From: Natasha Vita-More (natasha@natasha.cc)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 11:02:10 MST
Long time member of ExI Council of Advisors, our great friend and cohort in
futurism, Bart Kosko is on Art Bell. Check it out!
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/
Recap:
Bart Kosko (website), a professor at USC and expert in fuzzy logic, was the
guest on Monday night. Defining fuzzy logic as a "branch of machine
intelligence that tries to get computers to think like people think," Kosko
estimated that between 2015-2020 computers' processing power will equal or
exceed the human brain's.
Kosko said the 20th Century was about bringing the brain to the computer
chip, but that our new century will reverse the process and we will
introduce the chip to the brain. This will create possibilities for linking
neural networks that could facilitate new types of communication and art
forms that we can scarcely imagine now. In the nearer future Kosko
postulated intelligent agents that can advise or console us...cont.
Your New Brain is (Almost) Ready
Dr. Bart Kosko, the author of such books as Heaven in a Chip has pondered
what the future may hold for our species. In a symposium on the TV program
Closer to Truth, Kosko pointed out that while the human brain is a marvel
of natural biology, it has certain limitations. "We'll be re-engineering
the brain a piece at a time, initially with implants and other supplements
and ultimately engineering an outright replacement," he said.
Kosko sees our evolution going in the direction of transferring our
consciousness into increasingly advanced computer chips which would allow
people to live theoretically forever. "Just take the example of your past,"
he said. "You can't remember a great deal of what you did three years ago.
But if you had the detailed richness of that experience wholly embedded in
a chip, you could not only relive it at will, you could edit it...cont.
Natasha Vita-More
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President, Extropy Institute
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Founder, Transhumanist Arts & Culture
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