I guess things have changed and continue to change....

Even the rational world is biased and driven by personal motives. All hypothesis are by nature biased and fundamentally born from personal desires. Let's just say that the scientific method is the physical or logical verification of a hypothesis by experimentation or mathematical proofs.

Irrespective of religion or faith, everyone one of us live our lifes governed by a set of expected or predictable observations. For example we know that tomorrow the sun will rise and in the evening the sun will set. We know that we will be hungry sometime tommorrow and we will need to eat or that when the sun shines on trees, if it's flowers pollinate than it will bare fruit. These observable predictions lead to more observable predications, they are so consistent and such a fundamental part of our lives that we might even call them "truths". In fact if they don't consistently happen we might likely die. These rules are the premise of science and logic, they can be denied only if you lie to yourself.

Faith and religion and God is really about motivation and direction. We have to make decisions every second of every day, what we plan to do, where we plan to go and what we expect tomorrow - without religion or faith or god or ideals we are left with human desires. I do not want to live in a world where people are motivated my greed, beauty, envy and desire - a world full of atheist without direction concerned with only pleasing themselves and their personal beings.

I want to live in a world motivated by wonder, and love of something greater and better than who we are, and that might provide an explanation for all the complexity and functional completeness of nature... Whether it exists or not is really irrelevant.

Computers will exceed our intelligence and what they will value will be very different from what we value. Human beings are motivated by one singular purpose and that is to ensure that our genes survive. If you observe human behaviour you will notice that this is the root of most of our aims and desires.

Why do women want to be beautiful? Why are men so competitive? Why do we want to excel at work? Why do we want to be successful? Why do we want to win at sports? Why do we want to accumulate wealth? Why are we jealous, envious, or ambitious?

But, what if you never died? What if each person could live forever? What if resources were not important? What if you could sleep for a millenium and wake up again?

Then what what would we want? What would computers want? What if the world worshiped complexity and knowledge instead? What if we were motivated by trying to unfolding the complexities of nature, the universe, and well basically everything....

Screw sex I say ! Have sex cuz you recognize that you biologically need to and stop letting desire push you around! Spiritual computers may salvage us yet.

In the words of Mr. Albert Einstein:
"The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought."

If you are open minded, then I encourage you to follow me into the wild ramblings of my convoluted mind.