Claim · 2005 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Warwick's foreword to de Garis's The Artilect War (2005) states his hope that humans can attain the godlike abilities de Garis describes by enhancing themselves into part-artilects.

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What it connects

Foreword to The Artilect War → bears on → Human minds transferred into machines

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Claim and evidence

Foreword to The Artilect Warbears on ↓Human minds transferred into machines

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2005 · publication Records dated 2005 →
Wording attested: 2014-03-17. Wording read in the author-posted PDF, created 2014-03-17; identity with the 2005 printing not verified.
Role: Context
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction
Missing element: Concerns partial machine enhancement ('part-artilects'); the passage does not state that a human mind could be transferred into or wholly continued in a machine.

Scope and limitsA hope stated in a foreword; Warwick describes himself as more "Cyborgian" than "Terran".

The evidence 01

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Foreword to The Artilect War

Foreword (pp. i–iii) in the author-posted PDF of de Garis, The Artilect War · 2005

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Source excerpt

“by converting ourselves into part-artilects, without having to pay the cost of a major war.”

Location in source Foreword, pp. i–ii, PDF pp. 3–4

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

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Source details and check notes

Authors: Kevin Warwick
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 44a3365a48c4caf1283939376a7e7b6937bab68acf6cabd940595f8f594ab3b2). As in the author-posted PDF (creation date 2014-03-17); the foreword is undated.
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Kevin Warwick, “Foreword to The Artilect War”, 2005.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (15 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 14) classified the record’s passage blind and reached the same stance. No human editorial review.

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