Immortality?

April 8th, 2023| Topic: RaMbLeS | 2

This guy is a smart dude: Ray Kurzweil, 75. Computer scientist, writer, inventor, and futurist. He’s done pioneering work on speech recognition, optical character recognition, electronic musical instruments, artificial intelligence, etc. Winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the United States’ highest honor in technology. Member of the National Academy of Engineering. Inductee into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Twenty-one honorary doctorates. The fellow has made all kinds of predictions about the future and 86 percent of his 147 predictions they say, have (thus far) been fulfilled.

In 1990, he predicted the world’s best chess player would lose to a computer by 2000, and it happened in 1997 when Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov. Kurzweil said in 1999 that by 2023 a $1,000 laptop would have a human brain’s computing power and storage capacity.

When he speaks, one listens. Well, he’s spoken again.

He was talking the other day with the YouTube channel Adagio, to discuss the booming growth in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics. He opined that technology is set to become so powerful it will soon help humans live forever, in what is known as “singularity”—a hypothetical point when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and changes the path of our evolution. He also thinks artificial intelligence will pass the “Turing Test” in 2029, a test of whether a machine can think like a human. And he believes that implanting computers in our brains will improve us.

We’re going to get more neocortex, we’re going to be funnier, we’re going to be better at music. We’re going to be sexier. We’re really going to exemplify all the things that we value in humans to a greater degree.”

And this: we’re gonna get age-reversing nanobots. Tiny robots, nanomachines inserted into the human body that can repair damaged cells and tissues that deteriorate as the body ages, thus rendering us immune to diseases like cancer (like those “nanites” in Star Trek). And he thinks that will happen by 2030. In just 7 years! Curing all diseases. And living forever.

Well, he’s right. We can live forever. But it has nothing to do with nanobots. If sin is the cause of death, then the reversal of sin leads to immortality with God.

Jesus, who paid the price of the sins of humankind, by dying on the cross and rising again, said:

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”
John 3:16

If one has placed one’s trust in Jesus Christ as one’s only God and Savior from sin, at that instant of faith, that person has received eternal life and become a child of God. What a gift!

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Ephesians 2:8–9

But according to our man, Kurzweil:

Does God exist? I would say, ‘Not yet.’”

I’ll go with Jesus, who said:

“I am the resurrection and the life …
and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die.”
John 11:25

Yes, our material parts will die, but our immaterial parts will live forever, to be united to a new (and eternal) body one day when Christ comes for us.

We know that when He appears, we will be like Him,
because we will see Him just as He is.
1 John 3:2

What a day that will be! All because … he is risen, indeed!

SOURCE: Daily Mail