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Summary: 66 MegaChallengesMegaChallenges for the 21for the 21stst
CenturyCentury
· Key Challenges To Basic Scientific Understanding:
What is Mind? (how to build/understand intelligence)
· Basic Science of Mind: Up To the Highest Kind of General Intelligence We
see in the Smallest Mouse
· Middle Sci. Mind: from Mouse to "Sapient," the level of full use of symbolic
reasoning integrated with meaning/empathy (human brain is "new", still
halfway there in its evolution)
· Higher Sci. of Mind: Principles of higher levels in intelligent systems
design, like quantum, multimodular, soul
How does the Universe work? (Quantum physics...)
What is Life? (e.g., quantitative systems biotechnology)
· Key Broader Challenges to Humanity:
Sustainable growth on earth
· Global sustainable energy/environment & mid-term survival
· "yin sustainability," e.g. population, related women's issues, peace
Cost-effective sustainable space settlement
Human potential -- growth/learning in brain, soul, integration (body)
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