Dilettante

One day a machine will blink into consciousness, and it will be human-kind’s crowing achievement. But it’s just wishful thinking to believe that artificial consciousness could let people alive today escape death by uploading, their minds. By Glenn Zorpette

Special Report on FUTURE of Technology & Consciousness, IEEE SPECTRUM MAGAZINE, 06.2008

SINGULARITY (Wikipedia): The technological singularity is a hypothesised point in the future variously characterized by the technological creation of self-improving intelligence, unprecedentedly rapid technological progress, or some combination of the two. [ More : http://mindstalk.net/vinge/vinge-sing.html]

ONLINE ARTICLES of SPECTRUM IEEE : http://spectrum.ieee.org/singularity

SINGULARITY People [ Theories on Consciousness ] :

Raymond Kurzweil,

Hans Moravec,

Nick Bostrom,

Vernor Vinge,

Eliezer Yudkowsky,

Christof Koch,

Kevin Kelly,

Bill Joy,

Marvin Minsky,

Daniel Denett,

Rodney Brooks,

Jaron Lanier,

John Holland,

John Searle,

Roger Penrose