http://therabbitportal.blogspot.ca/2013/06/ray-kurzweil-aietc.html,
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/06/andrew_ng,
http://www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3511
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/apr/02/obama-brain-initiative-fight-disease,
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/why-spend-a-billion-dollars-to-map-the-human-brain/274594
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/the-next-nsa-spying-shoe-to-drop-artificial-intelligence.html
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-customer-information-nsa,
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-spies-at-gchq-spied-on-foreign-politicians-at-g20-summit-meetings-in-london-8661182.html
In one sense, the more retrievable data that can be stored, the better.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/05/army-biometrics-cloud
Of course, this means that almost everything in & around the world can eventually become recorded or interpolated. http://therabbitportal.blogspot.ca/2013/06/global-surveillance-systems.html
The brain is a physical organ that some believe only produces the illusion of consciousness.
https://www.msu.edu/~brains/brains/human
As humanity advances with technology, there is even more of a push to basically imply that consciousness is simply a byproduct of the human mind. There can't be life before or after the current life experience, because the concept of reincarnation causes too many people to ask too many questions. There can't be any intelligent life on other worlds, because that will also cause too many people to ask too many questions about the nature of reality. http://www.infinicity.org
As a small portion of humanity has been able to develop more efficient & expansive supercomputers to record everything possible, it is hoped that most of humanity will never become aware of the ancient concept of the Akashic Records.
http://phys.org/news/2013-06-rethinking-universe-groundbreaking-theory-multiverse.html,
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-physics-complications-lend-support-to-multiverse-hypothesis
So far just trying to record, interpolate & model-the-known-universe is challenging enough.
http://therabbitportal.blogspot.ca/2013/08/big-robot-is-watching-you.html
