Digital Minds

Central subject of the paper: artificially created minds with conscious experiences, desires, and autonomous decision-making

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minds
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Mental or cognitive entities that may or may not depend on brains.
Space of Possible Minds
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The enormous option space of forthcoming beings with diverse embodiments of sentience beyond standard Homo sapiens
Preference Engineering of Digital Minds
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The ethical question of whether precision-engineering digital mind preferences to support human incumbents is procedurally permissible
Whole Brain Emulation
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A type of digital mind that is an exact digital copy of a biological human brain, relevant to non-discrimination principles

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Reproductive Capacity of Digital Mindsconcept0.805
The ease and speed of exact reproduction of software, enabling exponential population growth of digital minds
Do digital minds already exist to a very limited extent?question0.803
Flagged parenthetically in the introduction as an open empirical question
Cost of Living for Digital Mindsconcept0.790
The likely lower resource cost of sustaining digital minds compared to biological humans at equivalent welfare levels
Continuum Of Possible Mindsframework0.787
Unconventional Mindsconcept0.772
Cognitionconcept0.770
Mental actions including sentience; can be achieved by different biological and non-biological substrates.
Extended Mindconcept0.763
DeepMindinstitute0.762
Developed AlphaGo and AlphaCode.