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posted September 15, 2011 12:20 PM            

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anyone else here familiar with this man? we just watched a documentary about him and his theory of singularity... quite fascinating but i have to say that i think he's a little off his nut... but that's not the reason for this post...
he too believes in physical immortality but with a twist - a rather big twist... he believes that in the not so distant future ( another 30 or so years if i recall correctly ) we will be able to effectively replace all of our working parts with technological counterparts... that's a vastly simplified version of his theory...
he has also "created" a diet to maintain his physical form as healthy as can be until such a time as the singularity occurs... at the time of the documentary he was ingesting approximately 200 ( not a typo, 200 ) pills a day to supplement his diet... 200 each and every day... ( kinda trumps your mere 15 Randall )

thoughts?

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posted September 16, 2011 01:56 PM            

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William Shatner talked about him at DragonCon. Personally, I'd rather keep my own body parts.

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posted September 17, 2011 12:26 PM            

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Shatner said he won't be able to last another thirty years.

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posted September 19, 2011 11:14 AM            

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Shatner was in the documentary momentarily... he's a funny man

i agree with you Randall about keeping one's own parts... Kurzweil seems to focus too much on the biology/science of human life and doesn't seem to take into account our soul - in the film he states quite clearly that his primary motivation for pushing this is to bring back his dead father... hhmmm

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