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EVOLUTION. “Remarkably, even though informative nucleic acid is absent, prions may undergo rapid adaptation and evolution in cloned cells and upon crossing the species barrier.” https://lnkd.in/d93kJqW View in LinkedIn

THE LOGIC. “(i) Evolution produced human-level intelligence; (ii) If evolution produced human-level intelligence, then we can produce AI (before long); (iii) Absent defeaters, there will be AI (before long).” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

THE HOPE. “If a system in our world duplicates not only our outputs but our internal computational structure, then it will duplicate the important internal aspects of mentality too.” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

MACHINE VIEW. “Every organ of the body appears to be a machine: that is, a complex system comprised of law-governed parts interacting in a law-governed way. The brain is no exception.’ https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

IMITATION QUEST. “Hubert Dreyfus (1972) and Roger Penrose (1994) have argued that human cognitive activity can never be emulated by any computational machine. John Searle (1980) and Ned Block (1981) have argued that even if we can emulate the human brain, it does not follow that the emulation itself has a mind or is intelligent. I have argued elsewhere that all of these objections fail.’ https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

MORE CHALMERS. “(i) The human brain is a machine; (ii) We will have the capacity to emulate this machine (before long). (iii) If we emulate this machine, there will be AI; (iv) Absent defeaters, there will be AI (before long).” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

PROF CHALMERS: "1. There will be AI (before long, absent defeaters); 2. If there is AI, there will be AI+ (soon after, absent defeaters); 3. If there is AI+, there will be AI++ (soon after, absent defeaters); 4. There will be AI++ (before too long, absent defeaters)." https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn

DAVID CHALMERS. "He is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University. He is also Professor of Philosophy at New York University in the NYU Department of Philosophy. In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences." Rhodes Scholar and author. http://consc.net/chalmers/ View in LinkedIn

PREPAREDNESS. “So if there is even a small chance that there will be a singularity, we would do well to think about what forms it might take and whether there is anything we can do to influence the outcomes in a positive direction.” https://lnkd.in/e335knp View in LinkedIn