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Scientists like roboticist Hans Moravec and inventor Ray Kurzweil advocate uploading our minds into robots or virtual reality so that we can live forever. They believe that our minds can be replicated outside of our brains if we simply copy the pattern of neuro-chemical activity taking place in our bodies. That pattern, rather than the brains in which the pattern takes shape, “is” the personality. If it can be transferred to a digital medium, it can be made immortal. Surpassingly intelligent robots—our Mind Children, according to Moravec—will populate the universe, converting physical reality into a cosmic interweb of thinking machines.

Is Rand Paul a fringe candidate or a rising star in the Republican Party?

The Mormon church and social media.

Something is clearly up (or down) with religious affiliation, but reading that data calls for the art for interpretation, not mathematical modeling. That’s what makes this story far more interesting—and far less funny.

Televangelist supports possible war criminal to keep “ring of shari’ah” at bay.

Who’s undermining the Constitution?

A New Ager, a Jew, and Muslim walk into a church…

30,000 people have followed a religious call to fast in protest of budget cuts. Do the Democrats care?

But once again, Glenn Beck exhibits astonishing ignorance of history.