Tim Campbell
Tim is a philosopher and research fellow at the Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS) in Stockholm. His research has focused on topics in ethics related to population change, personal identity over time, the evaluation of radically new subjective experiences, and the intersection of these three areas. He is currently working to identify and evaluate the consequences of future population increase and decrease on the well-being of individuals, including non-human animals and future generations. This work is part of the project Climate Ethics and Future Generations at IFFS.
As a member of the Mimir Center, Tim will extend his current research to two questions in applied ethics. The first is how to approximate the aggregate well-being of non-human animals in the wild. The second is how to aggregate well-being in populations of whole brain emulations (ems). Whole brain emulation (WBE) is the logical endpoint of current work in computational neuroscience and connectomics: computational one-to-one models of entire brains. While full WBE is still decades away, progress in brain-mapping and brain/body simulation is ongoing, and the ethical questions in this area remain underexplored.