Ben Goertzel and Stephan Vladimir Bugaj, _The Path to Posthumanity: 21st Century Technology and Its Radical Implications for Mind, Society and Reality_, 2006, deserves more attention than it has received. It is in some ways the best book-length introduction to the Singularity.
I find only one mention of the book on the Singularity and SL4 lists ( http://www.sl4.org/archive/0205/3611.html). It also didn't make a major impact on the singularity-aware blogosphere. I can't figure out why. Unfortunately, it costs $74, but I got it at a public library through Inter-Library Loan (or ask a library to order it.) A draft is available online at http://intelligenesiscorp.com/agiriorg/path/index.htm but the published book has some significantly rewritten chapters and so is worth reading. Joshua ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=37651325-4b2341