Hans Moravec

• original thinker, paradigm changer, visionary, philosopher

• worldrenownedroboticist
  (a new word apparently made up just to describe Moravec... at least it always seems to be used in conjunction with his name)

• author of Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence

• The Age of Mind (1993--hopefully) will push the ideas further.

  The concept and research originally came out of the Moravec-Minsky immortality quest. Those pioneers of artificial intelligence, Hans Moravec at Carnegie-Mellon and Marvin Minsky at MIT, believed an individual brain could be entirely imported into a computer program and supercopied. The human body would become superfluous. When the body died, the program could be housed in a robotic body, and the individual's consciousness could live forever.

  Immortality.

  Lisa Mason, Arachne (New York: Morrow, 1990), 70-71.