by Dan | Mar 9, 2019 | Digitized and Digested
“Sugar cubes” – Refers to the tiny hypothetical form that human mind uploads might take when they are condensed and stored. These small cubes of computational substrate would likely contain more than our human senses, memories, and consciousness...
by Dan | Jul 15, 2018 | Digitized and Digested, Glossary
“Digitized and digested” is the future scenario which I consider to be a likely long-term future for humanity, should we survive the initial growing pains of the singularity. By long-term, I could mean 100 or 10,000 years – though the real timeframe...
by Dan | May 28, 2018 | Controlling Intelligent Substrate, Creating or Enhancing Consciousness, Digitized and Digested, Exploring the End Game, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Managing the Transhuman Transition, Transhuman Transition
Human nature has always been to gain control over the physical world — both in maximizing its output for our benefit (farming, mining, etc), and in lessening the risks it poses to human life and wellbeing (medicine, construction, etc). This same drive for control...
by Dan | Apr 24, 2013 | Amoral Solipsism, Creating or Enhancing Consciousness, Digitized and Digested, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Managing the Transhuman Transition, Transhuman Transition
Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near peaked my interest when he posited his reasoning for why there is likely no intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. By a mere matter of odds, most of us assume (likely myself included) that there simply must be some...
