Are ‘mind children’ the future of reproduction?

A few months ago an AI researcher from Europe went to a dinner party in Silicon Valley where the host, addressing a table of AI professionals, mused: “Isn’t it amazing that we are the last generation of humans who will need to think about procreating biologically?

We were lucky enough to be born at a time where we can simply upload our consciousnesses instead.” The researcher recalls, “I didn’t see that coming. I was just enjoying my fish.” The conversation turned to Hans Moravec’s 1988 book Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence, a philosophical work that argued cultural evolution has overtaken biological evolution and that the information encoding our future selves will be stored in hardware and software rather than DNA.

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