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A Quote by Ray Kurzweil on patternist, transcend, and patterns

To transcend means to “go beyond,” but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of reality (e.g., the spiritual level) to be not of this world. We can “go beyond” the “ordinary” powers of the material world through the power of patterns. Rather than a materialist, I would prefer to consider myself a “patternist.” It’s through the emergent powers of the pattern that we transcend.

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Ray Kurzweil
Source: Are We Spiritual Machines?: Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I., Page: Chapter 10: The Material World
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Marmalade : Gaia Child
about 1 year later
Marmalade said

I love patterns.  I too think that there is transformative power in seeing the world as patterns.

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