In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.