Re: Rate of Dissent "Welcome to the Machine"

The interesting thing about evolution is that if things evolve they evolve everywhere in the universe. There are millions of stars and likely millions of habitable planets (why would ours be the only spec of dust in all this vast space that's habitable? We're not that special.). That would likely mean that this evolution to higher states of being that Kurzweil is always talking about has happened someplace else already (i.e. this super intelligence exists someplace already and perhaps understands most of everything). Starts to sound a bit like God. And maybe it's happened many places already? And perhaps the vast expanse of space is actually ruled and ordered by these monolithic intelligences. Even designed by them...