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The failures of modern day atheism
3 September 2010I’ve been meaning to post something for awhile and this is a topic that I felt was worth discussing. Some of the things I’m about to say I suspect many will disagree with, and by posting this I’m opening myself to attack; however I feel that brutal honestly allows us to address the problems in [...]
What duplicating or backing up your mind really means: Mind snapshots
9 July 2008Shortly after writing the The challenge of mind duplication/transfer post I went seeking others to chat with about this topic. I hoped on irc and had an interesting conversation in a neuroscience channel. It was a great conversation that lead to some very interesting possibilities being discussed. People typically think that duplicating the mind means [...]
Modeling Conciousness: what do we do with AI?
23 June 2008We’ve heard that AI will be the future and change our lives. We’ve seen movies where robots have human personalities and can interact with us as interact with each other. In order to achieve these “AI use cases” you must first understand what it means to be human and more specifically what mimicking our behavior [...]
The challenge of mind duplication/transfer
12 May 2008Others have discussed the concept of duplicating one’s mind or backing it up. Before copying a mind you first need to know 1. How (minor detail!) – While alive – After death 2. How for that organism – Human – Fish 3. The context of what is being duplicated – For the same organism – [...]
