{"id":71213,"date":"2017-07-23T09:22:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T16:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/supersapiens-the-rise-of-the-mind"},"modified":"2017-07-25T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:00:20","slug":"supersapiens-the-rise-of-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/supersapiens-the-rise-of-the-mind","title":{"rendered":"Supersapiens, the Rise of the Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w86lf799MDY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the new film <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.terramater.at\/productions\/supersapiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supersapiens<\/a><\/em>, writer-director Markus Mooslechner raises a core question: As artificial intelligence rapidly blurs the boundaries between man and machine, are we witnessing the rise of a new human species?<\/p>\n<p>The film features scientists, philosophers, and neurohackers Nick Bostrom, Richard Dawkins, Hugo De Garis, Adam Gazzaley, Ben Goertzel, Sam Harris, Randal Koene, Alma Mendez, Tim Mullen, Joel Murphy, David Putrino, Conor Russomanno, Anders Sandberg, Susan Schneider, Mikey Siegel, Hannes Sjoblad, and Andy Walshe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHumanity is facing a turning point \u2014 the next evolution of the human mind,\u201d notes Mooslechner. \u201cWill this evolution be a hybrid of man and machine, where artificial intelligence forces the emergence of a new human species? Or will a wave of new technologists, who frame themselves as \u2018consciousness-hackers,\u2019 become the future torch-bearers, using technology not to replace the human mind, but rather awaken within it powers we have always possessed \u2014 enlightenment at the push of a button?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/scienceofsingularity.com\/2017\/07\/23\/supersapiens-the-rise-of-the-mind\/\">https:\/\/scienceofsingularity.com\/2017\/07\/23\/supersapiens-the-rise-of-the-mind\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the new film Supersapiens, writer-director Markus Mooslechner raises a core question: As artificial intelligence rapidly blurs the boundaries between man and machine, are we witnessing the rise of a new human species? The film features scientists, philosophers, and neurohackers Nick Bostrom, Richard Dawkins, Hugo De Garis, Adam Gazzaley, Ben Goertzel, Sam Harris, Randal Koene, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71259,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71213\/revisions\/71259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}