Shree Krishna and the Singularity

This is the story of a man who wanted to learn the greatest of all Nature's secrets - and did! Will that make him a Modern Prometheus, or is he just kidding himself?To Dr. Charles Seaton the secret of consciousness means pushing back the frontiers of human knowledge and creating an undreamed of age of progress and enlightenment. To Uma Priya devi-dasi the secret of consciousness is a way to overcome birth, death, old age, and disease. To Lacey Philips the secret of consciuousness is an...
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This is the story of a man who wanted to learn the greatest of all Nature's secrets - and did! Will that make him a Modern Prometheus, or is he just kidding himself?To Dr. Charles Seaton the secret of consciousness means pushing back the frontiers of human knowledge and creating an undreamed of age of progress and enlightenment. To Uma Priya devi-dasi the secret of consciousness is a way to overcome birth, death, old age, and disease. To Lacey Philips the secret of consciuousness is an interesting premise for an adult movie. All three of them will participate in Project GISMO, an attempt to create the first conscious machine. The success of this project will change their lives, and the lives of everyone else, in ways none of them can predict or understand.They will learn answers to questions that philosophers have struggled with for centuries. Is consciousness a purely material phenomenon, or is it something else? Does our consciousness survive the death of the body, and if so what happens to it? If it is eternal, has it always existed? If so, where was our consciousness before it arrived in our bodies? If consciousness is not material, could there be a whole universe that is not material? If so, what is our consciousness doing in this universe? Did it originally come from that other universe, and if so, is there any way for it to return? If it could return, would it want to? On the other hand, if consciousness is a purely material phenomenon, could we make a machine that has consciousness?Finally, can any movie based on Atlas Shrugged make a profit?Their story is one of spirit and matter, of spirituality and sensuality, of Religion and Science, of Krishna Consciousness and Machine Consciousness, of Makers and Takers, and what happens when these things come together in unexpected ways. It takes place in a world where Atlas Shrugged meets Artificial Intelligence, Siddhartha meets Silicon Valley, and Boogie Nights meets the Bhagavad Gita.It is a story that a more scientifically minded Hermann Hesse, or a more spiritually inclined Edward Elmer Smith, might have written.It is a story that only the author of The Life And Times Of Bhakta Jim could give you.Explore the world of Shree Krishna And The Singularity at its Google+ page: bit.ly/1sLkMk4