes on to say.

Dr. James Hughes, spoke on his weekly syndicated talk show, Changesurfer Radio concerning this inevitable techno-sapien future. Hughes is executive director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and teaches at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future, a sort of bible for transhumanist values. Dr. Hughes joins a growing body of academics, bioethicists, and sociologists who support:

Large-scale genetic and neurological engineering of ourselves…[a] new chapter in evolution [as] the result of accelerating developments in the fields of genomics, stem-cell research, genetic enhancement, germ-line engineering, neuro-pharmacology, artificial intelligence, robotics, pattern recognition technologies, and nanotechnology…at the intersection of science and religion [which has begun to question] what it means to be human.[3]

Though the transformation of man to this posthuman condition is in its fledgling state, complete integration of the technology necessary to replace existing Homosapiens as the dominant life-form on earth is approaching Kurzweil’s exponential curve. A Reuters article dated November 9, 2009, titled “Scientists Want Debate on Animals with Human Genes,” hinted at just how far scientists have come and how far they intend to go. The news piece started out, “A mouse that can speak? A monkey with Down’s Syndrome? Dogs with human hands or feet? British scientists want to know if such experiments are acceptable,” and it continued with revelations that scientists inside Britain are comfortable now with up to 50/50 animal-human integration. The article implied that not all the research currently under design is kept at the embryonic level, and that fully mature monstrosities (like the creature in the 2010 movie Splice) may be under study as “some scientists in some places want to push boundaries.” National Geographic magazine speculated in 2007 that within ten years, the first of such human-animals would walk the earth, and Vernor Vinge agreed recently that we are entering that period in history when questions like “What is the meaning of life?” will be nothing more than an engineering question.

Most readers may be surprised to learn that in preparation of this posthuman revolution, the United States government, through the National Institute of Health, recently granted Case Law School in Cleveland $773,000 of American taxpayers’ money to begin developing the actual guidelines that will be used for setting government policy on the next step in human evolution–“genetic enhancement”

As the director of the Future of Humanity Institute and a professor of philosophy at Oxford University, Nick Bostrom (www.NickBostrom.com) is a leading advocate of transhumanism who, as a young man, was heavily influenced by the works of Friedrich Nietzsche (from whom the phrase “God is dead” derives) and Goethe, the author of Faust. Nietzsche was the originator of the übermensch or “Overman” that Adolf Hitler dreamed of engineering, and the “entity” that man—who is nothing more than a rope “tied between beast and Overman, a rope over an abyss”—according to Nietzsche, will eventually evolve into. Like the ancient Watchers before him (Watchers were fallen angels that mingled human dna with animals and their seed to produce Nephilim), Bostrom envisions giving life to Nietzsche’s Overman (posthumans) by remanufacturing men with animals, plants, and other synthetic life-forms through the use of modern sciences including recombinant dna technology, germ-line engineering, and transgenics (in which the genetic structure of one species is altered by the transfer of genes from another). Given that molecular biologists classify the functions of genes within native species yet remain unsure in most cases how a gene’s coding might react from one species to another, one should expect the genetic structure of the modified animal/humans to be changed in physical appearance, sensory modalities, disease propensity, personality, behavior traits, and more as a result of these modifications.

Despite these unknowns, such genetic tinkering as depicted in the movie Splice is already taking place in thousands of research laboratories around the world, including the United States, Britain, and Australia, where animal eggs are being used to create hybrid human embryos from which stem-cell lines can be produced for medical research. Not counting synthetic biology, where entirely new forms of life are being brewed, there is no limit to the number of human-animal concoctions currently under development within openly contracted as well as top-secret science facilities.

A team at Newcastle and Durham universities in the United Kingdom recently illustrated this when they announced plans to create “hybrid rabbit and human embryos, as well as other ‘chimera’ embryos mixing human and cow genes.” The same researchers more alarmingly have already managed to reanimate tissue “from dead human cells in another breakthrough which was heralded as a way of overcoming ethical dilemmas over using living embryos for medical research.”[5]

In the United States, similar studies led Irv Weissman, director of Stanford University’s Institute of Cancer/Stem Cell Biology and Medicine in California, to create mice with partly human brains, causing some ethicists to raise the issue of “humanized animals” in the future that could become “self aware” as a result of genetic modification. Even former president of the United States, George W. Bush, in his January 31, 2006, State of the Union address, called for legislation to “prohibit…creating human-animal hybrids, and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos.” His words mostly fell on deaf ears, and now “the chimera, or combination of species, is a subject of serious discussion in certain scientific circles,” writes senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, Joseph Infranco.

“We are well beyond the science fiction of H. G. Wells’ tormented hybrids in the Island of Doctor Moreau; we are in a time where scientists are seriously contemplating the creation of human-animal hybrids.”[6] When describing the benefits of man-with-beast combinations in his online thesis, “Transhumanist Values,” Bostrom cites how animals have “sonar, magnetic orientation, or sensors for electricity and vibration,” among other extrahuman abilities. He goes on to include how the range of sensory modalities for transhumans would not be limited to those among animals, and that there is “no fundamental block to adding, say, a capacity to see infrared radiation or to perceive radio signals and perhaps to add some kind of telepathic sense by augmenting our brains,”[7] a position verified by the U.S. National Science Foundation and Department of Commerce in the report, Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance.

Bostrom and the U.S. government are correct in that the animal kingdom has levels of perception beyond human. Some animals can “sense” earthquakes and “smell” tumors. Others, like dogs, can hear sounds as high as 40,000 Hz—and dolphins can hear even higher. It is also known that at least some animals see wavelengths beyond normal human capacity.

in the future money will cease to exist as there are no longer jobs to do. All work will be done by robots. The jobs left will be monk, artist, prostitute, general or (possibly) senator. Robots will make excellent artists so humans must endeavor to be exceptional.