Summary: Beyond Humanity: CyberEvolution and Future The Creativity Machine® - This is the patented neural network paradigm that emulates the process wherein the brain generates novel ideas and plans of action that deviate from what it already knows. Furthermore, this canonical system illustrates how a neural architecture, like the brain, can invent an attitude about itself, in a process tantamount to self-awareness. Question: Is this a good idea? From website: initsimage.org "You may have heard a lot recently about highly speculative schemes to attain life extension via download to computers. If you're like us, we doubt the plausibility of these approaches. We at In Its Image place all of our faith in the Creativity Machine paradigm as the natural vehicle for immortality and hope that through our educational outreach, you will too." "STEVE THALER thinks he knows how to kindle a soul in the circuitry of a computer. With his key to consciousness in hand, computers will no longer be mere drones but creative beings with free will. Someday, he predicts, these machines will become so powerful that humans will choose to leave their obsolete flesh-and-blood "wetware" behind and live full time in the hardware world." - Bob Holmes, New Scientist, 20 January, 1996.
