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The Bible teaches that the wages of sin is death. Satan teaches that death can be conquered by following him and not accepting what Jesus has done to conquer death.

February 27 - 'Singularity' Movement Seeks Human Immortality

Article: Misc.

Some see the achievement of immortality by 2050 at the latest. A number of ideas now exist concerning bridging the gap between a finite lifespan and one with a trajectory that never ends. Various age researchers believe the key is in DNA and its markers. Others are concentrating their research efforts in techniques that will regenerate human cells forever without loss of critical biological information.

Still others see silicon and steel as the way to never die.uploading the brain into a virtual world where human thought and personality survives forever. A few have a twist on the latter idea: they want to upload the mind and then download it again in a new body, either human or android.

Now the formal recognition of a movement towards immortality has arrived. The movement has been in existence for decades, but has never had a name. TIME staff and editors have christened the proponents of life everlasting as the "Singularitists."

The Singularity Movement has now gained fresh momentum with a new generation of enthusiasts seeking to circumvent the way of all flesh.

One of the current outspoken spokesmen of the Singularity Movement is Raymond Kurzweil. TIME's article centered around him. The grand vision encompasses a complete, irreversible transformation of humans. When the transition occurs, he proclaims, it will herald the end of the human race as we know it.

Lev Grossman, who wrote the article for TIME writes about the transition period: "When that [the achievement of super-powered artificial intelligence] happens, humanity-our bodies, our minds, our civilization-will be completely and irreversibly transformed. He [Raymond Kurzweil] believes that this moment is not only inevitable but imminent. According to his calculations, the end of human civilization as we know it is about 35 years away."

And there is the vision of Singularity: the transformation of Mankind into something beyond Man. A dimensionless ghost in a virtual machine. Or perhaps something like it.

On the surface, all this would seem to lead to a burgeoning growth of a super-human race, A nirvana on Earth-and eventually in the heavens-where immortals achieve wonders once only dreamed of by the ancient Greeks and Romans who endowed such powers upon their gods.