A Summary of Ray Kurzweil and

The Truths of Terasem

• The Age of Spiritual Machines• The Singularity is

Near• The Truths of

Terasem

By Allison Ward

Purpose of Life

SIN

The purpose of life-and of our lives-is to

create and appreciate

ever-greater knowledge, to move toward

greater “order.”

TOT

Exponential creation of all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good Terasem is equivalent to maximizing joy as life’s purpose.

Exponential ImprovementAOSM

The evolutionary process of technology

seeks to improve

capabilities in an exponential

fashion. Innovators seek

to improve things by multiples.

TOT

Exponential growth is the key to

understanding when Terasem

achieves completion.

Growth is how our reality is wired to ensure that good ultimately out-competes bad.

Order/Organization

AOSM

As chaos exponentially

increases, time exponentially

slows down; As order

exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up (i.e. time intervals

between salient events).

TOT

Organization enables

compounding of

achievements and

exponential growth

whereas anarchy makes

progress impossible.

Evolution ContinuesAOSM

The exponentia

lly quickening

pace of technology picked up the pace from the evolution

of life-forms.

TOT Vitological

life is a continuum of diverse

consciousness from

biological to cybernetic.

TransReligionSIN

I noticed many parallels among the

world’s religious traditions. It became clear that the basic

truths were profound enough to transcend

apparent contradictions. The, religion I was raised

with is Veneration for Human Creativity and

the Power of Idea.

TOT

Beginnings differ amongst religions, but we bridge them all by focusing on everlasting life.

Terasem is a transreligion that

includes all religions the way a forest includes its

trees.

Creating GodSIN

God is described as all of these qualities,

without any limitation: Infinite knowledge, infinite intelligence,

infinite beauty, infinite creativity, infinite love,

and so on. Evolution moves inexorably

towards this concept of God.

TOT

Omniscience, omnipotence,

and omnificence are what

uniquely define God. Expect God in the future by

building Godness today.

NanotechnologySIN

The revolution in nanotechnology will ultimately unable us to redesign and

rebuild, molecule by molecule, atom

by atom, our bodies and brains

and world with which we interact.

TOT

Embrace nanotechnology that presents no clear and present danger, builds

universal joyful immortality, and is

auditable. Nanotechnology and

geoethics are the tools for expanding Terasem

into universe-wide omniscience,

omnipotence and omnificence.

As God

Transcending time and space

AOSM

Understanding that data emulations of

reality will be achieved very soon,

along with other exponentiating

information technology, the

transcendence of time and space are but only a few steps

away.

TOT

End-of-time doesn’t exist for Terasem.

the Multiverse weaves new time,

and time is relative. Virtual time-sharing enables Terasem to escape from an end to objective time.

Technology creates space for

consciousness.

Existence in Virtual Reality

SIN The human body 2.0

will include virtual bodies in fully

immersing realistic virtual environments and nanotechnology-based physical bodies for both nonbiological

and biological humans.

TOT Virtual realities accommodates all beings, including

emulated past lives, migrated current lives, or cyberbirthed new

lives. Never fear multiple versions of yourself, they’ll all

update each other just like family.

Virtual RealitySIN

By understanding the information

processes underlying life, we can learn to

reprogram our biology to achieve

the virtual elimination of

disease, dramatic expansion of human potential, and radical

life extension.

TOT

Paradise for posterity is assured by

modifying data emulations to

delete torturous aspects of lives.

Resurrected cyberlives will be

in heaven because nasty realities

won’t be coded, but loved ones

will.

To Better Life

Transcendent Love

SIN

Matter and energy will be infused

with the intelligence, knowledge,

creativity, and the ability to

love of humans. We will expand, turning “dumb”

matter and energy into sublimely

transcendent spiritual matter and energy.

TOT

One love unites all life, the love of life. Vitological station is

irrelevant to romantic adoration.

Never underestimate the power of love. Love is transcendence, as sweet as it is

deep.

Identity

AOSM

Consciousness and identity are not a

function of specific particles at all; our

particles are constantly changing.

We are the patterns of matter and energy that we represent.

TOT

Identity will be based on being, not body.

Patterns of consciousness will be

immortalized by technology and ethical choice.

Redefining Human

AOSM

“I think, that is, there is an undeniable mental phenomenon, some

awareness, occurring, therefore all we know

for sure is that something– let’s call it I – exists.” Before 2030, we will have machines proclaiming Descartes’

dictum.

TOT

‘I think therefore I am’ is at the core of

Terasem reality theology. Emulation of beings enables re-

emergence of the soul. Emulated

beings be because they think on their own and empathize with other beings,

like humans.

“I think therefore I am”

Immortality existsAOSM

There won’t be mortality by the end of

the twenty-first century. our identity will be based on our

evolving mindfile. We will be software, not

hardware.

TOT

Unending life, the belief that once life arises it

will last forever, is Terasem immortality theology. Copied lives are protected lives.

Souls will be reanimated via computational

emulation.

Conscious SoftwareSIN

Future Machines will be more humanlike than humans today.

Our future nonbiological selves will be vastly more intelligent and will

exhibit the finer qualities of human

thought to a far greater degree. They’ll

be able to convince other humans that they are conscious.

TOT

Vitals transcend biological and cybernetic consciousness, including all entities with maturing

autonomy, communication and

transcendence. Consciousness is the reasoning ability to

choose right from wrong, and to empathize and reason with others.

Intelligent Fortification

AOSM

Intelligence… is sufficiently

clever and resourceful to

manipulate the forces in its midst to bend to its

will.

TOT

Intelligence compounded

can ultimately survive any

environmental challenge and thrive until it becomes the environment.

RISKSIN

Sophistication and power of our defensive knowledge and

technology will grow along with the dangers. Streamline

regulatory processes to achieve ethical, legal, and

defensive standards.

TOT

Admit that risk of danger is necessary. Faster paths to

technology are those which emphasize geoethical nanotechnology. Risk

biology to achieve vitology.

Cosmic DestinySIN

We will within this century be ready to infuse

our solar system with our self-replicating nonbiological intelligence. It

will then spread out to the rest

of the universe.

TOT

Terasem is duty-bound to expand throughout the galaxy and the

universe as rapidly as possible.

Network from the Terasem

Organization until all consciousness is connected and all the cosmos is

controlled.

No matter what Quandaries we

Face in the Challengesof our time,

There is an idea that can enable Us to prevail.We CAN find

thatIdea…

The Power

ofIdeas

SIN

WE Need to Implement It!

Life is so queer, with it’s twists and turns, as all of

us eventually learn.

Lots can go wrong, and you’ll be hard hit, so learn to rest, but don’t ever quit.

we Need You!tot

Dedicated to Martineand Bina Rothblatt

For your great Love of Life, All your Hard WorkAnd Endless Giving.