Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds

345 Pages·2014·1.4 MB·English

by  Russell Blackford

Intelligence Unbound

Intelligence Unbound
The Future of Uploaded and Machine
Minds
Edited by
Russell Blackford and
Damien Broderick
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1 2014
To Aubrey Townsend, who handed me the tools
Russell Blackford
To R. Daneel Olivaw, Golem XIV, Donovan’s Brain, and Paul
Durham, in the hope that things turn out better next time
Damien Broderick

Contents
NotesonContributors ix
IntroductionI:MachinesofLovingGrace(Let’sHope) 1
DamienBroderick
IntroductionII:BringontheMachines 11
RussellBlackford
1 HowConscienceAppsandCaringComputerswillIlluminate
andStrengthenHumanMorality 26
JamesJ.Hughes
2 ThresholdLeapsinAdvancedArtificialIntelligence 35
MichaelAnissimov
3 WhoKnowsAnythingaboutAnythingaboutAI? 46
StuartArmstrongandSeánÓhÉigeartaigh
4 NineWaystoBiasOpen-SourceArtificialGeneralIntelligence
TowardFriendliness 61
BenGoertzelandJoelPitt
5 FeasibleMindUploading 90
RandalA.Koene
6 Uploading:APhilosophicalAnalysis 102
DavidJ.Chalmers
7 MindUploading:APhilosophicalCounter-Analysis 119
MassimoPigliucci
8 IfYouUpload,WillYouSurvive? 131
JosephCorabiandSusanSchneider
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9 OnthePrudentialIrrationalityofMindUploading 146
NicholasAgar
10 UploadingandPersonalIdentity 161
MarkWalker
11 WholeBrainEmulation:Invasivevs.Non-InvasiveMethods 178
NaomiWellington
12 TheFutureofIdentity:Implications,Challenges,and
ComplicationsofHuman/MachineConsciousness 193
KathleenAnnGoonan
13 PracticalImplicationsofMindUploading 201
JoeStrout
14 TheValuesandDirectionsofUploadedMinds 212
NicoleOlson
15 TheEnhancedCarnalityofPost-BiologicalLife 222
MaxMore
16 QualiaSurfing 231
RichardLoosemore
17 DesignofLifeExpansionandtheHumanMind 240
NatashaVita-More
18 AgainstImmortality:WhyDeathisBetterthantheAlternative 248
IainThomsonandJamesBodington
19 ThePinocchioSyndromeandtheProstheticImpulse 263
VictorGrech
20 BeingNicetoSoftwareAnimalsandBabies 279
AndersSandberg
21 WhatWillItBeLikeToBeanEmulation? 298
RobinHanson
Afterword 310
LindaMacDonaldGlenn
Index 321