A question of hardware capability? When can we expect the Singularity? What kind of hardware would be required for an artificial cortex? How far out into the future of Moore’s Law is such technology? The startling answer is that the artificial cortex, and thus the transition to a profoundly new historical era, is potentially much [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Building the Brain
Posted in Singularity, Technology on June 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Know thyself: personal identity, uploading, and duplicity
Posted in Conscious Identity, Mind Uploading on June 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The so called consciousness conundrum The future according to the Singularity posits a new age of wonders, and the promise of effective immortality through radical new technologies such as mind uploading and medical nanobots. The broad scope of augmentation and change these developments will enable is the basis for the concepts of Transhumanity and Posthumanity. [...]
Update: moving blog
Posted in Uncategorized on June 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in the process of porting this blog over to wordpress from blogger, largely due to accumulated frustration with blogger’s editor. I’m also preparing a larger volume of mainly Singularity related writings that i’ve accumulated over the last year into a more organized form for this site. The intro page is a good start.
