Mind Children

About the book

In Mind Children, Hans Moravec presents a radical vision of the future: human intelligence may give rise to machines capable of thinking, learning, acting and evolving beyond biology’s limitations. Drawing on robotics, artificial intelligence and the continuing growth of computing power, Moravec describes a transition from rudimentary machines to autonomous, conscious and adaptable entities. These creations would become more than tools: humanity’s artificial descendants, heirs to its culture, knowledge and evolution. The book also explores human–machine symbiosis, the possibility of transferring minds to new substrates and the emergence of a post-biological world in which intelligence could free itself from the mortal body. Visionary and provocative, Mind Children asks not only what machines we will build, but what place we will occupy when they become capable of continuing intelligence’s history without us.