[HPforGrownups] Digest Number 237

[L. L. M.]

No: HPFGUIDX 5138

I think this theory is supported by an X-Files episode called "Kill Switch." 
  (Ok..i'm a major lurker but you can always rely on my to give my 2 knuts 
when I'm reminded of X-Files)  The episode is mainly about AI (artificial 
intelligence) and the computer knows how to blow things up and stuff but 
that's not where I'm going.  A part of the episode shows how someone can 
"upload" himself onto the internet, and the body dies but the mind lives 
forever through cyberspace. Then the girl does the same to herself so she 
can be with the guy in cyberspace.  I guess that kind of relates to being a 
cyber-elixer of life?
Lynnia

<<<I've just been reading Ray Kurzweil's book _The Age of Spitiual Machines_
by Ray Kurzweil.  Among other things, he predicits that computer technology
will allow us to drink the Elixer of Life and become immortal by 2050.  I 
find
this evocative, but at the same time I can't help thinking of this prospect 
in
the context of what Dumbledore tells Harry... Is Kurzweil and other
cyber-Flamels
longing for "precisely what is worst for them" and seeking to use computers 
to
evade "the next great adventure"?



                                                 -- Dave>>>

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