The Technology of Mind and a New Social Contract


	The Technology of Mind and a New Social Contract

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2-3-2008 9:04 AM

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progress of biology, neuroscience and computer science makes it clear that some
time during the twenty<INS datetime="2008-01-21T15:09" cite="mailto:Russell%20Blackford">-</INS><SPAN class="msoDel"><DEL datetime="2008-01-21T15:09" cite="mailto:Russell%20Blackford"> </DEL></SPAN>first
century we will master the <I>technologies
of mind and life</I>. We will build machines more intelligent than ourselves,
and modify our own brains and bodies to increase our intelligence, live
indefinitely and make other changes. We live together according to a <I>social contract</I>, consisting of laws,
morals and conventions governing our interactions. This social contract is
based on assumptions we rarely question: that all humans have roughly the same
intelligence, that we have limited life spans and that we share a set of
motives as part of our <I>human nature</I>.
The technologies of mind and life will invalidate these assumptions and
inevitably change our social contract in fundamental ways. We need to prepare
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