Freeman Dyson on Theology

Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson

theologytranshumanism

What will mind choose to do when it informs and controls the universe? This is a question which we cannot hope to answer. When mind has expanded its physical reach and biological organization by many powers of ten beyond the human scale, we can no more expect to understand its thoughts and dreams than a Monarch butterfly can understand ours. … In contemplating the future of mind in the universe, we have exhausted the resources of our puny human science. This is the point at which science ends and theology begins.

Infinite in All Directions, page 118, New York: Harper Perennial, 2004

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