Synthetic Super Intelligence and the Transmutation of Humankind

Chapter 13: Genetic Laboratories—Atlantis Revisited
life energy and thinking capabilities; the SBC does all that for you. Ask
yourself, where did the fires go once every cell in the body is replaced with
nanobots? As the expression goes, “they went out the window,” or to put it
in Kurzweil’s words (my emphasis),
…By that time, we're approaching the Singularity, with the real revolution
being the predominance of nonbiological intelligence. 361
A human being is a biological computer, which can house a soul
(billions of small fires). The life expectancy of this bio-computer cannot
exceed 120 years, according to science. By then, the vital body parts have
begun to malfunction, and the body dies. By exchanging body parts, science
can extend life considerably, and with time, the person’s body “goes back in
time” to when it was let’s say twenty-five years old. If body parts will only
be cloned when they are old or sick, it will take a few hundred years—
perhaps—before the entire body is replaced, and in the meantime, the person
will be classified as a cyborg. When the entire process is completed, we
don’t have a cyborg anymore, but a complete artificial body, built up by
nanobots instead of biological cells. The justification for exchanging cells
with nanobots will be that nanobots don’t deteriorate—cells do! People will
start finding this to be acceptable, logical and rational. Once the entire
transformation of cells is done, we have a being that is totally taken over by
AI, and there is nothing left of the original soul fragment that is still
conscious. The soul/mind/body will still be there, but asleep for an eternity.
Because people are unaware of what a soul/mind/body is, they cannot perceive the
long-term danger with AI and the Singularity!
The AI Prophets will protest and say that you will feel more vital
when your body parts are replaced, not less. This is true, but what is it that
makes you feel vital; is it the rejuvenation of body parts, or is it the energy
being pumped into the nanobots, giving the soul an increase of energy,
added remotely with technology? They will do anything to keep the illusion
alive until the Singularity is a fact.
Another question is; will the Overlords actually wait until people’s
last organs fail in order to be replaced, or will the day come when people are
told that it’s easier to replace all organs at once and become young again
altogether rather than wait for each organ to be exchanged? Again, the latter
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P. 180, op. cit.
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