Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds

- Appearning in paperback July/August 2014 -

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Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds

Edited by Russel Blackford & Damien Broderick

Contributing Authors include:

• James Hughes - How Conscience Apps and Caring Computers will Illuminate and Strengthen Human Morality

• Michael Anissimov - Threshold Leaps in Advanced Artificial Intelligence

• Stuart Armstrong and Sean OhEigeartaigh - Who Knows Anything about Anything about AI?

• Ben Goertzel and Joel Pitt - Nine Ways to Bias Open-Source Artificial General Intellignece Toward Friendliness

• Randal A. Koene - Feasible Mind Uploading

• David J. Chalmers - Uploading: A Philosophical Analysis

• Massimo Pigliucci - Mind Uploading: A Philosophical Counter-Analysis

• Joseph Corabi and Susan Schneider - If You Upload, Will You Survive?

• Nicholas Agar - On the Prudential Irrationality of Mind Uploading

• Mark Walker - Uploading and Personal Identity

• Naomi Wellington - Whole Brain Emulation: Invasive vs. Non-Invasive Methods

• Kathleen Ann Goonan - The Future of Identity: Implications, Challenges, and Complications of Human/Machine Consciousness

• Joe Strout - Practical Implications of Mind Uploading

• Nicole Olsen - The Values and Directions of Uploaded Minds

• Max More - The Enhanced Carnality of Post-Biological Life

• Richard Loosemore - Qualia Surfing

• Natasha Vita-More - Design of Life Expansion and the Human Mind

• Ian Thomson and James Bodington - Against Immortality: Why Death is Better than the Alternative

• Victor Grech - The Pinocchio Syndrome and the Prosthetic Impulse

• Anders Sandberg - Being Nice to Software Animals and Babies

• Robin Hanson - What Will it Be Like To Be an Emulation?

• Linda MacDonald Glenn - Afterword

Description:

Intelligence Unbound explores the prospects, promises, and potential dangers of machine intelligence and uploaded minds in a collection of state-of-the-art essays from internationally recognized philosophers, AI researchers, science fiction authors, and theorists.

• Compelling and intellectually sophisticated exploration of the latest thinking on Artificial Intelligence and machine minds

• Features contributions from an international cast of philosophers, Artificial Intelligence researchers, science fiction authors, and more

• Offers current, diverse perspectives on machine intelligence and uploaded minds, emerging topics of tremendous interest

• Illuminates the nature and ethics of tomorrow’s machine minds—and of the convergence of humans and machines—to consider the pros and cons of a variety of intriguing possibilities

• Considers classic philosophical puzzles as well as the latest topics debated by scholars

• Covers a wide range of viewpoints and arguments regarding the prospects of uploading and machine intelligence, including proponents and skeptics, pros and cons

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