Google Tech Talks. May 30, 2007. Dr. Ben Goertzel.
The following video is a talk from Dr. Ben Goertzel (CEO of Novamente) about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). In the talk the discipline of AGI is introduced, its application in the domain of virtual words is justified, and the Novamente AI engine is briefly described.
Lifenaut Project. Eternalizing Consciousness using a virtual avatar
A talk with Nick Mayer, Manager of Cyberbiological Systems at Terasem Movement Foundation.
The goal of the Lifenaut Project is to create an automated, user-friendly, and web accessible system that allows individuals around the globe to create significantly detailed personality archives.
I haven’t read this book (yet), but I think it could be interesting to some extend as it tries to cover the biophysical and computational roots of consciousness. From a quick look at the index and some leaf through it seems that the authors are proposing a quantum mechanics explanation for consciousness (however, ...
As the theory about consciousness proposed by Douglas Hofstadter was being discussed here in Conscious-Robots.com forums and elsewhere, I decided to challenge again my genuinely engineering and scientific intellect with another dangerous incursion into philosophy. Being a researcher in the field of consciousness this is actually a must, given the multidisciplinary nature of the study of consciousness.
This is not a book on consciousness but there is no doubt that memory is a fundamental component of mind. That’s the reason why I am also interested in the research of memory in mammals and that’s why I read this book by Steven Rose: The Making of Memory. From Molecules to Mind. (ISBN: 0099449986. 1992. Actually my copy is a revised edition published by Vintage in 2003).
Artificial General Intelligence: Now is the Time
Lifenaut Project. Eternalizing Consciousness using a virtual avatar
I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter.
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