Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP Brain in a vat / John Pollock Are you in a computer simulation? / Nick Bostrom Excerpt from The republic / Plato Excerpt from The meditations in first philosophy / Rene Descartes The matrix as metaphysics / Dave Chalmers Where am I? / Daniel Dennett Personal identity / Eric Olsen Divided minds and the nature of persons / Derek Parfit Where am I? What am I? / Ray Kurzweil Free will and determinism in the world of Minority report / Michael Huemer The book of life : a thought experiment / Alvin Goldman Robot dreams / Isaac Asimov A brain speaks / Andy Clark Computing machinery and intelligence / Alan Turing The mind as software to brain / Ned Block Minds, brains, programs / John Searle Cyborgs unplugged / Andy Clark Consciousness in human and robot minds / Daniel Dennett Superintelligence and singularity / Ray Kurzweil Brave new world / Aldous Huxley Man on the moon / George Annas Transhumanist frequently asked questions / Nick Bostrom Mindscan : transcending and enhancing the human brain / Susan Schneider The doomsday argument / John Leslie Asimov's three laws of robotics and machine metaethics / Susan Anderson Ethical issues in advanced intelligence / Nick Bostrom A sound of thunder / Ray Bradbury The paradox of time travel / David Lewis The quantum physics of time travel / Michael Lockwood and David Deutsch Miracles and wonders : science fiction as epistemology / Richard Hanley. |
