Tagtranshumanism
Claim: Yes, you can upload your brain
Fine print: They might have to kill you first
Attend your own funeral!
It’s easy if you upload your consciousness to the cloud, says futurist
Can we cheat death by uploading ourselves as virtual AI entities?
Transhumanism is a curious blip in a science and technology culture in which it is otherwise axiomatic that humans are merely evolved animalsCheating death is a serious goal of some transhumanists. Futurist Ray Kurzweil (now a Google innovator) calls such a digital fate the Singularity, as in his book, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Published in 2006, it is still in the top ten in artificial intelligence and biotechnology. In 2017, he announced, 2029 is the consistent date I have predicted for when an AI will pass a valid Turing test and therefore achieve human levels of intelligence. I have set the date 2045 for the ‘Singularity’ which is when we will multiply our effective intelligence a billion fold by merging with the intelligence we have created. It sounds rather like avoiding death by becoming something that isn’t actually alive. Read More ›