LEADER 02477nam 2200541Ia 450 001 9910782189103321 005 20230207225533.0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000522631 035 $a(EBL)3110335 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000282701 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11228412 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000282701 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10317992 035 $a(PQKB)11547315 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3110335 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3110335 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10171154 035 $a(OCoLC)568029130 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000522631 100 $a20060320d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe path to posthumanity$b[electronic resource] $e21st century technology and its radical implications for mind, society and reality /$fBen Goertzel, Stephan Vladimir Bugaj 210 $aBethesda, MD $cAcademica Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (633 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-930901-95-X 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 606 $aTechnology$xSocial aspects 606 $aTechnological forecasting 606 $aArtificial intelligence 615 0$aTechnology$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aTechnological forecasting. 615 0$aArtificial intelligence. 676 $a303.48/3 700 $aGoertzel$b Ben$0726875 701 $aBugaj$b Stephan Vladimir$01558396 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782189103321 996 $aThe path to posthumanity$93822710 997 $aUNINA