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Proposal: Dynamic Brain Switching As a Method to Maintain Consciousness During Mind Uploading

Peter June 23, 2014 11549 Views 2 Comments

Immortality has been a humanitarian dream since dawn of human history. Among all of the proposed methods for immortality, Biological Approaches to immortality (NBI) are argued to be more fruitful. However, mind uploading as the typical method for NBI has been challenged both from technical and philosophical aspects. This article is an attempt to address some of these challenges by emphasizing the...

Is it possible to build an artificial superintelligence without fully replicating the human brain ?

Peter May 19, 2014 10159 Views 10 Comments

The technological singularity requires the creation of an artificial superintelligence (ASI). But does that ASI need to be modelled on the human brain, or is it even necessary to be able to fully replicate the human brain and consciousness digitally in order to design an ASI ?

BioTrove Podcast: “Whole Brain Emulation”, Host Liz Parish interviews Randal Koene, Carbon Copies

Peter May 2, 2014 4860 Views 3 Comments

Special thanks to Alex Vollmer for his best effort to fix a sound problem that nearly ruined this podcast. The sound quality loss is outweighed by the fascinating quality of the conversation! In this podcast guest Randal A. Koene, Ph.D. neuroscientist, neuro-engineer and co-founder of Carboncopies discusses Whole Brain Emulation. You will learn about connectomics, neural mapping using molecular ...

Event: Mind Uploading — Saturday April 26, 2014 11:10 am to 12:30 pm Tucson Arizona

Peter April 24, 2014 4123 Views 3 Comments

2014 - Toward a Science of Consciousness The Tucson Conference - 20th Anniversary

Mind uploading won’t lead to immortality

Peter April 24, 2014 50220 Views 64 Comments

Uploading the content of one's mind, including one's personality, memories and emotions, into a computer may one day be possible, but it won't transfer our biological consciousness and won't make us immortal.

Video Friday: David Dalrymple – Project Nemaload

Peter March 21, 2014 4101 Views 2 Comments

Published on Mar 17, 2014 See http://nemaload.davidad.org/ http://www.33rdsquare.com/2013/02/dav… Also see talk at H+ @San Fran: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmHy1_…‎ Interview conducted in Oxford, UK – Dec 2012. Thanks to David Dalrymple for the interview, as well as Open Worm and Open Source Brain for some of the b-roll 🙂 Open Worm: http://www.openworm.org Open Source ...

Information Becoming Aware of Itself

Peter March 20, 2014 6839 Views 7 Comments

The network of neurons in our brains somehow grants us the conscious ability to learn and grow, so the pattern itself is self-optimizing.

Event: Hangout on Air: Our Final Invention – AI and the end of the human era

Peter January 23, 2014 6080 Views 2 Comments

The Hollywood cliché is that artificial intelligence will take over the world. Could this cliché soon become scientific reality, as AI matches then surpasses human intelligence?

Motorola Patents Electronic Telepathy

Peter January 14, 2014 9624 Views 7 Comments

How close are we to real workable electronic telepathy?

MIND UPLOADING AND CYLON PHILOSOPHY

Peter December 17, 2013 6438 Views 8 Comments

Suppose it were possible to build an artificial brain which was, essentially, a copy of an existing brain. Yours, for example. If consciousness is reducible to the form and functions of the brain (to put it another way, if consciousness is what the brain does) then the artificial brain would likewise generate consciousness. But now the question arises: Just whose consciousness is it?