Journal of Consciousness Studies issue on the Singularity

...has finally been published.

Contents:

Uziel Awret - Introduction
Susan Blackmore - She Won’t Be Me
Damien Broderick - Terrible Angels: The Singularity and Science Fiction
Barry Dainton - On Singularities and Simulations
Daniel Dennett - The Mystery of David Chalmers
Ben Goertzel - Should Humanity Build a Global AI Nanny to Delay the Singularity Until It’s Better Understood?
Susan Greenfield - The Singularity: Commentary on David Chalmers
Robin Hanson - Meet the New Conflict, Same as the Old Conflict
Francis Heylighen - Brain in a Vat Cannot Break Out
Marcus Hutter - Can Intelligence Explode?
Drew McDermott - Response to ‘The Singularity’ by David Chalmers [this link is a McDermott-corrected version, and therefore preferred to the version that was published in JCS]
Jurgen Schmidhuber - Philosophers & Futurists, Catch Up!
Frank Tipler - Inevitable Existence and Inevitable Goodness of the Singularity
Roman Yampolskiy - Leakproofing the Singularity: Artificial Intelligence Confinement Problem

The issue consists of responses to Chalmers (2010). Future volumes will contain additional articles from Shulman & Bostrom, Igor Aleksander, Richard Brown, Ray Kurzweil, Pamela McCorduck, Chris Nunn, Arkady Plotnitsky, Jesse Prinz, Susan Schneider, Murray Shanahan, Burt Voorhees, and a response from Chalmers.

McDermott's chapter should be supplemented with this, which he says he didn't have space for in his JCS article.

...has finally been published.

Contents:

Uziel Awret - Introduction
Susan Blackmore - She Won’t Be Me
Damien Broderick - Terrible Angels: The Singularity and Science Fiction
Barry Dainton - On Singularities and Simulations
Daniel Dennett - The Mystery of David Chalmers
Ben Goertzel - Should Humanity Build a Global AI Nanny to Delay the Singularity Until It’s Better Understood?
Susan Greenfield - The Singularity: Commentary on David Chalmers
Robin Hanson - Meet the New Conflict, Same as the Old Conflict
Francis Heylighen - Brain in a Vat Cannot Break Out
Marcus Hutter - Can Intelligence Explode?
Drew McDermott - Response to ‘The Singularity’ by David Chalmers [this link is a McDermott-corrected version, and therefore preferred to the version that was published in JCS]
Jurgen Schmidhuber - Philosophers & Futurists, Catch Up!
Frank Tipler - Inevitable Existence and Inevitable Goodness of the Singularity
Roman Yampolskiy - Leakproofing the Singularity: Artificial Intelligence Confinement Problem

McDermott's chapter should be supplemented with this, which he says he didn't have space for in his JCS article.

Maybe there's some confounding factor - like sudden recent interest in Singularity/transhumanist topics forcing the cite count up?

Unlikely, they have been highly ranked for a long time and singularity/transhumanist topics are only a very small part of what JCS covers.

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