Thought Probes

Computerized Resurrection: If the program running on your brain was run on another computer sometime after you died, would you be resurrected?
Modern Cosmology, God, and the Resurrection of the Dead (http://www.math.tulane.edu/~tipler/tipler/tipler3.html) Theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg (University of Munich) defends Tipler's view of resurrection



Modern Cosmology and the Resurrection of the Dead (http://www.middx.org.uk/gordo/ellis2.html) Critical review by George F. R. Ellis of Tipler's notion of resurrection



The Physics of Immortality (http://www.santafe.edu/~johnson/reviews.tipler.html) Review of The Physics of Immortality by George Johnson for the New York Times



Virtual Immortality for Everyone Alive Today (http://www.globalideasbank.org/creend/CRE-40.HTML) Review of The Physics of Immortality by John Wren-Lewis University of Cape Town)



The Physics of Immortality (http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id100/pg1/http:/www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id100/... ) A collection of links to reviews of Tipler's book maintained by Disinformation

Is Data a person? Data, the robot in the TV series StarTrek: the Next Generation, is a zombie; he has no feelings or emotions. Can he be considered a person?
The Ice Man Cometh: Lt. Commander Data and the Turing Test (http://www.lccs.edu/~jsennett/iceman.htm) Article by James F. Sennett (Lincoln Christian College)



The Science of Star Trek (http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/just_for_fun/startrek.html) David Allen Batchelor (NASA) explores the feasibility of many devices used on Star Trek



Can Robots be People? (http://www.aubreyrhea.com/value/report.htm) Article by Aubrey O'Fallon (Illinois State University)



Robot Servants (http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/future/robots.html) Article by John McCarthy (Stanford University) on the effects of using robots as servants



Can Computers be Conscious? (http://www.macrovu.com/CCT6/CCTmap6cons.html) Argument map by MacroVu exploring the many different dimensions of the debate

Devout Robots: Should a robot that passed the Turing test and asked to be baptized be baptized?
Will Man-made Robots Rise Up and Demand Their Rights (http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2000/sep13/robots.html) Article by Rodney Brooks (Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory)



Turing and the Computer View of the Mind (http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/psychology/cog/psy1100/turing.htm) Lecture notes by Steve Torrance (Middlesex University)



Rethinking Deep Blue: Why a computer can't reproduce a mind (http://www.arn.org/docs/odesign/od182/blue182.htm) Article by Erik Larson



The Legal Rights of Robots (http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/LegalRightsOfRobots.htm) Article by Robert A. Freitas, Jr.



The Rights of Robots (http://www.metafuture.org/Articles/TheRightsofRobots.htm) Article by Phil McNally and Sohail Inayatullah (World Futures Studies Federation)

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