Spiritual Machines

01. Ray Kurzweil Intro
The Age of Spiritual Machines
10 to 15 billion years ago, the universe was born



02. Right Behind 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
I don't know but i believe in
Yesterday and what it means to bleed
And know that you're okay
No matter what you do
No matter what you say
I'm always right there behind 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


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
I have been good
I understood
And like a machine they'll fix you
From the start
I'm in repair
The life that we share
I know that I'll be lost but we're always in repair
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
There's no danger we're just
Killing time again
Until they order up new parts


05. Life
How many times have you been
Pushed around
Is anybody there
Does anybody care
How many times have your friends
Let you down
Is anybody there
Did anybody stare
How many times has your faith slipped away
Is everybody high
Is everyone afraid
How many times have you wished you
Were strong
Have they ever seen your heart
Have they ever seen your pain
Life is waiting for you
It's all messed up but we're alive
Life is waiting for you
It's all messed up but we'll survive


06. Middle of Yesterday
Oh, well I woke up in hell today
I woke up depressed and drained
But that's okay cuz
I promised not to hurt you again
And 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 soul light control
Standing in the middle of yesterday
Where it all went wrong
Where we made mistakes
I'm sorry for the things I forgot to say
But it won't be long
Until it will be okay
Well I promised you I would I change
But I'm an asshole and I'm ashamed
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
Cuz I'll never let this happen...again


07.Are you sad?
Your life has seemed so hard
It's been dried up angels
That can't keep guard
I'm trying to reach your hand
But I'm on fire I never planned to
Fade away, stay with me
Stop pretending when they say you're nothing
Are you sad
Are you holding yourself
You shouldn't be
Are you sad
Are you locked in your room
You shouldn't be
I'm drowning inside your head
Help me to answer help understand
But it's been so long since we talked
Like friends, please forgive me
I'm just a man whose made mistakes


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
I fell back on you
Because I need more time
And I need an excuse
You're a thief a liar
An angel caught on the fire
A king a drug
The push that comes to shove
A freak a star
I am everything you are
I'm your Jesus I'm your pride
We're made to heal
I depend on you
For the wings of life
And the air that you move
I defended you
For this one last time
And the nerves you abuse We're 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 and fake ambition
Have been helping me to hide
But it's the endless television
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
Everything's gone black
You're looking for that sun
You're looking for that light
You're not the only one to feel that way
I'm not looking for forgiveness
For the things that I don't know
I'm really not that different
You just made me think so


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
We hope for the best
We're not making sense
In silence wait for the day
When you're better than
In this silence
I'm not buying
But you're not faking
I'm not
I guess we better hold on again
Cuz this time
We won't understand again
I'm not waiting for some sense
Still they sit alone on a hill
Their mechanical thoughts
Have left them out on their own
They're not buying this


14. If You Believe
So you made up your mind
You're tired of trying
Time to be scared
You wanted to fly
But you can't close your eyes
Time to beware
If you believe in the world I'm calling
If you believe in the world I saw
If you believe in the world I'm calling
You'd be strong
So you wasted your time
You willed it good-bye
Time to be scared
You thought you could buy
Your last piece of mind
Time to beware


15. The Wonderful Future
She builds her own satellite
She leaves from an old rusted chair
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
She's beautiful and wonderful
I can't compare, it's wonderful
It's not that fair, she builds a strong alibi
From the future that's here
She needs to know I'm alive and that I'm flesh
And I tear, she's beautiful


16. Ray Kurzweil and Molly
Ray: Anyway, you do look amazing
Molly: You say that everytime 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 symphanies 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 wote almost two centuries ago and we still find his music auxilerating
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?