Cybernetic Biostasis Use of Digital Mindfiles to Preserve
Cybernetic Biostasis: Use of Digital Mindfiles to Preserve Life Pending Revival Via Mindware, Cyber-Consciousness & Mindloading Martine Rothblatt, Ph. D. Martine 4@gmail. com Trans. Vision 07 ~ Chicago 2007 -07 -24 2030 GMT
Outline of Talk • • • What Are “Digital Mindfiles? ” What is Meant by “Preserve Life? ” What is “Revival Via Mindware? ” What is “Cyber-Consciousness? ” What is “Mindloading? ” How Do All These Concepts Hang Together? 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 2
Digital Mindfiles • Computer-Storable Reflections of: – – – – Mannerisms Personality Recollections Feelings Beliefs Attitudes Values 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 3
Not a Perfect Copy… But It Doesn’t Matter • An analog of the psychological essence of a person • No such thing as a perfect copy of anything • Minds always change • What matters are patterns, sense of self and sense of continuity 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 4
Close Enough is Good Enough 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 5
Caravaggio’s Vision of Abraham Ready to Sacrifice His Son 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 6
Rembrandt’s View of Abraham’s Readiness to Sacrifice His Son There are many different ways to remember something… 10/2/2020 But there a limited number of patterns of recollection! martine 4@gmail. com 7
It’s Clear That Mindfiles Need Not Even Approach 100% • Normal People Remember Only a Small Percent of What They Experience • Mannerisms, Personality, Feelings, Beliefs, Attitudes & Values Are: – – Not infinitely variable and unique Finite sets that repeat across people Minor variations not material Recollections & combinations create uniqueness 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 8
Fascinating Mindfile Facts: Estimated Number of… An adult’s short term memory Up to 7 items for 3 - 20 seconds Recognizable faces Several hundred Personality sub-types Few dozen Universal facial expressions Adult’s thoughts retained per day Emotions 6 10/2/2020 7% - 13% Few dozen martine 4@gmail. com 9
So What Makes Us Unique? • Dozens (n) of mannerism personality & feeling types (m) yield many thousands of unique combinations • (n!) / (m! * (n-m)!) • Differential recollections, beliefs, attitudes & values create billions of unique combinations 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 10
Unique Human Combinations 1 T Unique Human Combinations 1 B 1 M 1 K 20% 33% 50% 66% 80% % Mannerism, Personality & Feeling Sub-Types Out of 36 Possible Types 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 11
New Word: Bemes Genes 10/2/2020 Design Elements of Mind/Nootype Design Elements of Body/Phenotype martine 4@gmail. com 12
Darwinian Phenomena Genes Memes Bemes Make Proteins Make Culture Make Self Made of DNA Made of Symbols Made of Neuron States Can Rebuild With Nano-Bio Datafiles Mindfiles 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 13
Let’s Get Practical • • Digital Video/Photos Blogs & Diaries Psych Tests & Lists Bainbridge Surveys Sensecam Data As Others See Me Lifenaut. com; Cyberev. com 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 14
Bemes Are Organized Into Mindfiles at Cyberev. com 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 15
Bemes Are Also Recorded Into Mindfiles at Lifenaut. com 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 16
One Hour a Day of Mindfile Deposits Is Enough • 5 Years to Complete 100, 000 Bainbridges • 5 Years to Upload, Label & Emotion. Code 100 K Photos • 2000 Hours of You on Video! (In 5 Yrs) 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 17
Outline of Talk • • • What Are “Digital Mindfiles? ” What is Meant by “Preserve Life? ” What is “Revival Via Mindware? ” What is “Cyber-Consciousness? ” What is “Mindloading? ” How Do All These Concepts Hang Together? 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 18
Definitions of Life • • Biology Thermodynamic Information Theory Legal 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 19
According to Biologists, Life Is That Which • Is Organized • Takes Energy from Environment • Responds to Stimuli • Reproduces • Develops • Adapts to Environment 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 20
Do Mindfiles Preserve Life? Biological Criteria I Say YES I Say NO Organized Data Structure Not Enough Extract Energy Electricity Not the Bits Responsive Eg Chatbots Not all Stimuli Reproduce Copy Mindfiles Only Viral Develop Mindfiles Grow No Autonomy Adapt to Environment Multi-Platforms No Autonomy 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 21
Thermodynamic & Information Theoretic Definitions of Life • Thermodynamic: Localized decrease in entropy • Information Theoretic: Sufficiently ordered information so as to recreate a being 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 22
100, 000+ Bainbridge Questions Local Entropy & Preserve Order 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 23
Geo-Coded Bemes Local Entropy & Preserve Order 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 24
Are Mindfiles IT or Thermodynamically Alive? Factor Mindfiles ARE Alive Mindfiles Are NOT Alive Localized Region Digital Storage Media Not Localized Enough Continuous Increase Order Grows With Uploads Not Growing When Static IT Replicable If Sufficiently Detailed Can’t Be Quantum 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 25
So, Do Mindfiles Preserve Life? Just Say NO I Say YES “It’s a tautological debate. ” 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 26
So, the Lawyers Have Decided…And Re-Decided Clinical Death: The cessation of heartbeat and breathing. Brain Death: An individual who has sustained either Source: De. Spelder LA. Strickland AL. 2005. The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying. 6 th Ed. New York, N. Y. : Mc. Graw Hill. P. 211 (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or (2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead. Source: Uniform Determination of Death Act・N. H. Rev. Stat. 141 -D: 1 et seq. 1986, 191: 1, eff. July 1, 1987. 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 27
When Technology Advanced, the Definition of Life Changed 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 28
Ergo, When Mindfiles Are Revived, They’ll Be Called Alive Dead Heart + No Transplant = S/he Is Dead Heart + Transplant = S/he Was Alive Dead Mind + No Mindplant = S/he Is Dead Mind + Mindplant = S/he Was Alive If brain functions, such as memory, are retained ex vivo isn’t the person still alive? 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 29
Do Mindfiles Preserve Life • Preserved life ≠ being alive • “Preserved” means “protect…something from danger of being killed or damaged. ” • Mindfiles per se protect information of a life 10/2/2020 Is the information of a life equivalent to a life? martine 4@gmail. com 30
Outline of Talk • • • What Are “Digital Mindfiles? ” What is Meant by “Preserve Life? ” What is “Revival Via Mindware? ” What is “Cyber-Consciousness? ” What is “Mindloading? ” How Do All These Concepts Hang Together? 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 31
Revival Via Mindware • Software that enables equivalent functionality to a mind from which mindfiles were abstracted • “Auto-tunes” based on processing of mindfiles 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 32
Antecedents of Mindware • • Gameware Avatars Autonomous Cars Social Chatbots AI Engines – E. g. Novamente • Neuro-Electronic Mapping 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 33
Less Than 30 Years to Mindware Revivals 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 34
So, Start Mindfiling If… • You love life • There’s a risk your body won’t hold out • You don’t want cryonics to be your sole fallback option • You are H+/B+ enough to risk virtual life for a while 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 35
Outline of Talk • • • What Are “Digital Mindfiles? ” What is Meant by “Preserve Life? ” What is “Revival Via Mindware? ” What is “Cyber-Consciousness? ” What is “Mindloading? ” How Do All These Concepts Hang Together? 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 36
Cyber-Consciousness • A subjective state in techno substrate • Self-awareness • Self-value – “The value of a life is the value one has for their life. ” J. Harris • Psychological assessment of empirical correlates 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 37
Society is Cool With Using Shrinks to Gauge Subjectivity • • Intent of a defendant Sanity of an inmate Honesty of a spy Gender identity of a sex reassignment surgery candidate • Empirical correlates of conscious states are good enough! 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 38
“Downloading is Pretty Fucking Far From Suicide” 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 39
Getting Practical Again Got Cyber-Conscious? (Mindfile Trustor Help) Legislatures Set Standards (Forum Shopping Begins) Get Guardian Ad Litem (Mindware Pulldown Option) Affadavits From 2 Shrinks (Board-Certified in Cyber. Psychology…) Judge Says You’re Alive (Then You’re Legally Alive) 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 40
Outline of Talk • • • What Are “Digital Mindfiles? ” What is Meant by “Preserve Life? ” What is “Revival Via Mindware? ” What is “Cyber-Consciousness? ” What is “Mindloading? ” How Do All These Concepts Hang Together? 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 41
Mindloading Embeds Cyber. Consciousness In a Sleeve • Virtual Bodies • Robot Bodies • DNA-Derived Bodies – Off-the-rack – Your own DNA • Bio-Nano Bodies – Burn to neurons – Interface to neurons • Foglet Bodies 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 42
Mindloading Trusts That Our Bodies Are But a Canvas “The naked fear of sleeving [is just] paranoid essentialism with its back to the wall. ” Morgan, Richard. Altered Carbon. Victor Gollancz Ltd. , 2002, p. 164. 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 43
Revolutionary Forerunners of Mindloading & Sleeving • • • Tattoos Body Piercing Cosmetic Surgery Device Implants Virtual Living Transcendental Meditation Lucky Diamond Rich is the world's most tattooed person 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 44
We See Now the Vanguard of Transbodism • • • Tattoos Body Piercing Cosmetic Surgery Device Implants Virtual Living Transcendental Meditation Elaine Davidson, the world's most pierced woman. 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 45
What Is Radical Now; Will Soon Be Passé • • • 10/2/2020 Tattoos Body Piercing Cosmetic Surgery Device Implants Virtual Living Transcendental Meditation martine 4@gmail. com 46
100, 000 Hips & Knees Are Titaniumized a Year • • • 10/2/2020 Tattoos Body Piercing Cosmetic Surgery Device Implants Virtual Living Transcendental Meditation martine 4@gmail. com 47
We Can Take Any Form In Data & Export It In Foglet • • • 10/2/2020 Tattoos Body Piercing Cosmetic Surgery Device Implants Virtual Living Transcendental Meditation martine 4@gmail. com 48
Astral Projection Is Always Available, If We Let Go • • • 10/2/2020 Tattoos Body Piercing Cosmetic Surgery Device Implants Virtual Living Transcendental Meditation martine 4@gmail. com 49
Mindloading to Neurons Is < 30 Years Off 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 50
Outline of Talk • • • What Are “Digital Mindfiles? ” What is Meant by “Preserve Life? ” What is “Revival Via Mindware? ” What is “Cyber-Consciousness? ” What is “Mindloading? ” How Do All These Concepts Hang Together? 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 51
How These Concepts Hang Together Mindware Revives Consciousness Mindware Is a Zombie Bust Deposit Mindfiles Live Die Wasted Time Can’t Be Bothered Die 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 52
Terasem Hypotheses 1. The creation of sufficiently detailed mindfiles will enable future mindware to revive an analog of the consciousness that created the mindfiles. 10/2/2020 2. Consciousness revived from mindfiles can be downloaded into nano-bio and/or cellular-regenerated bodies to joyfully continue the life reflected in the mindfiles. martine 4@gmail. com 53
Cy. Be. Rev’s Photo Reactions Tool Helps Test 1 st Terasem Hypothesis 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 54
Lifenaut’s Beme-Sequencing Tool Helps Test 1 st Hypothesis 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 55
Come Help Test the Terasem Hypotheses! • www. cyberev. com • www. lifenaut. com • Free, Fun & Possibly Life-Saving! 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 56
Acknowledgements • • • Temple Fortson, Research & Editorial E. Nadler, Transmetropolitan Cartoon Andy Warhol, Freud Images Ralph Merkle, 2 x 2 Matrix Choice Alex Grey, Visionary Art The Heroes Who’ve Inspired Me 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 57
Heroes Who’ve Inspired Me 10/2/2020 martine 4@gmail. com 58
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