BCIG Bookclub: “When Humans Forgot How to Think:
Emergence of Machina Sapiens”
Clinical
Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)
FREE BOOKS IN ENGLISH OR GERMAN
(See details below under BOOK AVAILABILITY: on this
special once-in-a lifetime offer for October 2006 BCIG
Book Club attendees only)
Will networked computers take over the world? Will human
brains all be turned into paste? Will we all become lap-dogs of the internet? So
says prominent physician-philosopher Prof. Kazem Sadegh-zadeh, in a carefully
reasoned argument, in his book, “When Humans Forgot How to Think: Emergence of
Machina Sapiens.” Come to the October, 2006, BCIG Book Club! The author will
participate From Germany by webcam.”
THE EVENING:
The first portion of the meeting (5:30 to 7:00 p.m. will consist of brief
announcements and a full review of the book by volunteers. See the program at
the bottom of this announcement. More volunteers are needed. How about you?
(Please contact Jim DeLeo to volunteer.) After presenters review the book, Bill
Moore, Kazem Sadegh-zadeh and Jim DeLeo will facilitate a group dialogue about
the book from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.)
AID TO VOLUNTEERS: Dr. Bill has created a Power
Point presentations s an aid to volunteer presenters. It can be found at
http://www.netautopsy.org/bcig/machbcig.ppt . This powerpoint may be shared
with any of the other presenters. They make take any parts of it for their own
presentations, or ignore it if they wish. There is about three hours of material
in here, so obviously I will edit it before presentation day. Some of the
pictures may have copyrights, so they may be presented under "fair use", but not
further distributed. If the face on the pictures died more than a century ago,
then the picture is public domain in the USA and EU.
REVIEW: All the world has fallen under the spell of
internet fever. This is the beginning of a development, at the end of which,
humankind will stand stultified. This development shall be the subject of this
book. The book presents a theory regarding the development of technology, or
technoevolution. This theory presents the idea that technical devices proceed
through Darwinian evolution, similar to that of biological organisms; and
predicts that Machina sapiens (intelligent machine) will arise in the form of an
earth-spanning, autonomous, and sentient machine, through whose agency, humanity
will progressively decline.
Bookclub Presentations
Chapter 1-3 Intro, A Self Misunderstanding - Bill Moore
 audio
 powerpoint
Chapter 4 What is Life? Life-Forms as Systems - Jim DeLeo
audio
powerpoint
Chapter 5 The Idea of Bioevolution - Carl Leonard
audio
powerpoint
Chapter 6 Evolutionary Systems - David Stiles
audio
powerpoint
Chapter 7 The Global Machine - Nada Vydelingum (Presented by Bill Moore)
audio
powerpoint
Chapter 8 Technoeveolution - David Stiles
audio
powerpoint
Chapter 9 Machina Sapiens - Chuck Selden
audio
powerpoint
Chapter 10 Afterward 2000
powerpoint
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5:30 pm- 7:30 pm October 26, 2006
Kazem Sadegh-zadeh, M.D.
Bill Moore
AUTHOR: Prof. Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh, M.D., is an analytic philosopher of
medicine. He immigrated to Germany in March, 1960, and was naturalized in 1986.
He studied medicine and philosophy at the German universities of Münster,
Berlin, and Göttingen from 1960 through 1967; internship and residency,
1967-1971; MD, 1971; assistant professor and lecturer, 1972-1982; full professor
of philosophy of medicine at the University of Münster, 1982-2004. Prof.
Sadegh-Zadeh is founder of the analytic philosophy of medicine. His
international recognition came especially through his work on clinical logic and
methodology, including fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence in medicine. He
is the founding editor of the international journals, Theoretical Medicine and
Bioethics, and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. His work includes: theory of
medicine, theory of fuzzy biopolymers, the prototype resemblance theory of
disease, and theory of the Machina sapiens. Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh, MD, Emeritus
Professor. Theory of Medicine Department. University of Münster Clinic. Münster,
Germany.
FACILITATORS: Dr. Moore received his Ph.D. in biomathematics in 1971,
from the Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC,
under the direction of the late Prof. H. R. van der Vaart and Prof. Mary B.
Williams. Prof. Williams, in turn, was a student of the late Prof. Joseph H.
Woodger, who wrote The Axiomatic Method in Biology. Dr. Moore spent the academic
year 1971-1972 in the Department of Pathology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg
i. Br., Germany, and first met Prof. Sadegh-zadeh during that year. Dr. Moore
received his M.D. from Wayne State University in 1976, and completed a residency
in anatomic pathology at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in 1981. He is
currently a general anatomic pathologist in the Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine Service, Baltimore Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System,
Baltimore, MD. Jim DeLeo is a physicist / computer scientist who is Chief of the
Scientific Computing Section in the NIH Clinical Center and the Chair of BCIG.
He believes this book and the intellectual genius behind it as representing a
highly significant contribution to the general field of “Network Science” now
emerging. He believes that Network Science will help us describe, understand and
predict multiple hierarchy and vertical level cyclically causal
processes/systems in medicine and any other discipline in which processes are
paramount. As far as the “Watch out! The machines are coming!” aspect of the
book, well, he thinks the book and perhaps the Book Club meeting will catalyze
interesting dialogue among modern day Ludites who may want to constrain the role
of technology and Singularitarians who believe in immortality and uploading
consciousness into other substrates, like silicon.
SUITABILITY:
Anyone interested in the subject matter of the book is most welcome to attend
this BCIG Book Club Event.
REGISTRATION:
As with most all BCIG events, registration is not required. Just show up happy.
NIH CONTACT:
Carl Leonard, 301-496-0191,
cleonard@lired.com
REFRESHMENTS:
Please bring refreshments if you wish. There is a cafeteria near our meeting
room. We may go out to dinner with the author in a nearby Bethesda restaurant
after the meeting.
BCIG WEB SITE:
www.nih-bcig.org
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