Allison Ward's imaginative meditation on Kurzweil and the Truths of Terasem reflected in poetically selected excerpts, fonts and graphic backgrounds.

2. SIN TOT
The purpose of Exponential
life-and of our creation of all-
lives-is to create knowing, all-
and appreciate powerful, all-
ever-greater good Terasem
knowledge, to is equivalent to
move toward maximizing joy

3.  The evolutionary
process of
technology seeks
to improve
capabilities in an
exponential
fashion.
Innovators seek to
improve things by

6. TOT
 I noticed many parallels  Beginnings differ
among the world’s amongst religions,
religious traditions. It but we bridge them
became clear that the all by focusing on
basic truths were
everlasting life.
profound enough to
Terasem is a
transcend apparent
transreligion that
contradictions. The,
includes all religions
religion I was raised with
the way a forest
is Veneration for Human
includes its trees.
Creativity and the Power
of Idea.

7. SIN TOT
 Omniscience,
 God is described as all of
omnipotence,
these qualities, without
and
any limitation: Infinite
omnificence are
knowledge, infinite
what uniquely
intelligence, infinite
define God.
beauty, infinite creativity,
Expect God in
infinite love, and so on.
the future by
Evolution moves
building
inexorably towards this
Godness today.
concept of God.

8.  Embrace nanotechnology
 The revolution in
that presents no clear and
nanotechnology will
present danger, builds
ultimately unable us to
universal joyful
redesign and rebuild,
immortality, and is auditable.
molecule by molecule,
Nanotechnology and
atom by atom, our
geoethics are the tools for
bodies and brains and expanding Terasem into
world with which we universe-wide
interact. omniscience, omnipotence
and omnificence.

9. AOSM TOT
 End-of-time doesn’t
 Understanding that
data emulations of exist for Terasem. the
reality will be achieved Multiverse weaves new
very soon, along with time, and time is
other exponentiating relative. Virtual time-
information sharing enables
technology, the Terasem to escape from
transcendence of time an end to objective time.
and space are but only Technology creates
a few steps away. space for
consciousness.

10.  The human body 2.0 will  Virtual realities
include virtual bodies in accommodates all beings,
fully immersing realistic including emulated past
virtual environments and lives, migrated current
nanotechnology-based lives, or cyberbirthed new
physical bodies for both lives. Never fear multiple
nonbiological and versions of yourself, they’ll
biological humans. all update each other just
like family.

11. SIN TOT

12. SIN TOT
 Matter and energy will be  One love unites all life,
infused with the the love of life.
intelligence, knowledge, Vitological station is
creativity, and the ability to irrelevant to romantic
love of humans. We will adoration. Never
expand, turning “dumb” underestimate the power
matter and energy into of love. Love is
sublimely transcendent transcendence, as sweet
spiritual matter and as it is deep.
energy.

14.  “I think, that is, there is an  „I think therefore I am‟ is
undeniable mental at the core of Terasem
phenomenon, some reality theology.
awareness, occurring, Emulation of beings
therefore all we know for enables re-emergence
sure is that something– of the soul. Emulated
let‟s call it I – exists.” beings be because they
Before 2030, we will have think on their own and
machines proclaiming empathize with other
Descartes‟ dictum. beings, like humans.

15.  There won’T be  Unending life, the
mortality by the end belief that once life
of the twenty-first arises it will last
century. our forever, is Terasem
identity will be immortality theology.
based on our Copied lives are
evolving mindfile. We protected lives. Souls
will be software, will be reanimated via
not hardware. computational
emulation.

16. SIN TOT
 Future Machines will be  Vitals transcend biological
more humanlike than and cybernetic
humans today. Our future consciousness, including all
nonbiological selves will entities with maturing
be vastly more intelligent autonomy, communication
and will exhibit the finer and transcendence.
qualities of human thought Consciousness is the
to a far greater degree. reasoning ability to choose
They’ll be able to convince right from wrong, and to
other humans that they are empathize and reason with
conscious. others.

17. AOSM TOT

18.  Sophistication  Admit that risk
and power of our of danger is
defensive necessary.
knowledge and Faster paths to
technology will
technology are
grow along with
those which
the dangers.
emphasize
Streamline
geoethical
regulatory
nanotechnology.
processes to
Risk biology to
achieve
ethical, legal, and achieve vitology.
defensive
standards.

19. SIN TOT
 We will within this  Terasem is duty-bound
century be ready to to expand throughout
infuse our solar the galaxy and the
system with our universe as rapidly as
self-replicating possible. Network
nonbiological from the Terasem
intelligence. It will Organization until all
then spread out to consciousness is
the rest of the connected and all the
universe. cosmos is controlled.