Quote of the Day: Ray Kurzweil on Becoming Like Gods

Michelangelo: The Creation of Adam

The different religions of the world have a surprising agreement on what God is. God is an unlimited amount of what: memory, intelligence, creativity and love — basically the highest things a neocortex does. What happens in evolution, entities like mammals and humans become more intelligent, more creative, more loving, and moving exponentially to become more God-like; never quite reaching God, but moving in that direction. So evolution is a spiritual process to bring us closer to God, and technological evolution is now running a million times faster than biological evolution and ultimately we will vastly ultimately trillions-fold expand our creativity and our sense of humor and our ability to love and will become more God-like.

--Ray Kurzweil

And yet carry our flaws forward as well? There would have to be some way to filter out the "good"--those that could responsibly handle the power--from the "bad." But the only filter I see from Kurzweil and other writers is that of "wealth," which seems to be a very poor filter.