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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782189103321

Autore

Goertzel Ben

Titolo

The path to posthumanity [[electronic resource] ] : 21st century technology and its radical implications for mind, society and reality / / Ben Goertzel, Stephan Vladimir Bugaj

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bethesda, MD, : Academica Press, c2006

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (633 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BugajStephan Vladimir

Disciplina

303.48/3

Soggetti

Technology - Social aspects

Technological forecasting

Artificial intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF TABLES""; ""LIST OF FIGURES""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""PRELUDE PESSIMISTS FROM YEARS PAST""; ""CHAPTER 1 THE COMING CONVERGENCE""; ""CHAPTER 2 NEURAL NETS AND ARTIFICIAL BRAINS""; ""CHAPTER 3 THE CHALLENGE OF REAL AI1""; ""CHAPTER 4 NANOTECHNOLOGY GETS REAL""; ""CHAPTER 5 UPLOADING: LIBERATING MINDS FROM BRAINS""; ""CHAPTER 6 THE CYBORGIZATION OF HUMANITY""; ""CHAPTER 7 THE NEW GENETICS""; ""CHAPTER 8 THE QUEST FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL IMMORTALITY""; ""CHAPTER 9 CRYONICS COMES OF AGE""; ""CHAPTER 10 IN SEARCH OF THE UNIVERSAL EQUATION""

""CHAPTER 11 CURING POVERTY WITH COMPUTING?""""CHAPTER 12 EXTROPIAN ELITISM AND HUMANIST POSTHUMANISM""; ""CHAPTER 13 SONG FROM THE DIGITAL FOREST""; ""CHAPTER 14 MINDPLEXES""; ""CHAPTER 15 CREATING A POSITIVE TRANSCENSION""; ""SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""