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An article entitled ''The 25 Most Influential Living Atheists'' describes the atheist [[Ray Kurzweil]] thusly:
An article entitled ''The 25 Most Influential Living Atheists'' describes the atheist [[Ray Kurzweil]] thusly:
{{cquote|Ray Kurzweil sees technology as fulfilling all aspirations previously ascribed to [[religion]], including immortality. He argues that computing machines will soon outstrip human cognitive capacities, at which point humanity will upload itself onto a new, indestructible digital medium (an atheist version/vision of “[[resurrection]]”).<ref>[http://www.superscholar.org/features/influential-atheists/ ''The 25 Most Influential Living Atheists'']</ref>}}
{{cquote|Ray Kurzweil sees technology as fulfilling all aspirations previously ascribed to [[religion]], including immortality. He argues that computing machines will soon outstrip human cognitive capacities, at which point humanity will upload itself onto a new, indestructible digital medium (an atheist version/vision of “[[resurrection]]”).<ref>[http://www.superscholar.org/features/influential-atheists/ ''The 25 Most Influential Living Atheists'']</ref>}}
== Luke Muehlhauser quote on human consciousness ==
[[File:Luke Muehlhauser.jpg|thumbnail|225px|right|[[Luke Muehlhauser]] (pictured on the left) and Brad Voytek (pictured on the right).]]
The atheist [[Luke Muehlhauser]] wrote on human consciousness:
{{Cquote|I assume that some seemingly-core features of human conscious experience are illusions, and thus need to be “explained away” rather than “explained.”...
Similarly, I think some core features of consciousness are illusions, and the job of cognitive scientists is not to explain how those features are “real,” but rather to explain why they seem to us to be real (even though they’re not). For example, it seems to us that our conscious experiences have “intrinsic” properties beyond that which could ever be captured by a functional, mechanistic account of consciousness. I agree that our experiences seem to us to have this property, but I think this “seeming” is simply mistaken.<ref>[https://www.openphilanthropy.org/2017-report-consciousness-and-moral-patienthood 2017 Report on Consciousness and Moral Patienthood] by Luke </ref>}}
== See also ==
== See also ==