Götterdämmerung - Copyright © Bill Hibbard 2001
Götterdämmerung
Dawn of the Human-made Gods
7 April 2001 draft
Table of Contents
A Symmetry
Part I. Humans will Create Super-intelligent Machines
Chapter 2. The Basics of Machine Intelligence
Machine Consciousness
The Right Question About Consciousness
Emotional Intelligence
Overview
Chapter 3. Knowledge and Tools
Computers as Tools
Computers are Changing the Way People Live
The Near Term Future of Computers
The Advent of Intelligent Machines
Emotional Relationships with Intelligent Machines
Robots
Chapter 4. Arguments Against the Possibility of Machine Intelligence
Penrose's Argument from Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
Searle's Chinese Room Argument
Dreyfus's Argument
Reasoning From Impossible Hypotheses
Brain Models
Learning
Emotions
Brain Structure
One Degree of Separation
A Higher Level of Consciousness
A God by Any Other Name
Life with God
The Omnis
Physical God
Student God
Evolving God
Mortal God
Genetic Manipulation
Emergent Mind?
Human Spiritual States of Consciousness
Rosy Scenario?
Part II. Super-intelligent Machines Must Love all Humans
Learning and Emotions Rather Than Laws
What is this Thing Called Love?
Mental Illness
Gods of War
Increasing Human Dependence
Privacy
Survival of the Fittest
One God or Many?
Society of Gods
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Human Moral Responsibility
Symbiosis
Chapter 8. Public Education and Control
Democracy
Public Education
Public Control
Economic Issues
Public Debate
Outlaws
Chapter 9. Visions of Machine Intelligence
Ray Kurzweil's Vision of Direct Brain Connections
Bill Joy's Warning
Neil Gershenfeld's Vision of Things that Think
Hans Moravec's Vision of Transcendent Minds
The Turing Chatterbox
James Martin's Vision of Alien Intelligence
The Global Brain Group
Chapter 10. Current and Future Human History
The End of History
The End of Science
The End of Nature
Frank Tipler's Vision of Immortality
Human Catastrophes
Chapter 11. The Ultimate Engineering Challenge
Failures
It's All About Us
Inventing God
Part III. Should Humans Become Super-intelligent Machines?
Chapter 12. Human Minds in Machine Brains
Mind Migration via Ray Kurweil's Nanobots
Hans Moravec's Exes
The Old Brain
Chapter 13. Humans Will Want to Become Super-Intelligent Machines
The Struggle for Recognition
The New "Great Equalizer"
Human Aspirations
Accelerating the Struggle
Human Immortality
A Better Life
A Cozy Heaven
The Dilemma
Chapter 14. Super-Intelligent Humans Must Love All Humans
Compatibility of Minds and Brains
Emotional Conversion
Public Policy
Buddha
Part IV. Conclusion
Götterdämmerung
African Chimpanzees Land on the Moon!
Chapter 16. Messages to the Future
A Message to Young People
A Message to the New Gods
Mathematical Abstractions of Computers
Penrose's Argument
A postscript file of the entire book suitable for printing
A 2500 word summary of the book in a Computer Graphics VisFiles column
For related publications, see the SSEC Machine Intelligence Project.