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The Invisible Technology and The Singularity Will Nanotechnology Transcend Biology? Andrew Linnell Slide 1 [email protected] Invisible Technology

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Lecture given at the Natural Science Section meeting of November 2010 in Chicago. It explores the promises and dangers of Nanotechnology, how Ray Kurzweil\'s Singularity promises similar hopes to those of Spiritual Science but from a materialistic perspective. We then look at the future perceived by Rudolf Steiner where Humanity becomes the 10th Hierarchy and co-creators of the future.

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The Invisible Technology and The Singularity

Will Nanotechnology Transcend Biology?

Andrew Linnell

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[email protected]

Invisible Technology

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Our Journey Tonight …

What is Nanotechnology? Claimed Benefits Potential Dangers Merging of Man and Machine?

The Prophecy of Kurzweil’s Singularity Anthroposophical Understanding

What is going on here? How will this affect our future? What should we do? – Call to Action!

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Ray Kurzweil’s Vision of the Future

Pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition

GNR

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When Silicon Beings Surpass Carbon

The Singularity is reachedWhen AI surpasses HI withSelf-replicating intelligent machines

$2000 computer, 2020 = human brain, 2045 = Σ all human

Blue Brain ProjectMimic the Brain

www.eetimes.com, May 28, 2008

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The Singularity Movie

GNR to make a “better” life and world “Humanity is fast approaching an era in which our

intelligence will become increasingly merged with computers and trillions of times more powerful.

This will be the dawning of a new civilization, enabling us to transcend our biological limitations.

Boundaries blur between human and machine, real and virtual. Human aging and illness are reversed, world hunger and poverty are solved, and we cure death.”

“Live long enough to live forever”

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Life After the Singularity

“The bulk of our experiences will shift from real reality to virtual reality

Most of the intelligence of our civilization will ultimately be nonbiological, which by the end of this century will be trillions of trillions of times more powerful than human intelligence

However, this does not imply the end of biological beings, even if thrown from its perch of evolutionary superiority [Kurzweil expects the rise of hybrid humans]

Moreover, it is important to note that the nonbiological forms will be derivative of biological design

In other words, our civilization will remain human, indeed in many ways more exemplary of what we regard as human than it is today, although our understanding of the term will move beyond its strictly biological origins.”

Ray Kurzweil

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Double Edged Sword of GNR

The first half of the 21st century will be characterized by three overlapping revolutions in Genetics, Nanotechnology, and Robotics (GNR)

Promise and peril: led some serious thinkers to propose that we go very cautiously, possibly even to abandon them

Bill Joy wrote, “We are being propelled into a new century with no plan, no control, no brakes! The only realistic alternative I see is relinquishment: to limit the development of the technologies that are too dangerous, by limiting our pursuit of certain kinds of knowledge.” http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html

Joy’s deep concern about the future grew out of Ray Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual Machines

Kurzweil: “Technology has always been a mixed blessing, bringing us benefits such as longer and healthier life-spans, freedom from physical and mental drudgery, and many novel creative possibilities on the one hand, while introducing new dangers. Technology empowers both our creative and destructive natures.”

http://wise-nano.org/w/Kurzweil_CTF_Essay

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Where is Technology Going?

Minimal size for lifehttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-viruses-alive-2004

Quantum Physics Nanotechnology

Macro

Can we modify genes?

InvisibleInvisible

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When Will Nano-Products Arrive?

Stain-resistant fabrics Time-release perfumed

fabrics Odor-eating socks Cosmetics & sunscreen Golf and tennis balls

Clubs and racquets Paints Self-cleaning glass Water purifiers Capsules carrying

haemoglobin

Water impurity testers Sprayable vitamins Ski wax Long-lasting paper Flat panel displays Flash memory devices Artificial silicon retinas Drug delivery systems Car parts Diagnostic agents for

use in MRI scans

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They are already here!

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A Few Scientific Studies of Dangers

2004: environmental toxicologist Eva Oberdörster, SMU: Fullerenes killed water fleas and extensively damaged fish brains after exposure of only 48 hours at a relatively moderate dose of 0.5 parts per million

Gene markups in their livers were changed 2002: CBEN (Center for Biological and Environmental

Nanotechnology) indicated that nanoparticles accumulated in the bodies of lab animals and fullerenes could easily travel through soil and be absorbed by earthworms thereby entering the food chain

This is a potential link up in the food chain to humans 2004: British scientist Vyan Howard published findings that

indicated gold nanoparticles travel through a mother’s placenta to the fetus

2002: UCSD revealed cadmium selenide nanoparticles, also called quantum dots, cause cadmium poisoning in humans

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Removable From Our Environment?

No known effective method Nothing in Nature “knows” what these are No “predator” – nothing can digest them Only fire (Old Saturn) sufficient to break chemical bonds

Morgellons Disease -- Collembola Symptoms: crawling, biting and stinging sensations;

granules, threads or black speck-like materials on or beneath the skin; and/or skin lesions

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Dangers – And Few Even Care

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Wealth vs SafetyWho will win?

No Regulations,Past Mistakes Asbestos Lead in petrol PCBs DDT - pesticides Synthetic hormones Fast food

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Recent News

Dr. Perricone's anti-aging products use Fullerenes to carry active ingredients into the skin

“These nanoparticles are extremely dangerous and products containing them should be banned,” demands Dr. Samuel Epstein, M.D. of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health

"The ultramicroscopic Fullerenes, also known as nanoparticles, have been introduced without any labeling into a growing number of Dr. Perricone's anti-aging products, particularly skin creams and Ceramic Eye Smoother. These are touted as reducing wrinkles and firming up the skin surface.”

http://www.world-wire.com/news/1001120001.html

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Single-walled Carbon Nanotube(SWNT)

• Stronger and stiffer than steel.

• They conduct electricity better than copper

• Conduct heat better than diamonds C60

(Buckminster-fullerene)

Carbon Nanostructures

Philosopher’s Stone

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The Dodecahedron and The Fullerene

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Without Him

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Steiner on Facing Human-Mechanical

“The will is there to harness human energy to mechanical energy

These things should not be treated by fighting against them – that is a completely false view

These will not fail to appear; they will come What we are concerned with is whether, in the

course of world history, they are entrusted to people who are familiar in a selfless way with the great aims of earthly evolution and who structure these things for the health of human being or whether they are enacted by groups of human beings who exploit these things in an egotistical or in a group-egotistical sense

It is not a question of what; the what is sure to come; it is a question of the how, how one tackles these situations

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Robotic Arms for Humans

December 2, 2009 A group of European scientists say they have

successfully connected a robotic hand to a man who had lost an arm, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial hand and control it with his thoughts.

The experiment lasted a month. Scientists say it was the first time an amputee has been able to make complex movements using his mind to control a biomechanic hand connected to his nervous system.

The Italian-led team said at a news conference Wednesday in Rome that last year they implanted electrodes into the arm of the patient, who had lost his left hand and forearm in a car accident.

The electrodes were removed after a month, during which the man learned to wiggle the robotic fingers and make other movements.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091202/ap_on_he_me/eu_italy_robotic_hand

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Linking the Brain to Mechanical Arms

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Turn Thoughts in Action: BrainGate

http://www.braingate.com/

“If the patient still has the ability to “think” about movement, BrainGate™ has the potential to interpret and re-connect those signals, thus allowing the patient to move those limbs simply by thinking about it.”

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Heal the Blind via Sensory Augmentation

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Brain Augmentation

Man and Machine Marvin Minsky, MIT Replace the brain

Reverse engineer Embedded

computer Wireless internet GPS National ID Credit card

666? Sorry- just too tempting

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Nanotechnology and Virtual Reality

Wireless sensory augmentation Implantation at or

even before birth It will become the

norm Visual & audio easy –

how about touch? A New Maya – a

second “reality” Mental context switch Need for a threshold?

Guardian? Whispers the

foolishness of a spiritual worldImitation of the

Etheric Realm

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Is This the Man-Machine Mystery?

Integration: Man-Machine Artificial limbs, organs,

nerves, muscles Sensory augmentation Computer implantation Brain-internet connection

for full Virtual Reality Biologically compatible

vibratory systems RFID technology implanted

in forehead Required for business Influence on machines

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Recent News on Man-Machine

Pets and livestock (ears), equipment Alzheimers, diabetics, immigrants, soldiers,

sex offenders, children, employees Readers monitor blood, whereabouts

VeriChip with RFID & GPS, also Digital Angel Size of grain of rice, $150 VIP clubbers

No place for money VeriMed Home use

Marketeers’ dream Why Stop Here?

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Designing Your Baby (Eugenics ?)

Eliminating defects

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How? Nanobots

Deliver medicinal directly to affected area

Repair internals non-invasively

“Surgically” remove tumors

Manufacturing Personalized Self replicating

Issues: Removal from body Grey ooze

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Today’s Stage for Human Activity

Life Chem/Tone Light Warmth/Fire Air Water Earth/Dark Electricity Magnetism 3rd Force

Physical World

Super-NatureEtheric Realm

Sub-NatureVirtual Reality

What is Software?Software emulates a process. We think about the steps of a process, then we freeze it – kill it. We separate it from the world to focus only on the process. Hence software is:• Dead• Separate• Dark• ColdCompare to the 4 Ethers.

As we delve into sub-Nature, so must we, in balance, rise into Super-Nature

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The Battle For The Etheric Realm

1st step towards Spiritual Consciousness Meditation

Reincarnation: memory of past lives Ahriman’s intent to pull the Human down

Man and Nature as machines Downplaying of morals, free-will, love, thinking

Sub-Nature and Super-Nature Attachment of a 2nd Being : For Jupiter?

Did Humans to Angels on Old Moon?

Logos appearing within the Etheric Reflection of love in the etheric body

Etheric technology revealed

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Sub-Nature’s Image of the Living

Sub-Nature is developing using Super-Nature as her archetype

From Life came the Lifeless As Excretion Physical transformed from warmth of Old Saturn Will pass away at the end of Earth’s Ages

Philosopher’s Stone as Living Carbon Trans-substantiation versus GMO & nanoparticles

Scientist’s Workbench as Altar Reverence for the Wisdom embedded in Nature

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Attachment of a Second Being

“During the course of the Fifth Post-Atlantean epoch, so many problems have lost all inner, vital warmth. The countless questions which confront us when we study Spiritual Science with any depth, simply do not exist for the modern man with his materialistic outlook. A different form of experience will come to the man of modern times. In his own opinion he knows ever so well; he observes the material world, uses his intellect to establish the interconnections between its phenomena and believes that all its riddles are solved in this way, never realizing that he is simply groping in a phantasmagoria. But this way of working coarsens and dries up his ether-body, with the ultimate result that the [Ahrimanic] powers, like a second nature, will attach themselves to him. The Balance in the World and Man, Lucifer and Ahriman, Rudolf Steiner

Note Similarity to Angel as a Second Being

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Confronting Ahriman

“In an ether-body that has been parched by materialism, Ahriman will be able to dwell.

It is our duty to educate children in the future in such a way that they will be competent to understand the spiritual world.

The ether-body must be quickened in order that the human being may be able to take his rightful stand, fully cognizant of the nature of the being who stands at his side. If he does not understand the nature of this second being, he will be spellbound by him, fettered to him.”

“We, in our age, must get the better of Ahriman by enriching the Ego with the wisdom that can be born only from knowledge and investigation of the spiritual world, i.e. from Spiritual Science.”

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The Voice of Technology

The body, this mass of biomolecules, is a machine that acts according to a set of specifiable rules... We are machines, as are our spouses, our children, and our dogs... I believe myself and my children all to be mere machines. [Rod Brooks, Director of CS-AIL, MIT.]

The neural code is the software whereby the brain transforms raw sensory data into perceptions, memories, decisions, and meanings. [John Horgan Science Writer and Author of Rational Mysticism]

The more we learn about our brains, the more ways we will find to improve them. …With further advances, no part of the brain will be out of bounds for attaching new accessories. In the end, we will find ways to replace every part of the body and brain – and thus repair all the defects and flaws that make our lives so brief. Needless to say, in doing so, we'll be making ourselves into machines. [Marvin Minsky, Director of MIT Media Lab]

Will Robots Inherit the Earth? (Scientific American, October 1994)

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Minsky: on Soul and Spirit

“Many thinkers firmly maintain that machines will never have thoughts like ours, because no matter how we build them, they'll always lack some vital ingredient.

They call this essence by various names--like sentience, consciousness, spirit, or soul. Philosophers write entire books to prove that, because of this deficiency, machines can never feel or understand the sorts of things that people do.

However, every proof in each of those books is flawed by assuming, in one way or another, the thing that it purports to prove--the existence of some magical spark that has no detectable properties.

I have no patience with such arguments. We should not be searching for any single missing part.”

The Emotion Machine, Simon and Schuster, 2006

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What About the Human Spirit?

Trans-Spirit is a natural science branch where “researchers seek to achieve a complete scientific understanding of spiritual phenomena and, based on that understanding, to develop techniques and technologies for inducing ‘spiritual experiences’ at will

Trans-Spirit aims to focus almost exclusively on the physical mechanisms that predispose human beings to believe and behave according to religious and spiritual norms.” Trans-Spirit: Religion, Spirituality and Transhumanism, Journal of Evolution and Technology, 2005 Vol. 14 pgs 39-53, Michael LaTorra, New Mexico State University

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Heart Transplants Inherit Memory

Dr. Paul Pearsall contends that the heart thinks, feels, remembers, and communicates with other hearts

An 8-yr. girl received the heart of a 10-yr. girl who had been murdered.

Psychiatrist: girl said she knew who the murderer was.

Police notified who were able to track him down by following the girl’s instructions and convict him on the evidence she had provided

Clues about: the time, the weapon, the place, the clothes he wore, etc.

Everything the girl said was true Does the transplanted heart take with

it its etheric heart and its memories?

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Reincarnation?

http://www.fox8.com/wjw-reincarnation-txt,0,1190900.story http://www.reversespins.com/proofofreincarnation.html

11 year old James Leininger – James Huston The most documented case of reincarnation Recalls over 50 memories from past life World War II Pilot's family believes it is their

reincarnated brother based on child's memories See book "Soul Survivor"

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Are These Thresholds?

Minimal size for lifehttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-viruses-alive-2004

Quantum Physics Nanotechnology

60 Atoms

C60

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“And No Stone Shall Be Left Unturned”

“We are living now in the epoch of evolution that may be called the Mineral Epoch; and our task is to permeate this mineral world through and through with the spirit within us.

“What you have done to the mineral world passes into the very atoms and does not vanish without a trace. Every such atom bears a trace of your spirit and will carry this trace with it.

“Whether an atom has at some time been in a machine, or has not been in a machine, is not a matter of indifference. The atom itself has undergone change as a result of having once been in a machine, and this change that you have wrought in the atom will never again be lost to it.” The Atom as Coagulated Electricity, GA93

Nanotechnology’s Relationship to Quantum Physics

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What is the Atom?

The atom is nothing but coagulated electricity. Thought itself is composed of the same substance.

Before the end of the fifth epoch of culture, science will have reached the stage where man will be able to penetrate into the atom itself.

When the similarity of substance between the thought and the atom is once comprehended, the way to get hold of the forces contained in the atom will soon be discovered and then nothing will be inaccessible to certain methods of working.

It is impossible to conceive what might happen in such circumstances if mankind has not, by then, reached selflessness.

The attainment of selflessness alone will enable humanity to be kept from the brink of destruction.

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Evolving Human Consciousness

“Moreover, through your having changed the atom, through the fact that you have united the spirit in you with the mineral world, a permanent stamp has been made upon the general consciousness of mankind.

“Everything that is performed without regard to self, that is connected with the interests of another, helps to intensify and to strengthen our consciousness in the future struggles for existence.

You build a church for others, not for yourself. “Whatever is achieved in the way of development of

consciousness in the world does something to further the evolution of the consciousness of every single being, even if such a being has not actually worked at the development of his own consciousness.” The Atom as Coagulated Electricity, GA93

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Summary of Nanotechnology

Invisible Technology Ahriman’s wish to work invisibly

Approaching atomic where matter disappears Newtonian physics no longer valid

Appeals to greed, vanity, and egoism Also provides opportunity for selfless work

Applies mostly to sub-natureSuper-nature: Etheric Astral SpiritSub-nature: “Fallen” etheric forces Electricity (light) Magnetism (chemical) 3rd force – nuclear? (life)

To remain healthy, as deeply as Man penetrates into sub-nature, so must he rise into super-nature

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What Will Be Our Future World?

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“What is now around you will become your inner life. You will take into yourselves what is now the mineral kingdom and it will become part of your inner being; similarly the plant kingdom. What surrounds you in nature will become your inner being.

“What we ourselves prepare and make ready in the world — that is what will constitute our future existence.

“The measure of what you yourself place into the world is the measure of the consciousness that the world will give back to you.

“What we do with the mineral world, with the plant world, with the animal world, and with men, that we shall surely become.”

If you found a charitable institution or have contributed something to its foundation, what you have contributed will become an integral part of you. ” The Atom as Coagulated Electricity, GA93

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Historical Picture

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Dark

Abraham

Moses

Age

Lucifer Ahriman

Devolution

Evolu

tion

Meeting with “next” humans and with super humans

15th Century

repetitionnew formsOld forms Lo

ve

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On the Road to JupiterJuly 20, 2009 Slide 44

Vulcan – 3rd depth

Venus – 2nd depth

Jupiter – Sub-Nature

7 Stages of Earth Condition

Saturn -Physical

Sun –Etheric

Moon – Astral

Earth – Ego

Gods Create

Creates Man

Fire

Air

Water

Earth

Jupiter – Manas, Super-Nature

Venus – Buddhi

Vulcan – Atman

Warmth

Light

Tone

Life

EthericHierarchy = 12

Laws of Polarities

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Overlapping Evolutions

On Old Moon the Angeloi were at the human state Their appearance was quite different from ours

Quite different conditions existed We developed to an advanced pre-state of the Earth

evolution We became a troublesome concern for the Angeloi

In the descending Earth evolution the Jupiter Humans arise On Jupiter, they will have advanced to a new and

different form of man These Jupiter men exist already now just as we

existed upon Old Moon They exist not externally visible but as

supersensible beings

The Mission of the Archangel Michael, V, The Michael Deed and the Michael Influence as Counter-pole of the Ahrimanic Influence, November 29, 1919

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Overlapping Evolutions, cont.

These sub-human beings’ character consists of an impulse which strongly coincides with the human power of will They now appear from below as beings produced in

Ahriman’s realm They play into where we are most asleep – our will Ahrimanic influences act through those with obscured

consciousnesses “as long as one does not take into consideration

these forces as forces objectively existing in the world just as one takes into consideration what today is called magnetism, electricity, and so forth, one will not gain an insight into human nature” Today's natural science does not contain man, merely

the physical body

The Mission of the Archangel Michael, V, The Michael Deed and the Michael Influence as Counter-pole of the Ahrimanic Influence, November 29, 1919

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Mankind’s Continued Becoming

In the beginning, form was given to all by the Gods 5th Epoch: Man given power to give form for minerals

Just as in the past the Gods created the mineral world from a chaotic mass, so our cathedrals, inventions and even our institutions are the germs for a future world

So We Must Transform the Earth Into a temple of truth, beauty, and goodness

6th Epoch: Man transforms the plants Man will be able to create and give shape to plant-life

7th Epoch: Man transforms the animal kingdom Man will give form and have power over animal life

And at a still higher stage, he will be able to reproduce his like by an act of conscious will (love)

Gods allow Man to delve into sub-nature for Jupiter But for health, we must be balanced with super-nature

Rudolf Steiner, An Esoteric Cosmology XV

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Love and Jupiter

"Just as wisdom was evolved upon the Moon, in order that it might now be found in all things, so in like manner is love evolving

Love came into existence first in its lowest, its most sensuous form, during the Lemurian period

Love will become ever more and more spiritualized, until at last, when the Earth has reached the end of its evolution, the whole of existence will have become pervaded with love as today it is pervaded with wisdom

The Beings who will wander about upon Jupiter, just as human Beings move about upon the Earth, will find love exhaling from all creatures, the love which they themselves, as Human Beings, will have placed there during their life upon the Earth

They will find love in everything just as we today find wisdom everywhere Then human beings will develop love out of their own inner selves in the

same way that they are now little by little evolving wisdom The great cosmic love that here upon the Earth is beginning its existence will

then permeate all things.“ Rudolf Steiner, Gospel of St. John, Hamburg Wisdom to Cosmic Love to The Father. Manas to Buddhi to Atman Question: As Earth is permeated by Wisdom from the Kyriotetes, what

beings will we assist to build a Jupiter permeated by Love?

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Conclusion and Call to Action

Involved Union of Concerned Scientists? Are we limited by our comfort zones?

Nanotechnology is but the beginning of The Road to Jupiter We must wrest from Ahriman what’s needed Humans becoming co-creators

Battle for the Etheric Blind Humanity from seeing Christ in the Etheric Trans-substantiation, raise flesh to Etheric

Must balance sub-Nature with super-Nature Waldorf Schools Spiritual Science

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Facing the Future

“We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror of what comes towards Man out of the future. We must acquire serenity in all feelings and sensations about the future.

We must look forward with absolute equanimity to everything that may come. And we must think only that whatever comes is given to us by a world-directive full of wisdom.

It is part of what we must learn in this age, namely, to live out of pure trust, without any security in existence - trust in the ever-present help of the spiritual world.

Truly, nothing else will do if our courage is not to fail us.” Rudolf Steiner

The What is sure to happen, what matters is the how

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Rudolf Steiner Bibliography

An Outline of Occult Science, 1909

Egyptian Myths and Mysteries, 9/2-14, 1908

The Balance in the World and Man, 11/20-22, 1914

The Realm of Language, The Lost Unison between Speaking and Thinking, 7/17-18, 1915

Inner Impulses of Evolution, Mexican Mysteries and Knights Templar, 9/16 – 10/1, 1916

The Karma of Vocation, 11/4-27, 1916

The Karma of Materialism, 7/31-9/25, 1917

The Work of the Angels in Man’s Astral Body, 10/9/1918

Rosicrucian Esotericism, 1909 Theosophy of the Rosicrucian,

1907

The Challenge of the Times, 11/29 – 12/8, 1918

The Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman, 11/1-15, 1919

The Mission of the Archangel Michael, 11/21-30, 1919

The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric

The Boundaries of Natural Science, 9/27 – 10/3, 1920

Life between Death and a New Birth as Image of the Future Jupiter, 10/21, 1921

Michealmas and the Soul-Forces of Man, 9/27 – 10/1, 1923

The Michael Mystery, 3/1925Also, Battle for the Etheric, Nick

Thomas, 1995

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Backup slides

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Mixing Humans with …

Humanzee may already have been done!

George Church, a genome researcher at Harvard Medical School: • Use Neanderthal genome to bring one to life • Implant embryo in chimp Why?• Neanderthal may have genetic immunity to human-specific

diseases such as HIV or smallpox• Lead to new gene therapy or drug treatments• “Unethical not to clone them!” We could learn from them• Creating “a sibling species” would give us more genetic diversitySound like Exploitation?

Neanderthals:

95% of their DNA sequence, and 99% of coding DNA sequences are in common

Unsolved History broadcast Discovery Channel March 27, 1998

Page 54: The Invisible Technology, Will Nanotechnology Transcend Biology

Invisible Technology

Edible Nanostructures?

Crystals consisting of cubes made from six gamma-cyclodextrin molecules linked in three-dimensions by potassium ions

Nov. 18, 2010 Slide 54

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Edible?

Sugar ring

Cyclodextrin