This book discusses what artificial intelligence can truly achieve: Can robots really be conscious? Can we merge with AI, as tech leaders like Elon Musk and Ray Kurzweil suggest? Is the mind just a program? Examining these issues, the author proposes ways we can test for machine…
"Humans may not be Earth's most intelligent beings for much longer: the world champions of chess, Go, and Jeopardy! are now all AIs. Given the rapid pace of progress in AI, many predict that it could advance to human-level intelligence within the next several decades. From there…
Scientific advances in genetics, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence signal the end of our traditional concept of the human being. The most vigorous movements dealing with this ongoing crisis of humanism are posthumanism and transhumanism. While posthumanism reconsiders wh…
Scientific advances in genetics, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence signal the end of our traditional concept of the human being. The most vigorous movements dealing with this ongoing crisis of humanism are posthumanism and transhumanism. While posthumanism reconsiders wh…
"Children of God would try to play God" -- Mormonisms -- Transhumanism -- Mormon transhumanism -- Kolob runs on Domo -- Disciple, belief, and speculative religion -- Freezing, burying, burning -- "As if awakening from a night's sleep" -- Worlds without end -- Queer polygamy -- P…
As a result of the fast-developing array of human enhancement therapies and technologies - commonly subsumed under the term "transhumanism"--The "flesh and blood" body of the human species may be significantly modified in the immediate future, or eventually eliminated, if some h…
