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Virtually Human explores the particular not-too-distant future will look like when cyberconsciousness - simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology - becomes part of our day to day lives. Meet Bina48, the world's most sentient robot, commissioned by Martine Rothblatt and created by Hanson Robotics. Bina48 is a nascent Mindclone of Martine's partner that can engage in dialog, answer questions, and have even spontaneous thoughts that derive from multi-media data in a Mindfile created by the true Bina. If you are active on Tweets or Facebook, talk about photos through Instagram, or blogging regularly, you're already on the way to creating a Mindfile - a digital database of your ideas, memories, emotions, and opinions that is essentially a back-up duplicate of your brain. Soon, this Mindfile can be made mindful with special software - Mindware - that mimics just how human brains organize information, create thoughts and achieve self-awareness. This may appear to be science-fiction, however the nascent technology already is out there. Thousands of software engineers throughout the world are working to produce cyberconsciousness predicated on human awareness and the Obama administration recently announced programs to invest in a decade-long Brain Activity Map task. Virtually People is the one audiobook to look at the honest issues relating to cyberconsciousness and Rothblatt, with a Ph.D. in medical ethics, is uniquely certified to lead the dialogue.
