Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment offers authoritative, jargon-free essays and critical commentaries on accelerating technological progress and the notion of technological singularity. It focuses on conjectures about the intelligence explosion, transhumanism, and whole brain emulation. Recent years have seen a plethora of forecasts about the profound, disruptive impact that is likely to result from further progress in these areas. Many commentators however doubt the scientific rigor of these forecasts, rejecting them as speculative and unfounded. We therefore invited prominent computer scientists, physicists, philosophers, biologists, economists and other thinkers to assess the singularity hypotheses. Their contributions go beyond speculation, providing deep insights into the main issues and a balanced picture of the debate.
Singularity Hypotheses - A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment
David Pearce
Springer
2012
441 páginas
14h 42m
ISBN-13: 9783642325595
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David Pearce
David Pearce is a British vegan philosopher who promotes the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. Dave’s views are most prominently presented in <i>The Hedonistic Imperative</i> (1995), a manifesto in which he outlines how technologies such as genetic engineering, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and neurosurgery could potentially eliminate all forms of unpleasant experience. He predicts that our descendants will enjoy genetically preprogrammed bliss that is orders of magnitude richer than anything accessible today. In 1998, he cofounded — with Swedish polymath Nick Bostrom — the World Transhumanist Association (WTA). He also cofounded the Abolitionist Society in 2002 with Pablo Stafforini, Sean Henderson, and Jaime Savage, and serves as its honorary president. He is currently the director of BLTC Research. Dave serves on the editorial review board of Medical Hypotheses. He also runs a web hosting company which aims to help compassionate technophobes develop an online presence as painlessly as possible. But his main interest lies in the potential use of science to eradicate cruelty and suffering wherever they are found — and eventually, perhaps, the birth of true “paradise-engineering”. fonte: http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.david.pearce
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