Harold P. Sjursen is an educator and administrator having served on the faculty of both a liberal arts college and school of engineering. His background is in the history of philosophy, but since childhood has sustained an interest in science and technology. His current research interests focus on the philosophy of technology, global philosophy, and technological ethics. His engineering education projects address issues related to the internationalization of higher education, the integration of the liberal arts and engineering and ethics beyond the codes for engineers.

“The Singularity reminds me - of course aware of lots and lots of differences - but it's a tendency which is as old as Gnosticism. I think, and a dream that people have had. It's a peculiar dream, in my mind because it's sort of saying that life is something like being in prison, and what we need to do, the future that we ought to want for ourselves, is to get out of jail. And so this is a profound denial of life. I guess that's what it is, we seem to be having a view that technology can free us from problems that we have.

It's as though nature has been the cause of our problem, and if we could only marshal our strongest self, which is seen in terms of this kind of powerful calculative type of reasoning, then we'll be able to achieve something, which is I guess utopian but reminds me of some kind of semi-religious kind of promise. So this sets everything up, and the need for rethinking a lot of things. We are material, physical, living creatures, and not just minds that are trapped inside a body.”

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