The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis

Quote from footnote 1: "This paper was published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies 17:7-65, 2010. I first became interested in this cluster of ideas as a student, before first hearing explicitly of the “singularity” in 1997. I was spurred to think further about these issues by an invitation to speak at the 2009 Singularity Summit in New York City. I thank many people at that event for discussion, as well as many at later talks and discussions at West Point, CUNY, NYU, Delhi, ANU, Tucson, Oxford, and UNSW. Thanks also to Doug Hofstadter, Marcus Hutter, Ole Koksvik, Drew McDermott, Carl Shulman, and Michael Vassar for comments on this paper."