Instead of peace, he ends up pursuing revenge -- murdering the wife of his creator and ultimately leading Frankenstein into the Arctic, where the two are lost in a figurative icy Hell. The ideas underlying Frankenstein are that human life is precious, that it is endowed with a soul by a Creator; indeed, the essence of the novel is that God exists, that man is not God, that God has a purpose in mind for man. Though the novel does not expressly reveal this purpose, history does provide some insights -- especially the history of the Christian West. For believing Christians, the purpose of life is to know, love and serve God so that we may be happy with Him in the next world. Various cultures have expressed this same view in different ways: Hindus express it in the idea of reincarnation; Buddhists in the idea of Nirvana. The point that these cultures, religions and philosophies make is that life has a purpose. Christianity explicitly states, moreover, that this mortal life here on Earth is not an end in and of itself but rather a beginning -- the prelude to eternity, which is found on the other side of the grave. Choosing which eternity we will posses depends upon our disposition: we may choose ourselves and go to Hell, or we may choose Christ and go to Heaven.
For the Christian, death is not something to be avoided, but rather something that is a punishment for sin -- for Original Sin -- that which makes human nature fallen. AI, as Kurzweil sees it, is a way to avoid death, to escape the debt that the Christian God has placed on all creation. For Kurzweil, the myth of religion is most likely not something he genuinely feels compelled to regard as important. His interests are in science, in nanotechnology, in "the law of accelerating returns," as he calls it (Casti 663). Not everyone believes as he does, however; some, who still maintain the traditional views of the past and of the Old World in particular are more inclined to abstain from venturing too far into a contemplation of playing God -- of obtaining immortality without Him. Too many myths for ancient times (the Greeks and Romans, for example) tell what happens when presumptuous man flies too close to the sun. Kurzweil appears to be daring us to do just that. His vision is certainly bold -- but it also seems to discount the whole of human history in the sense that human nature is what it is: and for those who believe that God has created man, man's spirit is not evolutionary. It, in fact, is God's and is called to return to God. This return is a humbling experience, as man's pride ever since the Fall (according to the Christian narrative) is his own worst enemy, constantly leading man to consider himself an end in himself, his own passions and interests the only that matters. In his pride, he fails to consider how he must look to an infinite Judge Who is really the source of all things.
None of this matters, of course, if the world chooses to embrace the vision offered by Kurzweil. Many may seek…
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