[extropy-chat] "The Spike" - Raymond Kurzweil

[Adrian Tymes]

--- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury at aeiveos.com> wrote:
> In 1999 I got a chance to speak with Marvin Minsky
> directly for a few
> minutes at the A4M conference in Las Vegas.  I asked
> him about the
> concept of uploading.  He indicated that both he and
> Hans Moravec
> had come up with the concept independently.  As Hans
> documented
> one approach in "Mind Children" (circa 1988) and
> Vinge's first
> publication of the singularity concept was at a NASA
> conference
> in 1993 the concepts of uploading and the
> singularity are not
> inventions by Ray.

Doesn't the concept of replacing the brain's neurons
with artificial ones, one at a time, date back to
Turing?  This is one concept of uploading (and the
closest to reality, from what I've seen - even if it
is a fair ways off).