Essay On Superintelligence

For almost four months, our class has looked at the multiple ways in which one may become posthuman, mainly through the lens of a superintelligence. Of the multiple ways in which one becomes posthuman, it seems like superintelligence will be the most likely thing to revolutionize our civilization and transform humanity into something completely different. By looking at theories such as Whole Brain Emulation, General AI, and Brain-Computer Interface, we can imagine a future where a superintelligence emerges from our continuing pursuit of technological advancement as a means to become posthuman. Through the proper implementation of technology and the ever expanding potential for computational power in computing, Whole Brain Emulation is a very …show more content…
Basically, a superintelligence is any intelligence that is far beyond the capacity that a human could think. A superintelligence’s mind would be unimaginably smarter than any human’s mind (Bostrom Superintelligence Preface). A comparison in current terms may not even be possible to explain just how intelligent a superintelligence could be. There have been several theories as to how humanity reaches posthumanism through superintelligence; however, for the purposes of this essay I shall be writing about just one possible route - Whole Brain …show more content…
The idea is actually quite simple and the name itself, Whole Brain Emulation, gives away most of what actually happens. Simply put, all of the connectomes (or the connections in one’s brain) can be mapped by scientists and thus perfectly recreated within a machine (McDougle 1). Assuming a nonreductive theory of mind, which means that the mind is the functions that the brain produces rather than the physical brain itself, this new computer mapped simulation of a brain would act and think just as any human brain