Is immortality really so bad? Why do only the villans of literature pursue such while the rest of act as though we see such as vial? Perhaps the truth is that we lament our lack of such. Immortality is just sour grapes.

Will AI advance to the point of consciousness? Will digital computers fully match or even exceed human intelligence? John Searle argues that that would be impossible and that human minds are not just computational, instead functioning on great biological processes. What does that extend to and how different really is the mind from computers?