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This, then, was the religion that I was raised with: veneration for human creativity and the power of ideas.

— Ray Kurzweil The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005)

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The power of ideas to transform the world is itself accelerating.

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As intelligence saturates the matter and energy available to it, it turns dumb matter into smart matter.

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Creating an avatar of this sort is one way of embodying that information in a way that human beings can interact with. It is inherently human to transcend limitations.

Ultimately, the entire universe will become saturated with our intelligence...This is the destiny of the universe.

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