An AI researcher in Silicon Valley heard a host claim humanity would be the last generation needing biological procreation because consciousness could be uploaded. Guests then focused on “mind children,” prompting the researcher to learn the term from Hans Moravec’s 1988 book Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence. Economist and futurist Robin Hanson said the book created a major impact within robotics and machine-learning experts. Moravec framed the idea as a philosophical argument that cultural evolution now drives humanity more than biological evolution. The future selves’ information would be encoded in hardware and software rather than DNA, with mind children potentially having soft bodies or many physical or non-physical forms.
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