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AI consciousness and neuroscientifically plausible "seamless" mind-uploading
Masataka Watanabe, Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo's School of Engineering, examines a test for AI consciousness. He proposes it as part of a scientific approach to deciphering consciousness that leads to "seamless" mind uploading. Today, there is much debate on whether artificial intelligence (AI) has achieved consciousness. (1, 2) My short answer is probably not, but with dedicated substantial resources, AI will achieve consciousness at some point. So, what is consciousness? Could we ever tell whether it resides in AI? How can we build a conscious AI, and what would be the purpose of doing so?

Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Vorwort -- Einleitung: Am Tod scheiden sich die Geister - Zur Gestaltbarkeit des Lebens zwischen Kunst und Technik -- Sektion 1: Selbstbestimmung im Altern und Sterben -- Senizid: Gesellschaft, Literatur, Film -- Das neue Gesicht des Todes: Vom Widerfahrnis zur Selbstbestimmung -- Sektion 2: Ewiges Leben zwischen Selbstentgrenzung und Formen künstlicher Existenz -- Goethes "Faust" als selbstoptimierender und entgrenzender "homo infinitus" -- Künstliche Intelligenz und Datenökonomie - Befinden wir uns auf dem Weg in die Cyborg-Gesellschaft? -- Ewiges Leben durch künstliche Intelligenz und künstliche Gesellschaften -- Ins Netz gegangen - Privatheit post mortem in Sozialen Netzwerken -- Sektion 3: Transhumanistische Entwürfe von Unsterblichkeit -- Cognitive Architectures in times of Life 3.0: Human Intelligence or Artificial Intelligence? -- Mind Uploading? Eine philosophische Kritik -- Personale Identität, Verkörperung und Personentransfers: Eine identitätstheoretische Skizze -- Safe preservation of organs by cryogenic cooling, a chance of the future not only of medicine -- Verzeichnis der Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger -- Register

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