Ray Kurzweil is endeavoring to achieve an atheistic version of heaven.[1]

Ray Kurzweil is an engineer and futurist known for his inventions in the field of optical scanning.[2] Kurzweil is an atheist.[3]

## Kurzweil: Endeavoring to upload the human brain and achieve a technological singularity[edit]

See also: Atheism and transhumanism and Atheism and death and Atheism and life after death

An article entitled The 25 Most Influential Living Atheists describes the atheist Ray Kurzweil thusly:

“  |  Ray Kurzweil sees technology as fulfilling all aspirations previously ascribed to religion, including immortality. He argues that computing machines will soon outstrip human cognitive capacities, at which point humanity will upload itself onto a new, indestructible digital medium (an atheist version/vision of “resurrection”).[4] |  ”

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Ray Kurzweil declared:

“  |  I wanna tell you about our future, I estimate around 2025, that we will have expanded our intelligence a billion fold by merging with the Artificial Intelligence we are creating.

But that's such a profound expansion that we borrow this metaphor from physics and call it a singularity.

We'll be a hybrid of biological and non-biological intelligence," he says. "But the non-biological part of ourselves will also be part of our consciousness.[5]

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Kurzweil updated his prediction of a "singularity" and said that he expects it to happen by 2045.[6][7]

The article Top 10 atheist inconsistencies declares:

“  |  Some atheists like Ray Kurzweil advocate transhumanist doctrines that prophesy of a near future - in as few as 20 years, according to him - in which a singularity event will occur. With the singularity event, humans will be able to use science to achieve immortality. Kurzweil speaks of this singularity event with the same fervor in which the proverbial Southern Baptist minister raves about the Rapture. Fantasizing about post-singularity humanity, Kurzweil proclaims that, being able to live for eternity, we will eventually be able to know everything that can possibly be known.

But does he believe it's possible that there just might be another being in this vast universe who has achieved all knowledge before he has? No, that is ludicrous.[8]

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## References[edit]

1. ↑ The 25 Most Influential Living Atheists
2. ↑ [1]
3. ↑ 50 Top Atheists in the World Today, Thebestschools.org
4. ↑ The 25 Most Influential Living Atheists
5. ↑ What is the Singularity? Steve Aoki & Ray Kurzweil made a tune that explains!, Techbubble.info
6. ↑ Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045, Futurism.com
7. ↑ Panel - Lawrence Krauss, Ben Goertzel, Steve Omohundro - the Perils of Prediction, YouTube Video, quoting Ben Goertzel
8. ↑ Top 10 atheist inconsistencies