Spiritual Machines

Ray Kurzweil Intro

Right Behind You (Mafia)

Ray Kurzweil 2029

In Repair

Life

Middle Of Yesterday

Are You Sad

Ray Kurzweil 2029 (Part 2)

Made To Heal

Ray Kurzweil 1949-97

Everyone's A Junkie

Ray Kurzweil On Death

All My Friends

If You Believe

The Wonderful Future

Kurzweil and Molly
 

01- Ray Kurzweil Intro

The Age of Spiritual Machines 10 to 15 billion years ago, the universe was born

02 - Right Behind You (Mafia)

You You You You You You You You You You You You haven't seen the world outside for days You sleep, you hope, you wait Imagination disappears And all the dreams you have, you save Confrontation like a mirror They try to take your mind away   Hey hey I don't know, but I believe In yesterday, and what it means To bleed and know that you're okay   Are you waiting? No matter what you say No matter what you do No matter what I'm always Right there behind you   No matter what you say No matter what you do No matter what I'm always Right there behind you   You You You You You You You You You You You Bombarded by the atmosphere You breathe, you choke, you breathe again   Conversation disappears You realize they're not your friends The panic of the future rears You dig, you jerk You find another way   Hey hey I don't know, but I believe In yesterday, and what it means To bleed and know that you're okay   Are you waiting? No matter what you say No matter what you do No matter what I'm always Right there behind you   No matter what you say No matter what you do No matter what I'm always Right there behind you   You opened up my veins Now I don't feel the same No no no You opened up my brain But I won't be replaced   No no no No matter what you say No matter what you do No matter what I'm always Right there behind you No matter what you say No matter what you do No matter what I'm always Right there behind you No matter what you say No matter what you do No matter what I'm always Right there behind you No matter what you say No matter what you do   No matter what I'm always   Right there behind you

03 - Ray Kurzweil 2029

The year is 2029 The machines will convince us that they are conscious That they have their own agenda worthy of our respect They’ll embody human qualities They’ll claim to be human And we’ll believe them

04 - In Repair

Well it's good to know that you'll be okay I've been waiting for this And I'll be there to sit while you pray No one's blaming me I'm not supposed to wait When they open up your heart   Oh I… I have been good, I understood Like a machine, I'll fix you from the start I'm in repair, the life that we share I know that I'll be lost in But we're always in repair   Lock the door, lock the door Lock the door, lock the door Lock the door, lock the door And it's good to know that you'll drive away From this car crash nightmare And I'll be there to help you again And there's no danger We're just killing time again When they order up new parts   Oh I… I have been good, I understood Like a machine, I'll fix you from the start I'm in repair, the life that we share I know that I'll be lost in But we're always in repair   Take this time to figure it out Know the wire, the fuse, the things that you doubt The wheels, the air, the metal, the mouth Something, something, something   Oh I… I have been good, I understood Like a machine, I'll fix you from the start I'm in repair, the life that we share I know that I'll be lost in Oh I… I have been good, I understood Like a machine, I'll fix you from the start I'm in repair, the life that we share I know that I'll be lost in But we're always in repair   Lock the door, lock the door Lock the door, lock the door Lock the door, lock the door

05 - Life

How many times have you been pushed around? Is anybody there? Does anybody care? And how many times have your friends let you down? Is anybody there? Did anybody stare? And how many times have your friends let you down? Just open up your heart Just open up your mind And how many times has your faith slipped away? Well, is anybody safe? Does anybody pray? Oh, life is waiting for you It’s all messed up, but we're alive Oh, life is waiting for you It’s all messed up, but we'll survive Do do do do do do do do do do do Do do do do do do do do do do do And how many days have you just slept away? Is everybody high? Is everyone afraid? And how many times have you wished you were strong? Have they ever seen your heart? Have they ever seen your pain? Oh, life is waiting for you It’s all messed up, but we're alive Oh, life is waiting for you It’s all messed up, but we'll survive She gets high She gets lost She gets drowned by the cost Twice a day, every week, and all her life She gets high She gets lost She gets drowned by the cost Twice a day, every week, and all her life Life is waiting for you It’s all messed up, but we're alive Oh, life is waiting for you It’s all messed up, but we'll survive Oh, life is waiting for you It’s all messed up, but we're alive Oh, life is waiting for you, oh It’s all messed up, but we're alive It’s all messed up, but we’ll survive It’s all messed up, but we're alive It’s all messed up, but we’ll, oh we’ll, survive

06 - Middle Of Yesterday

You feel the love You feel the past It's all the things you thought you had   Huuuh, Huuuh     Oh, well I woke up in hell today I woke up depressed and drained And that's ok cause I promise not to hurt you again Apparently I'm to blame But apparently I've been framed By a memory that won't help me When it's happening   Out of the mind Out of the soul Out of the light Out of control   Standing in the middle of yesterday When it all went wrong And we made mistakes I'm sorry for the things I forgot to say But it won't be long And it’ll be ok, hey Huuuh, Huuuh   Oh, I promised you I would change I'm an asshole, and I'm ashamed And I'm upset 'cause I betrayed Everything that you gave Will you ever let me explain? Can I beg you to let me stay Don’t quit me 'cause I'll never let this happen   Out of the light Out of the soul Out of the mind Out of control   Standing in the middle of yesterday When it all went wrong And we made mistakes I'm sorry for the things I forgot to say But it won't be long And it’ll be ok   You feel the love And you feel the past It's all the things you thought you had You feel the love You feel the past It's all the things you thought you had All the things you thought you had   Standing in the middle of yesterday When it all went wrong And we made mistakes I'm sorry for the things I forgot to say But it won't be long And it’ll be ok   Standing in the middle of yesterday When it all went wrong And we made mistakes I'm sorry for the things I forgot to say But it won't be long And it’ll be ok, yeah   Oh well I’ll make it up to you I’ll make it up to you I’ll make it up to you uh huh    Oh well I’ll make it up to you I’ll make it up to you I’ll make it up to you uh huh

07 - Are You Sad?

Your life has been so hard It's dried up angels, can't keep guard And I'm trying to reach your hand But I'm on fire I never meant to fade... away, away Oh just stop pretending when they say your nothing Are you sad? Are you holding yourself? Are you locked in your room? You shouldn't be   Are you sad? Are you holding yourself? Are you locked in your room? You shouldn't be I'm drowning inside your head Help me to answer Help understand Why it's been so long since we talked like friends Oh please forgive me, I'm just a man Whose made mistakes Wait for me Oh just stop pretending when they say your nothing Are you sad? Are you holding yourself? Are you locked in your room? You shouldn't be   Are you sad? Are you holding yourself? Are you locked in your room? You shouldn't be    Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh   Are you sad? Are you holding yourself? Are you locked in your room? You shouldn't be Are you sad? Are you holding yourself? Are you locked in your room? You shouldn't be   Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh you shouldn’t be   Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh you shouldn’t be   Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Are you sad? Are you holding yourself? Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh You shouldn’t be   Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Are you sad? Are you holding yourself? Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh You shouldn’t be?   Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Are you sad? Are you holding yourself? Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

08 - Ray Kurzweil 2029 (Part 2)

2029 there is a growing discussion About the legal rights of computers And what constitutes being human

09 - Made To Heal

I gave up on you And your exercise And the world that I knew Then, I fell back on you Cause I need more time And I need an excuse I'm a thief, a liar, an angel in the fire I'm a king, a drug, the push that comes to shove I'm a freak, a star, I'm everything you are I'm your Jesus, I'm your pride Made to heal I’m made to heal I’m made to heal I’m made to heal   I depend on you For the wings of life And the air that you move And I defended you For this one last time For the nerves you abuse   I'm a thief, a liar, an angel in the fire I'm a king, a drug, the push that comes to shove I'm a freak, a star, I'm everything you are I'm your Jesus, I'm your pride Made to heal I’m made to heal I’m made to heal I’m made to heal   You open up my weight I’m alone and then You’re old enough to say   I'm a thief, a liar, an angel in the fire I'm a king, a drug, the push that comes to shove I'm a freak, a star, I'm everything you are I'm your Jesus, Jesus Made to heal I’m made to heal I’m made to heal I’m made to heal   I'm made to heal I’m made to heal I’m made to heal I’m made to heal

10 - Ray Kurzweil 1949-97

In 1949 George Orwell portrays a chilling world In which computers are used by large bureaucracies To monitor and enslave the population in his book 1984   (young child sings "Big green monkey, everyone’s a junkie" throughout Kurzweil’s talking)   The year is 1976, Kurzweil computer products Introduces the Kurzweil reading machine The first print to speech reading machine for the blind   1997, Deep Blue beats Garry Kasparov, The world chess champion In a regulation tournament

11 - Everyone's A Junkie

I'm not waiting for the answers On a Sunday afternoon I'm just too drunk to remember Why I always slip through The drugs that fake ambition (get the feeling now) Have been helping me to hide (get the feeling now) But it's the endless television (get the feeling now) That has kept me inside Where does it stop? Where does it end? Where do we go? Why am I always complaining? I can be good I can be bad I can be loved But everything's gone black You're looking for that sun You're looking for that light Lonely, you're not the only one to feel this way It's black, you're looking for that sun You're looking for that light Lonely, you're not the only one to feel this way Big green monkey, everyone's a junkie I'm not asking for forgiveness (get the feeling now) For the things that I don't know (get the feeling now) But I'm really not that different (get the feeling now) You just made me think so Where does it stop? Where does it end? Where do we go? Why am I always complaining? I can be good I can be bad I can be loved But everything's gone black You're looking for that sun You're looking for that light Lonely, you're not the only one to feel this way It’s black, you're looking for that sun You're looking for that light Lonely, you're not the only one to feel this way And big green monkey, everyone's a junkie Big green monkey, everyone's a junkie oh oh oh oh  Big green monkey, everyone's a junkie oh oh oh oh (you fake, you squeal) oh oh oh oh Big green monkey, everyone's a junkie (you grow, you quake) oh oh oh oh Big green monkey, everyone's a junkie You’re the big green monkey, everyone's a junkie! Black You're looking for that sun You're looking for that light Lonely, you're not the only one to feel this way It's black, you're looking for that sun You're looking for that light Lonely, you're not the only one to feel this way And I'll remember this someday It's black, you're looking for that sun You're looking for that light Lonely, you're not the only one to feel this way It's black, you're looking for that sun You're looking for that light Lonely, you're not the only one to feel this way And big green monkey, everyone's a junkie

12 - Ray Kurzweil On Death

Take death for example A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it We make extraordinary efforts to delay it And often consider its intrusion a tragic event Yet we’d find it hard to live without it Death gives meaning to our lives It gives importance and value to time Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it If death were indefinately put off The human psyche would end up Well like the gambler of the Twilight Zone episode

13 - All My Friends

All my friends Alone on a hill They're just looking down With violent minds out on loan They're just not equipped Insistence Hope for the best We’re not making sense in silence Wait for the day when they're better then In this silence, I'm not buying You’re not leaking You’re not Guess we’d better hold on   Again this time We won't understand again I'm not waiting for some sense this time We won't understand again I'm not waiting for, for, for, for Still they sit Alone on a hill Their mechanical thoughts have left Out on their own They're not buying this In this silence, I'm not buying You’re not leaking You’re not Guess we’d better hold on   Again this time We won't understand again I'm not waiting for the man This time, we won't understand again I'm not waiting for The sense this time We won't understand again But I’m not waiting for The sense this time We won't understand again Oh, I’m not waiting for   No no no no   Won't understand again But, I’m not waiting for   No no no no   Won't understand again But, I’m not waiting for

14 - If You Believe

So, you made up your mind You're tired of trying Time to be scared And oh you wanted to fly You can't close your eyes Time to beware But if you believe in the world I'm calling And if you belong in the world I saw And if you believe in the world I'm calling You'd be strong So you wasted your time You willed it goodbye Time to be scared And oh you thought you could buy Your last piece of mind Time to beware But if you believe in the world I'm calling If you belong in the world I saw If you believe in the world I'm calling You'll feel strong If you believe in the world I'm calling If you belong in the world I saw If you believe in the world I'm calling You’d be strong   And if you believe in the world I'm calling If you belong in the world I know If you believe in the world I'm calling You’d be strong   If you believe in the world I'm calling If you belong in the world I know If you believe in the world I'm calling World I’m calling oh oh   If you believe in the world I'm calling If you belong in the world I know If you believe in the world I'm calling You’d be strong    If you believe in the world I'm calling If you belong in the world I saw If you believe in the world I'm calling You’d be strong   If you believe in the world I'm calling If you believe

15 - The Wonderful Future

She builds her own satellite From an old rusted chair She leaves this old world behind And the things that she cares   Maybe she's gone But it won't be for long What do I know?   Maybe she's found What we all dream about What do I know? Oh     She's beautiful And wild Well I can't compare And wild But it's just not there, fair   She builds a strong alibi From the future that's here She needs to know I'm alive But I'm flesh and I tear   Maybe she's wrong But I wouldn’t mind my own What do I know? I’m best to let go  With a touch of her soul What do I know? Oh   She's beautiful And wild And I can't compare And wild And it’s just not fair And wild And I can’t compare And wild Oh it’s just not fair And wild, oh no,  And wild, oh it's wild And it’s just not the end

16 - Ray Kurzweil and Molly (The Computer)

Ray:  Anyway, you do look amazing  Molly: You say that every time we meet Ray:  I mean you look 20 again, only more beautiful than at the start of the book Molly:  I know that's how you'd want me Ray:  Ok, you were an attractive young woman when I first met you and you still project yourself as a beautiful young woman at least when I'm with you Molly: Thanks Ray: Are you saying that you're a machine now? Molly: A machine? That's really not for me to say it's like asking me if I'm brilliant or inspiring Ray: I guess the word machine in 2099 doesn't have quite the same connotations that it has here in 1999  Molly: It's hard for me to recall now   Ray:  Oh well Molly:  I'm really just dabbling but creating music is a great way for me to stay close with Jeremy and Emily Ray:  Creating music sounds like a good thing to do with your kids even if they are almost 90 years old.  So could I hear it? Molly:  Uh I'm afraid you wouldn't understand it Ray:  So it requires enhancement to understand? Molly: Yes most of it does.  For starters, the symphonies and frequencies that a mosh can't hear and it has much too faster tempo and it uses musical structures that a mosh could never follow Ray:  Can't you create art for non-augmented humans?  I mean there's still a lot of depth possible.  Consider Beethoven, he wrote almost two centuries ago and we still find his music exhilarating Molly:  Yes there is a genre of music.  All the arts actually, where we create music and art that a mosh is capable of understanding Ray: And then you play mosh music for moshes? Molly:  hmm now that's an interesting idea.  I suppose we could try that, although moshes are not that easy to find anymore.  It's really not necessary though, we can certainly understand what a mosh is capable of understanding. The point though is to use the mosh limitations as an added constraint. Ray: Sort of like composing new music for all instruments? Molly:  Yeah new music for old minds   Ray:  Maybe we should kiss goodbye Molly:  Just a kiss? Ray:  We'll leave it at that for this book.  I'll reconsider the ending for the movie Molly:  Here's my kiss.  Now remember I'm ready to do anything or be anything you want or need Ray:  I'll keep that in mind Molly:  That's where you'll find me Ray:  Too bad I have to wait a century to meet you Molly:  Or to be me Ray:  Yes that too.  Actually Molly, there are a few other questions that have occurred to me.  What were those limitations that you referred to?  What did you say you were anxious about?  What are you afraid of?  Do you feel pain?  What about babies and children?  Molly?