[ExI] My talk tonight at the Transhumanism and Spirituality Conference 2010

[Giulio Prisco]

The slides of my talk and the CA Resurrection movie:
http://giulioprisco.blogspot.com/2010/10/cosmic-visions-of-turing-church.html

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
> My talk tonight at the Transhumanism and Spirituality Conference 2010
> http://giulioprisco.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-talk-tonight-at-transhumanism-and.html
>
> Tonight I will give a talk at the Transhumanism and Spirituality
> Conference 2010:
> http://www.transhumanism-spirituality.org/
> The conference will explore the intersection of religion, science,
> spirituality and technology, from a transhumanist perspective.
> Transhumanism advocates the ethical use of technology to expand human
> capacities, and observes that if our rapid technological evolution
> continues to accelerate then humanity will become a new species before
> the end of the 21st century.
>
> I will give a talk on The Cosmic Visions of the Turing Church.
> Abstract: Following the Turing-Church conjecture, minds can be
> uploaded from biological brains to other computational substrates.
> Mind uploading research may achieve practical results within decades.
> Given the technology, humans may live indefinitely, colonizing the
> universe, and resurrecting the dead by "copying them to the future".
> Perhaps they will create synthetic realities inhabited by sentient
> minds; perhaps we are in a synthetic reality. These considerations
> parallel the tenets of many religions. The Turing Church will be a
> meta-religion, without central doctrine, characterized by common
> interest in the promised land where science and religion meet, science
> becomes religion, and religion becomes science.
>
> I will talk remotely to the audience at the University of Utah in Salt
> Lake City and to those who will watch the live stream of the
> conference. I wish to thank the organizers for setting up the live
> stream, this should be done for all conferences. This is the stream
> URL:
> http://www.scl.utah.edu/live_broadcast/index.shtml
> please come to watch all talks and participate in the discussions.
> After the talk I will post my slides here, and I understand that the
> videos of all talks will be available online after the conference.
>