Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds by Blackford, Russell

Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781118736418)

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Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds by Blackford, Russell

Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds

$99.95
Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds by Blackford, Russell

Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds

$99.95
Format: Hardcover
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Intelligence Unbound explores the prospects, promises, and potential dangers of machine intelligence and uploaded minds in a collection of state-of-the-art essays from internationally recognized philosophers, AI researchers, science fiction authors, and theorists.

  • Compelling and intellectually sophisticated exploration of the latest thinking on Artificial Intelligence and machine minds
  • Features contributions from an international cast of philosophers, Artificial Intelligence researchers, science fiction authors, and more
  • Offers current, diverse perspectives on machine intelligence and uploaded minds, emerging topics of tremendous interest
  • Illuminates the nature and ethics of tomorrow's machine minds--and of the convergence of humans and machines--to consider the pros and cons of a variety of intriguing possibilities
  • Considers classic philosophical puzzles as well as the latest topics debated by scholars
  • Covers a wide range of viewpoints and arguments regarding the prospects of uploading and machine intelligence, including proponents and skeptics, pros and cons


Author: Russell Blackford
ISBN-10: 1118736419
ISBN-13: 9781118736418
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 08/18/2014
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.90d
By Russell Blackford
By Russell Blackford
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Russell Blackford is an Australian philosopher, literary critic, and author, based at the University of Newcastle, NSW. He is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Evolution and Technology, and his books include Freedom of Religion and the Secular State (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).

Damien Broderick is an award-winning Australian science and fiction writer, editor and critical theorist. He has written or edited some 60 books, including The Spike (revised, ed. 2002), the first full-length treatment of the technological Singularity, and Year Million (ed. 2008), about the deep future.

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