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1. Slide 1: Cybernetic Biostasis: Use of Digital Mindfiles to Preserve Life Pending Revival Via Mindware, Cyber-Consciousness & Mindloading Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D. Martine4@gmail.com TransVision07 ~ Chicago 2007-07-24 2030 GMT
2. Slide 2: 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? 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 2
3. Slide 3: Digital Mindfiles • Computer-Storable Reflections of: – Mannerisms – Personality – Recollections – Feelings – Beliefs – Attitudes – Values 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 3
4. Slide 4: 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 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 4
5. Slide 5: Close Enough is Good Enough 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 5
6. Slide 6: Caravaggio’s Vision of Abraham Ready to Sacrifice His Son 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 6
7. Slide 7: Rembrandt’s View of Abraham’s Readiness to Sacrifice His Son There are many different But there ways to are a limited remember number of something… patterns of recollection! 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 7
8. Slide 8: 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 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 8
9. Slide 9: Fascinating Mindfile Facts: Estimated Number of… An adult’s short term Up to 7 items for 3 - 20 memory seconds Recognizable faces Several hundred Personality sub-types Few dozen Universal facial 6 expressions Adult’s thoughts retained 7% - 13% per day Emotions Few dozen 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 9
10. Slide 10: 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 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 10
11. Slide 11: Unique Human Combinations 1T 1B Unique Human Combinations 1M 1K 50% 80% 20% 33% 66% % Mannerism, Personality & Feeling Sub-Types Out of 36 Possible Types 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 11
12. Slide 12: New Word: Bemes Design Elements of Bemes Mind/Nootype Genes Design Elements of Body/Phenotype 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 12
13. Slide 13: Darwinian Phenomena Genes Memes Bemes Make Proteins Make Culture Make Self Made of DNA Made of Symbols Made of Neuron States Can Rebuild With Can Rebuild With Can Rebuild With Nano-Bio Datafiles Mindfiles 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 13
14. Slide 14: Let’s Get Practical • Digital Video/Photos • Blogs & Diaries • Psych Tests & Lists • Bainbridge Surveys • Sensecam Data • As Others See Me • Lifenaut.com; Cyberev.com 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 14
15. Slide 15: Bemes Are Organized Into Mindfiles at Cyberev.com 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 15
16. Slide 16: Bemes Are Also Recorded Into Mindfiles at Lifenaut.com 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 16
17. Slide 17: 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) 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 17
18. Slide 18: 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? 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 18
19. Slide 19: Definitions of Life • Biology • Thermodynamic • Information Theory • Legal 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 19
20. Slide 20: According to Biologists, Life Is That Which • Is Organized • Takes Energy from Environment • Responds to Stimuli • Reproduces • Develops • Adapts to Environment 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 20
21. Slide 21: 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 Multi-Platforms No Autonomy Environment 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 21
22. Slide 22: Thermodynamic & Information Theoretic Definitions of Life • Thermodynamic: Localized decrease in entropy • Information Theoretic: Sufficiently ordered information so as to recreate a being 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 22
23. Slide 23: 100,000+ Bainbridge Questions  Local Entropy & Preserve Order 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 23
24. Slide 24: Geo-Coded Bemes  Local Entropy & Preserve Order 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 24
25. Slide 25: Are Mindfiles IT or Thermodynamically Alive? Factor Mindfiles ARE Mindfiles Are Alive NOT Alive Localized Digital Storage Not Localized Region Media Enough Continuous Order Grows Not Growing Increase With Uploads When Static IT Replicable If Sufficiently Can’t Be Detailed Quantum 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 25
26. Slide 26: So, Do Mindfiles Preserve Life? Just Say I Say NO YES “It’s a tautological debate.” 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 26
27. Slide 27: So, the Lawyers Have Decided…And Re-Decided Clinical Death: Brain Death: The cessation of An individual who has heartbeat and sustained either (1) irreversible cessation of breathing. circulatory and respiratory Source: DeSpelder LA. Strickland AL. 2005. The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying. 6th Ed. New York, N.Y.: McGraw Hill. functions, or P. 211 (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. 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 27
28. Slide 28: When Technology Advanced, the Definition of Life Changed 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 28
29. Slide 29: 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? 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 29
30. Slide 30: Do Mindfiles Preserve Life • Preserved life ≠being alive • “Preserved” means “protect…something from danger of being killed or damaged.” • Mindfiles per se Is the information of a life equivalent to a life? protect information of a life 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 30
31. Slide 31: 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? 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 31
32. Slide 32: Revival Via Mindware • Software that enables equivalent functionality to a mind from which mindfiles were abstracted • “Auto-tunes” based on processing of mindfiles 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 32
33. Slide 33: Antecedents of Mindware • Gameware Avatars • Autonomous Cars • Social Chatbots • AI Engines – E.g. Novamente • Neuro-Electronic Mapping 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 33
34. Slide 34: Less Than 30 Years to Mindware Revivals 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 34
35. Slide 35: 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 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 35
36. Slide 36: 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? 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 36
37. Slide 37: 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 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 37
38. Slide 38: 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! 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 38
39. Slide 39: “Downloading is Pretty Fucking Far From Suicide” 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 39
40. Slide 40: Getting Practical Again Legislatures Set Standards Got Cyber-Conscious? (Forum Shopping Begins) (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) 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 40
41. Slide 41: 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? 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 41
42. Slide 42: 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 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 42
43. Slide 43: 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. 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 43
44. Slide 44: 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 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 44
45. Slide 45: 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. 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 45
46. Slide 46: What Is Radical Now; Will Soon Be Passé • Tattoos • Body Piercing • Cosmetic Surgery • Device Implants • Virtual Living • Transcendental Meditation 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 46
47. Slide 47: 100,000 Hips & Knees Are Titaniumized a Year • Tattoos • Body Piercing • Cosmetic Surgery • Device Implants • Virtual Living • Transcendental Meditation 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 47
48. Slide 48: We Can Take Any Form In Data & Export It In Foglet • Tattoos • Body Piercing • Cosmetic Surgery • Device Implants • Virtual Living • Transcendental Meditation 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 48
49. Slide 49: Astral Projection Is Always Available, If We Let Go • Tattoos • Body Piercing • Cosmetic Surgery • Device Implants • Virtual Living • Transcendental Meditation 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 49
50. Slide 50: Mindloading to Neurons Is < 30 Years Off 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 50
51. Slide 51: 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? 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 51
52. Slide 52: How These Concepts Hang Together Mindware Revives Mindware Is a Consciousness Zombie Bust Deposit Live Die Mindfiles Wasted Time Can’t Be Die Die Bothered 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 52
53. Slide 53: Terasem Hypotheses 2. Consciousness 1. The creation of revived from sufficiently detailed mindfiles can be mindfiles will enable downloaded into future mindware to nano-bio and/or revive an analog of cellular-regenerated the consciousness bodies to joyfully that created the continue the life mindfiles. reflected in the mindfiles. 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 53
54. Slide 54: CyBeRev’s Photo Reactions Tool Helps Test 1st Terasem Hypothesis 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 54
55. Slide 55: Lifenaut’s Beme-Sequencing Tool Helps Test 1st Hypothesis 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 55
56. Slide 56: Come Help Test the Terasem Hypotheses! • www.cyberev.com • www.lifenaut.com • Free, Fun & Possibly Life-Saving! 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 56
57. Slide 57: Acknowledgements • Temple Fortson, Research & Editorial • E. Nadler, Transmetropolitan Cartoon • Andy Warhol, Freud Images • Ralph Merkle, 2x2 Matrix Choice • Alex Grey, Visionary Art • The Heroes Who’ve Inspired Me 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 57
58. Slide 58: Heroes Who’ve Inspired Me 07/23/07 martine4@gmail.com 58
59. Slide 59: Unique Mannerism Variations Human Personality Present in Variation Feeling Average Combinations Variations Human 36 36 1 630 36 2 7140 36 3 58905 36 4 376992 36 5 1947792 36 6 8,347,680 36 7 30,260,340 36 8 94,143,280 36 9 254,186,856 36 10 600,805,296 36 11 1,251,677,700 36 12 2,310,789,600 36 13 3,796,297,200 36 14 5,567,902,560 36 15 7,307,872,110 36 16 8,597,496,600 36 17 9,075,135,300 36 18 8,597,496,600 36 19 7,307,872,110 36 20 5,567,902,560 36 21 3,796,297,200 36 22 2,310,789,600 36 23 1,251,677,700 36 24 600,805,296 36 25 254,186,856 36 26 94,143,280 36 27 30,260,340 36 28 8,347,680 36 29 1,947,792 36 30 376,992 36 31 58,905 36 32 7,140 36 33 630 36 34 36 36 35 1 36 36