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Predictions from Philosophy?
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How analytical philosophers could help forecast our technological future. Argues that academic philosophers can do something useful if they become scientific generalists, polymaths, with a thorough grounding in several sciences. Also contains specific remarks about the
Fermi paradox, superintelligence, sociological attractors and other things. [Colloquia Manilana (PDCIS), 2000, Vol. 7]
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What to say to the Skeptic
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A discussion, in dialog form, of the position of the radical skeptic, who doubts that any inductive knowledge is possible. Very early work.
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Human Reproductive Cloning from the Perspective of the Future
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Boy have I been asked the cloning question too many times! But here is a statement of 27 Dec 2002.
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Heart of the Matter, BBC1 Television
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Script: "Against Aging". (March 2000).
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The Epistemological Mystique of Self-Locating Belief
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Some puzzling problems related to self-location
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The Future of Identity
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On the future of "human identity" in relation to information and communication technologies, automation and robotics, and biotechnology and medicine.
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[w/ Anders Sandberg] [Report, Commissioned by the UK's Government Office for Science, 2011]
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Recent Developments in the Ethics, Science, and Politics of Life-Extension
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A review/commentary on The Fountain of Youth (Oxford University Press, 2004).
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[Ageing Horizons, No. 3 (2005): 28–33] [html] [pdf]
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Recognizing the Diversity of Cognitive Enhancements
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Short article on the bioethics of cognitive enhancement.
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[AJOB Neuroscience (11:4), Nov (2020): 250–253] [pdf]
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Dinosaurs, Dodos, Humans?
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Short article on existential risks.
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[Global Agenda, Feb (2006): 230–231; the annual publication of the World Economic Forum] [pdf]
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Cortical Integration
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Possible Solutions to the Binding and Linking Problems in Perception, Reasoning and Long Term Memory. (My MSc-thesis from 1996 in computational neuroscience on the problem of finding neurologically plausible dynamical binding mechanisms in the brain for producing and storing structured representations.) [Consciousness and Cognition, 2000, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 39S-40S]
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Understanding Quine's Theses of Indeterminacy
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My old MA-thesis in philosophy. Boring.
[Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, 2005, Vol. 9, March]
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Observational Selection Effects and Probability
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Doctoral dissertation, which presented the first mathematically explicit "observation selection theory". It has now been transfigured into a book, which I'd recommend instead.
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What is transhumanism?
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An obsolete introduction but with a more recent postscript. [Earlier version in Sawaal, August 2000; reprinted in Doctor Tandy's First Guide to Life Extension and Transhumanity, 2001, Ria University Press, Palo Alto]
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Some older online interviews
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Nanotechnology now
(2001) | Resonance Publications (2000)
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