Transhumanism [The Singularity] and Teihard de Chardin

My academic Facebook friend, Bryan Sentes [poet and teacher at Dawson College in Montreal], sent me this link, about the great Catholic theologian/philosopher/priest -- an idol of mine -- and his view of where humankind was headed....toward the Singularity (Transhumanism, the AI encrusted state of being to come, which absorbed the late and highly respected Mac Tonnies):

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-priest-who-believed-in-god-and-the-singularity-pierre-teilhard-de-chardin?utm_source=mbfb

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Artificial Intelligence strikes again!

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2079871-im-in-shock-how-an-ai-beat-the-worlds-best-human-at-go/

An instance of a mind gone awry, with contributing UFO alien facets

My Facebook friend Tim Brigham, a psychology professor in Florida, provided a link to this story (at FB), which examples a paranoid schizophrenic, and provides elements that intersect with alien abduction scenarios:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/09/idaho-shooting-suspects-hypersexual-martian-manifesto-is-a-window-into-an-unraveling-mind/

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