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.
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