We’ve been imprinted by all manner of popular culture around the dangers of artificial intelligence – from Skynet’s Terminator to the Matrix. AI represents a beloved trope of science fiction, whether as helper, adversary, tyrant, or in the marriage/evolution of humanity. Although many think that a human equivalent artificial intelligence…
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Transhumanism
If there’s any technological advance that represents the compete change in all aspects of culture, economics, politics, etc., it’s the ability to synthesize memory into and out of a human being. Since every cell in our bodies is “new” (90% within a year, the rest not long after), the one…
The of “cyborgs” often evokes a visceral kind of response from people – whether a carryover from movie antagonists or the seeming rejection of that which makes us human. Although some dictionaries would define cyborgs as a fictional fusion between human and machine to extend [physical] abilities through machine convergence,…
I remember fondly the endless afternoons of cafe-debate from when I was young: How can we know we’re not just brains in jars? Is the universe an illusion? This was before the days of carrying the internet around in your pocket – we “worked” at fumbling through the answers back…