Intelligence Unbound

Russell Blackford is an Australian philosopher, literary critic, and author, based at the University of Newcastle, NSW. He is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Evolution and Technology, and his books include Freedom of Religion and the Secular State (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).Damien Broderick is an award-winning Australian science and fiction writer, editor and critical theorist. He has written or edited some 60 books, including The Spike (revised, ed. 2002), the first full-length treatment of the technological Singularity, and Year Million (ed. 2008), about the deep future.

• Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction I: Machines of Loving Grace (Let’s Hope) 1Damien BroderickIntroduction II: Bring on the Machines 11Russell Blackford1 How Conscience Apps and Caring Computers will Illuminate and Strengthen Human Morality 26James J. Hughes2 Threshold Leaps in Advanced Artificial Intelligence 35Michael Anissimov3 Who Knows Anything about Anything about AI? 46Stuart Armstrong and Seán ÓhÉigeartaigh4 Nine Ways to Bias Open-Source Artificial General Intelligence Toward Friendliness 61Ben Goertzel and Joel Pitt5 Feasible Mind Uploading 90Randal A. Koene6 Uploading: A Philosophical Analysis 102David J. Chalmers7 Mind Uploading: A Philosophical Counter-Analysis 119Massimo Pigliucci8 If You Upload, Will You Survive? 131Joseph Corabi and Susan Schneider9 On the Prudential Irrationality of Mind Uploading 146Nicholas Agar10 Uploading and Personal Identity 161Mark Walker11 Whole Brain Emulation: Invasive vs. Non-Invasive Methods 178Naomi Wellington12 The Future of Identity: Implications, Challenges, and Complications of Human/Machine Consciousness 193Kathleen Ann Goonan13 Practical Implications of Mind Uploading 201Joe Strout14 The Values and Directions of Uploaded Minds 212Nicole Olson15 The Enhanced Carnality of Post-Biological Life 222Max More16 Qualia Surfing 231Richard Loosemore17 Design of Life Expansion and the Human Mind 240Natasha Vita-More18 Against Immortality: Why Death is Better than the Alternative 248Iain Thomson and James Bodington19 The Pinocchio Syndrome and the Prosthetic Impulse 263Victor Grech20 Being Nice to Software Animals and Babies 279Anders Sandberg21 What Will It Be Like To Be an Emulation? 298Robin HansonAfterword 310Linda MacDonald GlennIndex 321

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