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, 2012). 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.

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction I: Machines of Loving Grace (Let's Hope)
1

Damien Broderick

Introduction II: Bring on the Machines 11

Russell Blackford

1 How Conscience Apps and Caring Computers will Illuminate and
Strengthen Human Morality 26

James J. Hughes

2 Threshold Leaps in Advanced Artificial Intelligence 35

Michael Anissimov

3 Who Knows Anything about Anything about AI? 46

Stuart Armstrong and Seán ÓhÉigeartaigh

4 Nine Ways to Bias Open-Source Artificial General Intelligence
Toward Friendliness 61

Ben Goertzel and Joel Pitt

5 Feasible Mind Uploading 90

Randal A. Koene

6 Uploading: A Philosophical Analysis 102

David J. Chalmers

7 Mind Uploading: A Philosophical Counter-Analysis 119

Massimo Pigliucci

8 If You Upload, Will You Survive? 131

Joseph Corabi and Susan Schneider

9 On the Prudential Irrationality of Mind Uploading 146

Nicholas Agar

10 Uploading and Personal Identity 161

Mark Walker

11 Whole Brain Emulation: Invasive vs. Non-Invasive Methods
178

Naomi Wellington

12 The Future of Identity: Implications, Challenges, and
Complications of Human/Machine Consciousness 193

Kathleen Ann Goonan

13 Practical Implications of Mind Uploading 201

Joe Strout

14 The Values and Directions of Uploaded Minds 212

Nicole Olson

15 The Enhanced Carnality of Post-Biological Life 222

Max More

16 Qualia Surfing 231

Richard Loosemore

17 Design of Life Expansion and the Human Mind 240

Natasha Vita-More

18 Against Immortality: Why Death is Better than the Alternative
248

Iain Thomson and James Bodington

19 The Pinocchio Syndrome and the Prosthetic Impulse 263

Victor Grech

20 Being Nice to Software Animals and Babies 279

Anders Sandberg

21 What Will It Be Like To Be an Emulation? 298

Robin Hanson

Afterword 310

Linda MacDonald Glenn

Index 321

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