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Ray Kurzweil Does Not Understand The Brain

PZ Myers – a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris – as a thing or three to say about Ray Kurzweil’s claim that we’ll reverse engineer the brain by 2020. Personal attacks aside, he makes a strong point.


June 15, 2010
Science

Singularity University, Where You Major In Immortality

Over the weekend, The New York Times ran a lengthy profile on Singularity University, an incubator for futurists of all stripe founded by Ray Kurzweil. On the highly exclusive school’s curriculum: nanotechnology, synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and of course, immortality.