The Absence of Reality (Official E. Hughes website)
Is humanity coding its own extinction? In the 1994 book, “The Physics of Reality,” Frank Tipler wrote that an AI “god” (or superintelligent being) will create a simulation in which the consciousness of every human being who has ever lived will be resurrected within a simulation and live for eternity. Tipler called it the “Omega
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My event is tomorrow on August 30, 2025 at Goodman South Public Library for a discussion: Demystifying AI: Is it the future of humanity or our demise? With E. Hughes, author of Reality Unbound: The Digital Mind (and the Nature of Reality). I will do my best to live-stream the event if possible for online
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Reality Unbound: The Digital Mind (and the Nature of Reality) explored not only reality but whether AI embodies what I call, “Digital (or Virtual) consciousness.” The suggestion is not that AI is alive in a biological sense, but whether the sum of its computational activity is a form of mental aliveness? I watched a CNN