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The book's main scenario proposes that in about a hundred years from now, human brains will be scanned at "fine enough spatial and chemical resolution," and combined with rough models of signal-processing functions of brain cells, "to create a cell-by-cell dynamically executable model of the full
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perspective, for the detail it gives, and for providing a starting point for further study. He also criticized some of the book's arguments and stated that different authors would reach different conclusions about the same topic.
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brain in artificial hardware, a model whose signal input-output behavior is usefully close to that of the original brain."
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It explores the implications of a future world in which researchers have not created
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but have learned to copy humans onto computers, creating "ems," or
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people, who quickly come to outnumber the real ones.
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Oxford University Press
ISBN
9780198754626
Robin Hanson
artificial general intelligence
emulated
human eras
foraging
Seth Baum
Futures
social science
Mind uploading in fiction
Mind uploading
Hanson, Robin
The Age of Em
ISBN
9780198754626
"What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? – The New Yorker"
"The Age of Em review – the horrific future when robots rule the Earth"
doi
10.1016/j.futures.2017.03.005
"Is This Economist Too Far Ahead of His Time?"
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"The Social Science of Computerized Brains – Review of The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth by Robin Hanson (Oxford University Press, 2016)"
doi
10.1016/j.futures.2017.03.005
http://ageofem.com/
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futures studies

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