Virtually Human: The Promise-and the Peril-of Digital Immortality Book PDF, ePub eBook

Join our eBook service for unlimited books & audiobooks. Get a free 7 day subscription! ↓↓↓↓↓


Book Descriptions:
Virtually Human explores what the not-too-distant future will look like when cyberconsciousness—simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology—becomes part of our daily lives. Meet Bina48, the world's most sentient robot, commissioned by Martine Rothblatt and created by Hanson Robotics. Bina48 is a nascent Mindclone of Martine's wife that can engage in conversation, answer questions, and even have spontaneous thoughts that are derived from multimedia data in a Mindfile created by the real Bina. If you're active on Twitter or Facebook, share photos through Instagram, or blogging regularly, you're already on your way to creating a Mindfile—a digital database of your thoughts, memories, feelings, and opinions that is essentially a back-up copy of your mind. Soon, this Mindfile can be made conscious with special software—Mindware—that mimics the way human brains organize information, create emotions and achieve self-awareness. This may sound like science-fiction A.I. (artificial intelligence), but the nascent technology already exists. Thousands of software engineers across the globe are working to create cyberconsciousness based on human consciousness and the Obama administration recently announced plans to invest in a decade-long Brain Activity Map project. Virtually Human is the only book to examine the ethical issues relating to cyberconsciousness and Rothblatt, with a Ph.D. in medical ethics, is uniquely qualified to lead the dialogue.

Virtually Human: The Promise-and the Peril-of Digital Immortality by Martine Rothblatt PhD

From reader reviews:

Michael Colburn:

The book Virtually Human: The Promise-and the Peril-of Digital Immortality can give more knowledge and information about everything you want. Why must we leave the great thing like a book Virtually Human: The Promise-and the Peril-of Digital Immortality? Wide variety you have a different opinion about reserve. But one aim this book can give many details for us. It is absolutely right. Right now, try to closer together with your book. Knowledge or details that you take for that, you may give for each other; you can share all of these. Book Virtually Human: The Promise-and the Peril-of Digital Immortality has simple shape however, you know: it has great and massive function for you. You can seem the enormous world by wide open and read a publication. So it is very wonderful.

Jamie Lundquist:

Reading a e-book tends to be new life style within this era globalization. With reading through you can get a lot of information that will give you benefit in your life. Having book everyone in this world could share their idea. Books can also inspire a lot of people. Lots of author can inspire all their reader with their story as well as their experience. Not only the story that share in the publications. But also they write about the data about something that you need example of this. How to get the good score toefl, or how to teach your young ones, there are many kinds of book that exist now. The authors on earth always try to improve their talent in writing, they also doing some analysis before they write to the book. One of them is this Virtually Human: The Promise-and the Peril-of Digital Immortality.

Vicky Gamez:

This Virtually Human: The Promise-and the Peril-of Digital Immortality is new way for you who has attention to look for some information because it relief your hunger of information. Getting deeper you into it getting knowledge more you know otherwise you who still having bit of digest in reading this Virtually Human: The Promise-and the Peril-of Digital Immortality can be the light food for yourself because the information inside this book is easy to get by means of anyone. These books create itself in the form that is reachable by anyone, that's why I mean in the e-book contact form. People who think that in book form make them feel tired even dizzy this publication is the answer. So you cannot find any in reading a publication especially this one. You can find actually looking for. It should be here for you. So , don't miss it! Just read this e-book kind for your better life and also knowledge.

Santos Conrad:

What is your hobby? Have you heard that will question when you got learners? We believe that that question was given by teacher to the students. Many kinds of hobby, Every person has different hobby. Therefore you know that little person just like reading or as reading become their hobby. You must know that reading is very important and book as to be the factor. Book is important thing to incorporate you knowledge, except your personal teacher or lecturer. You find good news or update regarding something by book. Different categories of books that can you go onto be your object. One of them is this Virtually Human: The Promise-and the Peril-of Digital Immortality.