Yes, that Dan Brown, of da Vinci code fame, on the book tour circuit. From Reuters via Daily Mail:
Brown said technological change and the development of artificial intelligence would transform the concept of the divine.
‘We will start to find our spiritual experiences through our interconnections with each other,’ he said, forecasting the emergence of ‘some form of global consciousness that we perceive and that becomes our divine’.
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‘Our need for that exterior god, that sits up there and judges us … will diminish and eventually disappear,’ he added. More.
The perceived “need” for moral judgement disappeared a long time ago, actually. Governments today prefer secular systems where they can make and impose the rules themselves without reference to any moral order beyond their own wishes of the moment.
See also: Can AI become just like us? Show this to people who are freaked out by pop science claims about AI.
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Silicon Valley religion: “The final end of science is the revelation of the absurd”
This is fiction, right?
This is fiction, right?
Nuh…Dan Brown has been writing popular science books since has been a child… lol
I sense another book and movie deal coming on.
Severky at 3, I want space aliens and intelligent apes in starring roles.
Shame on Dan Brown. He stole this idea. It’s sounds to eerily like the Borg are coming. Resistance is futile.
Mark from CO
The collective…where have I heard that before? This can’t end well.
Dan Brown is a hardly disguised pulp adventure writer, but apparently it’s enough to license him to be taken far too seriously. His (I assume unintentional) parody of Jeremy England’s hypothesis as a magical MacGuffin that handily answers the Big Questions in one deliriously successful simulation is just the latest demonstration of this.
I’d as soon ask the Wachowski brothers about the impact of AI on society.
@7 “I’d as soon ask the Wachowski brothers about the impact of AI on society.”
–And their answer will be probably far better than Brown’s nonsense
Perhaps one of the reasons nonsense writers like this can be so popular is associated with the fact that we humans are not serious readers or listeners, but frivolously entertain ourselves all the way to the end of our conscious existence on this planet instead.
We’re supposed to test everything and hold what is good. But we usually do the opposite.
Pathetically sad.
Welcome to this world.
You will be Assimilated. Resistance is futile.