linkedin post 2020-05-06 00:35:11
UPLOADED MIND. "But utility fogs may have an even more radical application than that — there's also the potential for people to upload their minds directly into this nano-infused cloud. "You could very realistically imagine uploading into it ... and then you'd be this sort of formless data amoeba controlling this formless physical amoeba and take any size or form you wanted." http://io9.com/5932880/how-utility-fogs-could-become-the-technology-that-changes-the-world View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-05-08 03:46:59
THE ELEMENT OF EXPERIENCE. “The question Turing asked is “Can machines think?” But ultimately it’s an operational test for intelligence, not for consciousness. But the Turing test would not tell me if the machine experiences anything.” http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-06-09/scientists-are-starting-worry-about-conscious-machines-movie-transcendence View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-05-08 03:45:28
CONSCIOUS UNIVERSE. “I think consciousness, like mass, is a fundamental property of the universe. I am not saying consciousness is a magic soul. It is something physical. Consciousness is always supervening onto the physical. But it takes a particular type of hardware to instantiate it.” http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-06-09/scientists-are-starting-worry-about-conscious-machines-movie-transcendence View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-05-08 03:44:23
ELECTRONIC CONSCIOUSNESS. “In 100 years, you might be able to simulate consciousness on a computer. But it won’t experience anything. Nada. It will be black inside. It will have no experience whatsoever, even though it may have our intelligence and our ability to speak.” http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-06-09/scientists-are-starting-worry-about-conscious-machines-movie-transcendence View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-05-08 03:42:51
CONSCIOUSNESS. “I gave a lecture [last week] at MIT about Integrated Information Theory, developed by Giulio Tononi at the University of Wisconsin. This is a theory that makes a very clear prediction: it says that consciousness is a property of complex systems that have a particular “cause-effect” repertoire.” http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-06-09/scientists-are-starting-worry-about-conscious-machines-movie-transcendence View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-05-09 04:53:22
LEADING IDEAS. “Two major hypotheses have been proposed to explain the evolution of separate sexes. The first hypothesis is that there are trade-offs between male and female function, such as when mating displays enhance male fitness but decrease female fitness. In this case, individuals can gain reproductive advantages by specializing as a male or female.” http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001899 View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-05-08 03:42:01
LOSS OF CONTROL. “If we make machines that are much smarter than human beings...then it’s very difficult to predict what such a system would do and how to control it.” (Prof Stuart Russell). http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-06-09/scientists-are-starting-worry-about-conscious-machines-movie-transcendence View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-05-09 04:52:10
HYPOTHESIS 7. “Finally, having two mating types or sexes may serve to enable organisms to know when they are diploid, as they will be heterozygous rather than homozygous for sex determinants contributed by each haploid parent.” http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1749461315000391 View in LinkedIn