Cybernetic Biostasis E

Cybernetic Biostasis: Use of Digital Mindfiles to Preserve Life Pending Revival Via Mindware, Cyber-Consciousness & Mindloading Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D. [email_address] TransVision07 ~ 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?

Digital Mindfiles
Computer-Storable Reflections of:
Mannerisms
Personality
Recollections
Feelings
Beliefs
Attitudes
Values

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

Close Enough is Good Enough

Caravaggio’s Vision of Abraham Ready to Sacrifice His Son

Rembrandt’s View of Abraham’s Readiness to Sacrifice His Son There are many different ways to remember something… But there are a limited number of patterns of recollection!

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

Fascinating Mindfile Facts: Estimated Number of… Few dozen Emotions 7% - 13% Adult’s thoughts retained per day 6 Universal facial expressions Few dozen Personality sub-types Several hundred Recognizable faces Up to 7 items for 3 - 20 seconds An adult’s short term memory

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

Unique Human Combinations % Mannerism, Personality & Feeling Sub-Types Out of 36 Possible Types Unique Human Combinations 20% 1T 1K 1M 1B 33% 50% 66% 80%

New Word: Bemes Bemes Genes Design Elements of Mind/Nootype Design Elements of Body/Phenotype

Darwinian Phenomena Can Rebuild With Mindfiles Can Rebuild With Datafiles Can Rebuild With Nano-Bio Made of Neuron States Made of Symbols Made of DNA Make Self Make Culture Make Proteins Bemes Memes Genes

Let’s Get Practical
Digital Video/Photos
Blogs & Diaries
Psych Tests & Lists
Bainbridge Surveys
Sensecam Data
As Others See Me
Lifenaut.com; Cyberev.com

Bemes Are Organized Into Mindfiles at Cyberev.com

Bemes Are Also Recorded Into Mindfiles at Lifenaut.com

One Hour a Day of Mindfile Deposits Is Enough
5 Years to Complete 100,000 Bainbridges
5 Years to Upload, Label & Emotion-Code 100K Photos
2000 Hours of You on Video! (In 5 Yrs)

Outline of Talk

Definitions of Life
Biology
Thermodynamic
Information Theory
Legal

According to Biologists, Life Is That Which
Is Organized
Takes Energy from Environment
Responds to Stimuli
Reproduces
Develops
Adapts to Environment

Do Mindfiles Preserve Life? No Autonomy Multi-Platforms Adapt to Environment No Autonomy Mindfiles Grow Develop Only Viral Copy Mindfiles Reproduce Not all Stimuli Eg Chatbots Responsive Not the Bits Electricity Extract Energy Not Enough Data Structure Organized I Say NO I Say YES Biological Criteria

Thermodynamic & Information Theoretic Definitions of Life
Thermodynamic: Localized decrease in entropy
Information Theoretic: Sufficiently ordered information so as to recreate a being

100,000+ Bainbridge Questions  Local Entropy & Preserve Order

Geo-Coded Bemes  Local Entropy & Preserve Order

Are Mindfiles IT or Thermodynamically Alive? Can’t Be Quantum If Sufficiently Detailed IT Replicable Not Growing When Static Order Grows With Uploads Continuous Increase Not Localized Enough Digital Storage Media Localized Region Mindfiles Are NOT Alive Mindfiles ARE Alive Factor

So, Do Mindfiles Preserve Life? I Say YES Just Say NO “ It’s a tautological debate.”

So, the Lawyers Have Decided…And Re-Decided Clinical Death: The cessation of heartbeat and breathing. Source:  DeSpelder LA. Strickland AL. 2005. The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying. 6th Ed. New York, N.Y.: McGraw Hill. P. 211
Brain Death: An individual who has sustained either
(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.

When Technology Advanced, the Definition of Life Changed

Ergo, When Mindfiles Are Revived, They’ll Be Called Alive Dead Heart + No Transplant = S/he Is Dead Dead Heart + Transplant = S/he Was Alive Dead Mind + No Mindplant = S/he Is Dead Dead Mind + Mindplant = S/he Was Alive If brain functions, such as memory, are retained ex vivo isn’t the person still alive?

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
Is the information of a life equivalent to a life?

Outline of Talk

Revival Via Mindware
Software that enables equivalent functionality to a mind from which mindfiles were abstracted
“ Auto-tunes” based on processing of mindfiles

Antecedents of Mindware
Gameware Avatars
Autonomous Cars
Social Chatbots
AI Engines
E.g. Novamente
Neuro-Electronic Mapping

Less Than 30 Years to Mindware Revivals

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

Outline of Talk

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

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!

“Downloading is Pretty Fucking Far From Suicide”

Getting Practical Again Got Cyber-Conscious? (Mindfile Trustor Help) 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) Legislatures Set Standards (Forum Shopping Begins)

Outline of Talk

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

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.

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

We See Now the Vanguard of Transbodism
Tattoos
Body Piercing
Cosmetic Surgery
Device Implants
Virtual Living
Elaine Davidson, the world's most pierced woman.

What Is Radical Now; Will Soon Be Passé
Tattoos
Body Piercing
Cosmetic Surgery
Device Implants
Virtual Living

100,000 Hips & Knees Are Titaniumized a Year
Tattoos
Body Piercing
Cosmetic Surgery
Device Implants
Virtual Living

We Can Take Any Form In Data & Export It In Foglet
Tattoos
Body Piercing
Cosmetic Surgery
Device Implants
Virtual Living

Astral Projection Is Always Available, If We Let Go
Tattoos
Body Piercing
Cosmetic Surgery
Device Implants
Virtual Living

Mindloading to Neurons Is < 30 Years Off MRI Resolution Device Size Neural Interfaces

Outline of Talk

How These Concepts Hang Together Mindware Revives Consciousness Mindware Is a Zombie Bust Deposit Mindfiles Can’t Be Bothered Live Die Wasted Time Die Die

Terasem Hypotheses
1. The creation of sufficiently detailed mindfiles will enable future mindware to revive an analog of the consciousness that created the mindfiles.
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.

CyBeRev’s Photo Reactions Tool Helps Test 1 st Terasem Hypothesis

Lifenaut’s Beme-Sequencing Tool Helps Test 1 st Hypothesis

Come Help Test the Terasem Hypotheses!
www.cyberev.com
www.lifenaut.com
Free, Fun & Possibly Life-Saving!

Acknowledgements
Temple Fortson, Research & Editorial
E. Nadler, Transmetropolitan Cartoon
Andy Warhol, Freud Images
Ralph Merkle, 2x2 Matrix Choice
Alex Grey, Visionary Art
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