About Me  My Photo  Tuesday, August 24, 2010  Singularity Summit
AU - program  Voila! The program for the Singularity Summit AU,
which is now just two or three weeks away. The program is
subject to fine-tuning but gives a good indication.  As you'll
see, abstracts of papers have been provided, including my own:
“Survival Beyond the Flesh” – Mind uploading would involve the
use of an artificial substrate – some kind of advanced
computational system – to emulate the activities of a biological
brain. Proponents of uploading typically imagine this as a way
to achieve survival beyond the flesh (and perhaps other
advantages, such as greatly enhanced speed of thought and/or the
opportunity to extend cognitive capacities in multiple ways).
The main advantages proposed for mind uploading presuppose that
the same individual somehow “occupies”, or is instantiated by,
both the biological brain (or the entire biological organism)
and the computational system. But this is problematic. The
problem can be thought of in ter