ABSTRACTS AND KEY WORDS FOR ARCHIVE JOURNAL ARTICLES
The Journal of
Geoethical Nanotechnology
Featured Articles:
How Neuronanotechnology Will Lead to Melding of Mind
and Machine
Ray Kurzweil, Ph.D.
Abstract: Entrepreneur, author, futurist and producer, Ray Kurzweil,
deftly explains a path to understanding the basic principles of human
and artificial intelligence, and reverse engineering of the brain in
attempting to copy intelligently biological subsystems and brain
uploading as well as why the Law of Accelerating Returns will make
these possible sooner than many think possible.
Key Words: Ray Kurzweil, Terasem, workshop, Geoethical,
Nanotechnology, Lincoln, Vermont, AI, Genereal AI, strong AI,
narrow AI, artificial intelligence, reverse engineering, brain, biological
subsystems, brain uploading, non-biological intelligence, GNR,
genetics, robotics, reprogramming, programmability, Turing Test, Law
of Accelerating Returns, reading machine, technology trends, biology,
pattern recognition systems, self-organization, brain-scanning, fractal,
stochastic.
Typos:
Third paragraph after “Image 2: Reader “:
“If all the AI systems in the world suddenly stopped functioning, our
economic infrastructure would grind to a halt. Your bank would cease doing
business. Most transportation would be crippled. Most communications
would be crippled. This was the not the case a decade ago. Of course, our
AI systems are not smart enough—yet-- to organize such a conspiracy.
Strong AI. If you understand something in only one way, then you really
don’t understand it at all. This is because if something goes wrong, you get
stuck with a thought that just sits in your mind with nowhere to go.
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Upgrading Humans – Technical Realities and New
Morals
Kevin Warwick, Ph.D.
Abstract: Dr. Warwick, Professor of Cybernetics at the University of
Reading, England, describes how his 1998 experiment allowed him the
title of the world’s first, ‘Human Cyborg’ when he implanted a Radio
Frequency Identification Device (of his own design), within his body.
Dr. Warwick also explains the present and possible future benefits of
the technology of merging man and machine.
Key Words: KevinWarwick, Human Cyborg, implant, Radio
Frequency Identification Device, RFID, Reading University,
enhancement, upgrading, deep brain stimulator, articulated arm robot,
implant, dimensionality, communication, electrochemical signals,
brain-to-brain communication, silicone electrode, median nerve fiber,
bidirectional access, neural signals, motor signals, electrochemical
signals, ultrasonic signals, Columbia University, current frequency
stimulation, ultrasonic sense, radio transmitter receiver, alternate sense,
sensory input, infrared sense, ultraviolet sense, X-ray sense,
microneurography, telegraphic communication.
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Vol. 6, Issue 2 – December 2011
The Geoethics of Frankenfolk
Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D.
Abstract: Dr. Martine Rothblatt, Chairman of United Therapeutics of
Maryland, analyzes historic cultural and civil differences illustrated in
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and compares them with modern-day
technological notions of artificial life.
Key Words: Martine Rothblatt, civil rights, artificial life,
Frankenstein, imitation, bio-plastic, robot, I Robot, Astro Boy, Matrix,
Cylons, Battlestar Gallactica,
Typos:
1. Second paragraph below Astro Boy and Cylons photos:
In SteveN Spielberg's film, "A.I." [6], a mother dumped the cute little AI kid
with the hankering for spaghetti at the side of a highway. That's a pretty
mean thing for a mother to do. We will give her a brownie point though, for
tossing him out with his robot teddy bear. Also, remember how the wise and
kind father kicked the "Bicentennial Man" [7] out of the house that he so
immaculately maintained and made a fortune for wise father – all because he
simply asked for a living wage. Empowerment, via the creation of an
imitation, followed by disappointment due to the imitation feeling separate,
unequal, unloved, and/or threatened, followed by conflict arising out of
humanity's inadequate response to its imitation's unhappiness and then
regret based on humanity's disdain for finding itself in conflict.
To Interface the Future: Interacting More Intimately
with Information
William Kraemer, M.S.
Abstract: Mr. Kraemer deftly explains how human interaction with
digital computers will change in the near future, from the initial user
interface to the evolving thought pattern recognition and braincomputer interface.
Key Words: human interaction, pattern recognition, brain-computer
interface, User Interface, UI, User Experience, UX, Command Line
Interface, CLI, Graphical User Interface, GUI, Natural User Interface,
NUI, neuromorphic, Brain Computer Interface, BCI, Cortical Neural
Prosthesis, CNP, cochlear implants, retinal implant, DARPA Grand
Challenge, Artificial Intelligence, AI, Artificial General Intelligence,
AGI, optical character recognition, OCR, cortically coupled computer
vision, Super-Intelligence, SI, existential risk, nanomedicine, brain
pacemaker, deep brain stimulation, DBS.
Typos:
1.
(Right after the second call out box:
Directly Linking Man and Machine Together
The first BCI developed to arrive has been the BrainGate [7]
Suggest either …developed…..was the… or
…developed…has been…
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The Realpolitik of Ableism
Gregor Wolbring, Ph.D.
Abstract: Dr. Wolbring discusses the unequal distribution of abilities
inherent in biological structures and the governance necessary to our
future of evolving human enhancement and abilities.
Key Words: ableism, speciesism, enhancements, therapeutic, bodylinked interventions, cheetah legs, techno-doping, exoskeleton, brainmachine interface, BMI, thought-control computer games, nanosysbio,
cyborgization, miniaturization, productivity, efficiency, global
competitiveness, cognitive enhancement, depopulation economics,
species-typical, impairment, techno-poor, unenhanced impaired,
techno-enhancement, ability inequity, neuroengineering
Typos: none found
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Vol. 6, Issue 1- June 2011
The Ethics of Evolution, and the Evolution of Ethics
Walter Truett Anderson
Abstract: Dr. Anderson, author and President Emeritus of the World
Academy of Art and Science, discusses the challenge of becoming
technologically responsible in a rapidly-changing and increasingly
global civilization.
Key Words: Geoethics, evolution, consciousness, Antropocene,
cosmic heritage, galactic ecosystem, connectedness, non-dualism,
Typos: In closing, let me tell you what I think is happening now, to us,
to sentient creatures on this planet: We are experiencing growth of
consciousness, an extension of self – in Damasio's term. Everybody
(add the word: who?) now lives on Earth, is participating in a mental
migration into a global frame of reference – the only (the only what??)
dramatically revealed to us a few decades ago in the Apollo photograph
of the planet. Everybody has moved – unevenly, of course – into the
global arena. Everybody is also – again, unevenly – becoming aware of
the universe in a way that people were not when they merely gazed at
the night sky. The media send all our minds tumbling into an
environment of new experiences, promises, fears beyond the scope of
anything previously known. Out at the edges of this are scientific and
technological discoveries that promise further transformations. A time
not only for big ideas, but also for great deeds. and big ideas. It is also a
time when we have a very real chance of destroying our planet and
world civilization.
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In Our Post-Singularity Age
Jameson Dungan
Abstract: Mr. Jameson explores the transforming nature of
information technology within the philosophy of biology toward an
understanding of what life itself is and exploring the potential of
flexible biology and recursive information.
Key Words: synthetic biology, life, information, information theory,
Quantum Information Theory, entropy, thermodynamics, recursive
information.
Typos: none found
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Diagramming Sentences of Value: Evolving Human
Rights and the Terms of Geoethical Nanotechnology
Wrye Sententia, Ph.D.
Abstract: Dr. Wrye Sententia, Director of the Center for Cognitive
Liberty and Ethics from 1999-2005, is currently a Professor at the
University of California, Davis campus. Drawing from her well of
cognitive and technological expertise, Sententia emphasizes the
fundamental human right of freedom of thought without constraint
within this age of interactive technologies.
Key Words: Geoethical Nanotechnology, nanoscale science,
cognition, communication, neurodiagnostics, nanomedicine, technoculture.
Typos: example
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Vol. 5, Issue 1- October 2010
Geoethics for Cryonic Revival Nanotech & BioNano
Sleeves
Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D.
Abstract: Dr. Rothblatt proposes a solution to approvable selfreplicating nanotechnology, useful in its potential to extend human life,
with respect to the Asilomar Guidelines approach of assigning levels of
risk.
Key Words: self-replicating, nanotechnology, Asilomar Guidelines,
Geoethical, predictability, cryonic revival, bionano sleeves, risk
management, pathogenicity, ecological disruption, cryonic, biostasis,
Typos: none found
Cognitive Nanotechnology and Life Extension
Thomas F. Carey
Abstract: Mr. Carney postulates on the future technologies thwarting
neurological and biological cell death, thereby serving to extend
human life and consciousness.
Key Words: Cognitive Nanotechnology, nanotechnology,
picotechnology, Life Extension, consciousness, regenerative
technology, transhumant, transhumanist, personal identity,
technological singularity, mind uploading,
Typos:
1. Under the second callout:
The primary contenders toward achieving a neurological life… (this a
very long paragraph)… … It’s obviously very complicated and requires
a solid understanding of how consciousness works, and then how to
recreate the consciousness with technology, and feed it to a person’s
brain. However, if the conscious experience is the result of
chemical/electrical processes, then cognitive technology should, in
theory, have the ability to create a perfect simulation.
Vol. 4, Issue 2- December 2009
Recombinant DNA and Self-replicating Molecular
Manufacturing: Parallels and Lessons
James B. Lewis, Ph.D.
Abstract: Dr. Lewis expounds on why an Asilomar-like conference, as
well as other venues involving relevant members of the scientific and
technical communities, should be explored to identify and avoid
immediate threats to public safety at such time when self-replicating
nanotechnology is imminent
Key Words: Asilomar Conference, self-replication, molecular
nanotechnology, nanoscience, social responsibility, self-governance,
recombinant DNA, Foresight Guidelines, international, treaty,
Typos: 1. Two paragraphs run together (needs a space) just above the
Drexler photo. Two more paragraphs are run together just below the
Drexler photo.
Vol. 4, Issue 2- December 2009
The Geoethics of Frankenfolk
Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D.
Abstract: discusses
Key Words: word,
Typos: example
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