Death Is A Great Tragedy…a

To Transcend Means To "go Beyond," But This Need Not Compel Us To An Ornate Dualist View That Regards Transcendent Levels Of Reality (e.g., The Spiritual Level) To Be Not Of This World. We Can "go Beyond" The "ordinary" Powers Of The Material World Through The Power Of Patterns. Rather Than A Materialist, I Would Prefer To Consider Myself A "patternist." It's Through The Emergent Powers Of The Pattern That We Transcend.

We Have The Means Right Now To Live Long Enough To Live Forever. Existing Knowledge Can Be Aggressively Applied To Dramatically Slow Down Aging Processes So We Can Still Be In Vital Health When The More Radical Life-extending Therapies From Biotechnology And Nanotechnology Become Available. But Most Baby Boomers Won't Make It Because They Are Unaware Of The Accelerating Aging Process In Their Bodies And The Opportunity To Intervene.

There Is One Brain Organ That Is Optimised For Understanding And Articulating Logical Processes And That Is The Outer Layer Of The Brain, Called The Cerebral Cortex. Unlike The Rest Of The Brain, This Relatively Recent Evolutionary Development Is Rather Flat, Only About 0.32 Cm (0.12 In) Thick And Includes A Mere 6 Million Neurons. This Elaborately Folded Organ Provides Us With What Little Competence We Do Possess For Understanding What We Do And Who We Do It.

Does God Exist? Well, I Would Say, 'not Yet'.

By 2009, Computers Will Disappear. Displays Will Be Written Directly Onto Our Retinas By Devices In Our Eyeglasses And Contact Lenses.