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Chapter Seven: Ich bin ein Singularitarian 
1.
In Jay W. Richards et al., 
Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I.
(Seattle: Discovery Institute, 2002), introduction, 
http://www.KurzweilAI.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0502.html. 
2.
Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, M.D., 
Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever
(New York: Rodale Books, 2004). 
3.
Ibid. 
4.
Ibid. 
5.
Max More and Ray Kurzweil, "Max More and Ray Kurzweil on the Singularity," February 26, 
2002, http://www.KurzweilAI.net/articles/art0408.html. 
6.
Ibid. 
7.
Ibid. 
8.
Arthur Miller, 
After the Fall
(New York: Viking, 1964). 
9.
From a paper read to the Oxford Philosophical Society in 1959 and then published as "Minds, 
Machines and Gödel," 
Philosophy
36 (1961): 112–27. It was reprinted for the first of many times in 
Kenneth Sayre and Frederick Crosson, eds., 
The Modeling of Mind
(Notre Dame: University of 
Notre Dame Press, 1963), pp.255–71. 
10.
Martine Rothblatt, "Biocyberethics: Should We Stop a Company from Unplugging an Intelligent 
Computer?" September 28, 2003, 
http://www.KurzweilAI.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0594.html (includes links to a 
Webcast and transcripts) . 
11.
Jaron Lanier, "One Half of a Manifesto," 
Edge
, 
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier/lanier_index.html; see also Jaron Lanier, "One-Half of a 
Manifesto," 
Wired News
, December 2000, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.12/lanier.html. 
12.
Ibid. 

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13.
Norbert Wiener, 
Cybernetics: or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1948). 
14.
"How Do You Persist When Your Molecules Don't?" 
Science and Consciousness Review
1.1 (June 
2004), http://www.sci-con.org/articles/20040601.html. 
15.
David J. Chalmers, "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness," 
Journal of Consciousness 
Studies
2.3 (1995): 200–219, http://jamaica.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/papers/facing.html. 
16.
Huston Smith, 
The Sacred Unconscious
, videotape (The Wisdom Foundation, 2001), available for 
sale at http://www.fonsvitae.com/sacredhuston.html. 
17.
Jerry A. Fodor, 
RePresentations: Philosophical Essays on the Foundations of Cognitive Science
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1981).