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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 sophisticatedexploration 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 mindsand of the convergence of humans and machinesto 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

    Trade Review

    "As can be seen from my comments for story ideas, this book is also a ripe ground to get your imagination working and if you want to be involved in writing the next generation of SF stories, definitely deserves a read." (SFCrowsnest.org.uk, 1 September 2014)



    Table of Contents

    Notes on Contributors ix

    Introduction I: Machines of Loving Grace (Let’s Hope) 1
    Damien Broderick

    Introduction II: Bring on the Machines 11
    Russell Blackford

    1 How Conscience Apps and Caring Computers will Illuminate and Strengthen Human Morality 26
    James J. Hughes

    2 Threshold Leaps in Advanced Artificial Intelligence 35
    Michael Anissimov

    3 Who Knows Anything about Anything about AI? 46
    Stuart Armstrong and Seán ÓhÉigeartaigh

    4 Nine Ways to Bias Open-Source Artificial General Intelligence Toward Friendliness 61
    Ben Goertzel and Joel Pitt

    5 Feasible Mind Uploading 90
    Randal A. Koene

    6 Uploading: A Philosophical Analysis 102
    David J. Chalmers

    7 Mind Uploading: A Philosophical Counter-Analysis 119
    Massimo Pigliucci

    8 If You Upload, Will You Survive? 131
    Joseph Corabi and Susan Schneider

    9 On the Prudential Irrationality of Mind Uploading 146
    Nicholas Agar

    10 Uploading and Personal Identity 161
    Mark Walker

    11 Whole Brain Emulation: Invasive vs. Non-Invasive Methods 178
    Naomi Wellington

    12 The Future of Identity: Implications, Challenges, and Complications of Human/Machine Consciousness 193
    Kathleen Ann Goonan

    13 Practical Implications of Mind Uploading 201
    Joe Strout

    14 The Values and Directions of Uploaded Minds 212
    Nicole Olson

    15 The Enhanced Carnality of Post-Biological Life 222
    Max More

    16 Qualia Surfing 231
    Richard Loosemore

    17 Design of Life Expansion and the Human Mind 240
    Natasha Vita-More

    18 Against Immortality: Why Death is Better than the Alternative 248
    Iain Thomson and James Bodington

    19 The Pinocchio Syndrome and the Prosthetic Impulse 263
    Victor Grech

    20 Being Nice to Software Animals and Babies 279
    Anders Sandberg

    21 What Will It Be Like To Be an Emulation? 298
    Robin Hanson

    Afterword 310
    Linda MacDonald Glenn

    Index 321

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/08/2014
      ISBN13: 9781118736289, 978-1118736289
      ISBN10: 1118736281
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 sophisticatedexploration 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 mindsand of the convergence of humans and machinesto 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

        Trade Review

        "As can be seen from my comments for story ideas, this book is also a ripe ground to get your imagination working and if you want to be involved in writing the next generation of SF stories, definitely deserves a read." (SFCrowsnest.org.uk, 1 September 2014)



        Table of Contents

        Notes on Contributors ix

        Introduction I: Machines of Loving Grace (Let’s Hope) 1
        Damien Broderick

        Introduction II: Bring on the Machines 11
        Russell Blackford

        1 How Conscience Apps and Caring Computers will Illuminate and Strengthen Human Morality 26
        James J. Hughes

        2 Threshold Leaps in Advanced Artificial Intelligence 35
        Michael Anissimov

        3 Who Knows Anything about Anything about AI? 46
        Stuart Armstrong and Seán ÓhÉigeartaigh

        4 Nine Ways to Bias Open-Source Artificial General Intelligence Toward Friendliness 61
        Ben Goertzel and Joel Pitt

        5 Feasible Mind Uploading 90
        Randal A. Koene

        6 Uploading: A Philosophical Analysis 102
        David J. Chalmers

        7 Mind Uploading: A Philosophical Counter-Analysis 119
        Massimo Pigliucci

        8 If You Upload, Will You Survive? 131
        Joseph Corabi and Susan Schneider

        9 On the Prudential Irrationality of Mind Uploading 146
        Nicholas Agar

        10 Uploading and Personal Identity 161
        Mark Walker

        11 Whole Brain Emulation: Invasive vs. Non-Invasive Methods 178
        Naomi Wellington

        12 The Future of Identity: Implications, Challenges, and Complications of Human/Machine Consciousness 193
        Kathleen Ann Goonan

        13 Practical Implications of Mind Uploading 201
        Joe Strout

        14 The Values and Directions of Uploaded Minds 212
        Nicole Olson

        15 The Enhanced Carnality of Post-Biological Life 222
        Max More

        16 Qualia Surfing 231
        Richard Loosemore

        17 Design of Life Expansion and the Human Mind 240
        Natasha Vita-More

        18 Against Immortality: Why Death is Better than the Alternative 248
        Iain Thomson and James Bodington

        19 The Pinocchio Syndrome and the Prosthetic Impulse 263
        Victor Grech

        20 Being Nice to Software Animals and Babies 279
        Anders Sandberg

        21 What Will It Be Like To Be an Emulation? 298
        Robin Hanson

        Afterword 310
        Linda MacDonald Glenn

        Index 321

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