Theology for Scientists in 15 minutes

Will there be a singularity? Look at Jungian personality functions to answer the question (as well as cultural theory). Computers can do Reason, can do Intuition (which is group reason or group emotion - either knowing it or growing it). A computer can certainly know values and can expertly do sensory - although it cannot experience sensuality. Computers cannot have a limbic system. It won't say no based on its own need for pleasure or authenticity. We won't let it - nor can we build it. We can certainly simulate human tantrums, but it is not a good idea to do so.

Then there is the concept of uploading your consciousness. If it were possible, the reality is that you would then know how it feels to be a computer. Sounds like Hell to me. Again, no limbic system.

Scientists need to quit conflating what the Church says with the will of the ultimate reality - which, according to people who have had NDEs - is where free will is. We do not live free will, however. Events are negotiated before your life. How we react to them and treat others as part of the deal is what we can control. Einstein believed in the God of Spinoza. Jesus and Bill W. would agree. 

To know why this is, taking a theology course is needed to be a well rounded scientists, because as I wrote earlier, the rest of the galactic civilization does not care about our technology - they care whether we keep having societal tantrums. Until we stop (and atheists can be as tribal as anyone else), we are stuck on the planet. Again, people who have had NDEs and ask about ETs are told that advanced civilizations have made their peace with the God question. Human consciousness is eternal. We don't need to go to Mars to preserve it.