[ExI] Book Review - Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality

Giulio Prisco giulio at gmail.com
Sun Mar 14 08:23:59 UTC 2010


Book Review - Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics,
Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality:

http://giulioprisco.blogspot.com/2010/03/book-review-apocalyptic-ai-visions-of.html

A very interesting book on transhumanism as a scientific religion.
Some list members will like it, but it may be very hard to swallow for
many others.

>From the publishers' site: "Description: Apocalyptic AI, the hope that
we might one day upload our minds into machines or cyberspace and live
forever, is a surprisingly wide-spread and influential idea, affecting
everything from the world view of online gamers to government research
funding and philosophical thought. In Apocalyptic AI, Robert Geraci
offers the first serious account of this "cyber-theology" and the
people who promote it..."



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