This book is designed to become a foundational text for the new science of AI safety
engineering. While specific predictions regarding the consequences of an intelligence …

A rigorous case for the primacy of mind in nature, from philosophy to neuroscience,
psychology and physics. The Idea of the World offers a grounded alternative to the frenzy of …

Transhumanism, as social movement and ideology, pushes for the technoscientific
transcendence of the limits of the human. Some within the movement have also adopted …

What is the ultimate destiny of our universe? That is the striking question addressed by
James Gardner in The Intelligent Universe. Traditionally, scientists (and Robert Frost) have …

Based on current and projected breakthroughs in biological, genetic, and digital
technologies—and their possible convergences—contemporary transhumanism confronts …

The paper attempts to describe the space of possible mind designs by first equating all
minds to software. Next it proves some interesting properties of the mind design space such …

This paper explores the landscape of potential mind architectures by initially conceptualizing
all minds as software. Through rigorous analysis, we establish intriguing properties of this …

In the opening chapter of The Crooked Timber of Humanity, British intellectual historian
Isaiah Berlin famously observed that two factors, above all others, shaped human history in …

Based on current and projected breakthroughs in biological, genetic, and digital
technologies—and their possible convergences—contemporary transhumanism confronts …

O estadunidense Edward Fredkin, um pioneiro na área de computação, é conhecido por
defender a hipótese do mundo natural ser fundamentalmente um sistema de computação …