Lincoln Center, New York City, June 2013
Global Future 2045: Towards a New Strategy for Human Evolution, Congress Proceedings – version 0.71a (partial)

Editor's note

This is the Advance Release version (0.71a) of the Congress Proceedings & Transcripts for Global Future 2045: Towards a New Strategy for Human Evolution. The Advance Release version contains some – but not all – transcripts of talks given at the Congress. The Advance Release version does not contain presentation slides and images.

Version 0.71a of the Congress Proceedings was edited by Dr. Randal A. Koene (randal.a.koene @ carboncopies.org).

Contents

1. Acknowledgements
2. Dmitry Itskov (Foreword) -- GF2045: On the Path to a New Evolutionary Strategy
3. Dr. Randal A. Koene (Review) -- Global Future 2045: Towards a New Strategy for Human Evolution
4. Dr. Peter H. Diamandis -- Intelligent Self-directed Evolution Drives Mankind's Metamorphosis into an Immortal Planetary Meta-intelligence
5. Dr. Jose Carmena & Dr. Michel Maharbiz -- Brain Control of Prosthetic Devices: The Road Ahead
6. Dr. Anders Sandberg -- Making Minds Morally: the Research Ethics of Brain Emulation
7. Dr. Natasha Vita-More -- Substrate Autonomous, Networked Avatar Bodies by Design
8. Ray Kurzweil -- Immortality by 2045
9. Dr. Theodore Berger -- Engineering Memories: A Cognitive Neural Prosthesis for Restoring and Enhancing Memory Function
10. Dr. Ed Boyden -- Tools for Analyzing and Engineering the Brain
11. Dr. George Church -- Bionanotech for extending Moore's Law, the BRAIN project I/O & human genome engineering
12. Dr. Randal A. Koene -- Whole Brain Emulation: Reverse Engineering a Mind [video]
13. Dr. Ken Hayworth -- Preserving and Mapping the Brain's Connectome
14. Dr. Amit Goswami -- Consciousness and the Quantum: Science, Psychology and Spirituality
15. Program of the International Global Future 2045 Congress & Speaker Biographical Abstracts