An estimation of the number of civilizations in our galaxy based upon the Drake Equation and a deduction that it is rare for planets to evolve life more complex than bacteria but that once such life does evolve it is rare for it to be extinguished. Consequently, the number of civilizations in the galaxy is proportional to a one-in-a-million probability of transatmospheric life evolving times a tens of millions of years lifespan for such civilizations. These calculations imply a mean distance between civilizations' home worlds of thousands of light years and a mean distribution of civilizations in our galaxy of about one per few billion stars. This necessitates a very sustained SETI effort. The presentation concludes that it is important for us to advance the Universal Declaration of Human Rights today because this paves the way for our civilization to last much longer, especially by embracing migration across national borders as a forerunner of migration across substrates, such as from flesh-based consciousness to our evolution into cyberconsciousness and transplanetary existence.
What is the Lifetime of an Intelligent Communicating Civilization in the Drak...martine
Presentation on the Lifetime of a Transatmospheric Civilization given at the Drake Equation Panel Discussion, Featuring Frank Drake Himself, at Harvard's Sanders Theater During Cambridge Science Week
(Xrisk 101): Existential Risk for Interstellar AdvocatesHeath Rezabek
(This paper is based on a joint presentation given at Icarus Interstellar’s Starship Congress, August 15-18, 2013. This work forms the basis for Project Astrolabe, at Icarus Interstellar.) http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/introducing-project-astrolabe-navigating-the-future-of-civilization/
Though the concept of Existential Risk or Xrisk denotes risks to our very existence, it will be shown that Xrisk is far from intractable or imponderable. Because of the subtypes described in our session below (Permanent Stagnation and Flawed Realization), humanity can do much to improve the prospects for Earth-originating intelligent life tomorrow by working to improve its prospects today.
This begins with directly mitigating the extinction risks that can be mitigated, and with safeguarding—to the best of humanity’s abilities—the scientific, cultural, and biological record so that future recoveries are possible if needed. The Vessel proposal attempts a unified approach to this work. If existential risk is well mitigated, the prospects for Earth- originating life over the very long term are shown to be expansive.
(Xrisk 101) is divided into two parts, and mirrors the format of the original presentation. The first part, authored by Heath Rezabek, will cover the fundamentals of Xrisk, and update on the Vessel project, a framework for preserving the cultural, scientific, and biological record in resilient facilities, on Earth and beyond. The second part, authored by Nick Nielsen, will explore the longer term implications of overcoming Xrisk for the future of civilization.
What is the Lifetime of an Intelligent Communicating Civilization in the Drak...martine
Presentation on the Lifetime of a Transatmospheric Civilization given at the Drake Equation Panel Discussion, Featuring Frank Drake Himself, at Harvard's Sanders Theater During Cambridge Science Week
(Xrisk 101): Existential Risk for Interstellar AdvocatesHeath Rezabek
(This paper is based on a joint presentation given at Icarus Interstellar’s Starship Congress, August 15-18, 2013. This work forms the basis for Project Astrolabe, at Icarus Interstellar.) http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/introducing-project-astrolabe-navigating-the-future-of-civilization/
Though the concept of Existential Risk or Xrisk denotes risks to our very existence, it will be shown that Xrisk is far from intractable or imponderable. Because of the subtypes described in our session below (Permanent Stagnation and Flawed Realization), humanity can do much to improve the prospects for Earth-originating intelligent life tomorrow by working to improve its prospects today.
This begins with directly mitigating the extinction risks that can be mitigated, and with safeguarding—to the best of humanity’s abilities—the scientific, cultural, and biological record so that future recoveries are possible if needed. The Vessel proposal attempts a unified approach to this work. If existential risk is well mitigated, the prospects for Earth- originating life over the very long term are shown to be expansive.
(Xrisk 101) is divided into two parts, and mirrors the format of the original presentation. The first part, authored by Heath Rezabek, will cover the fundamentals of Xrisk, and update on the Vessel project, a framework for preserving the cultural, scientific, and biological record in resilient facilities, on Earth and beyond. The second part, authored by Nick Nielsen, will explore the longer term implications of overcoming Xrisk for the future of civilization.
Xrisk 101 (2013 - Starship Congress - Full presentation, Nick Nielsen and Hea...Heath Rezabek
Slides Only, No Notes! For version with Notes, (first half only) see http://www.slideshare.net/heathrezabek/xrisk-101-existential-risk-for-interstellar-advocates-wnotes
The full version of a joint presentation at Starship Congress 2013, August 15-18, Dallas TX. First section by Heath Rezabek, second section by Nick Nielsen.
Kim Solez Singularity explained and promoted winter 2014Kim Solez ,
Dr. Kim Solez presents "The technological Singularity explained and promoted" in the Technology and Future of Medicine course on January 16, 2014, at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Copyright (c) 2014 JustMachines Inc.
Humans vs. Westworld: A Cultural Science Approach
By John Hartley
What does it mean to be human? What does technology have to do with that? And how do we know where “we” stop and the non-human world – natural and artificial – begins? These questions are ever more urgent as human action changes the natural environment, while human labour is increasingly automated. What will become of us when robots achieve consciousness? The answers seem to depend much more on culture than on technology; and popular speculative fiction seems to be well ahead of formal scholarship in thinking them through. Using a cultural science framework, this presentation looks at how the problem of the human is imagined in two current hit TV series – Westworld (USA) and Humans (UK). What is at stake in their very different answers to the same troubling questions?
Kim Solez Singularity explained promoted winter 2015Kim Solez ,
Dr. Kim Solez presents "The Technological Singularity Explained and Promoted" on January 13th, 2015 in the course on Technology and the Future of Medicine LABMP 590 http://www.singularitycourse.com at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Copyright (c) 2015, JustMachines Inc.
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Narrative Essay: Gender equality essays. Gender essay. Argumentative Essay On Gender And Gender | annahof-laab.at. Essay on gender. Psychology gender essay. (PDF) Sexuality and Gender Finals Research Paper. Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction by Teresa .... Gender Roles Essay | Essay on Gender Roles for Students and Children in ....
Kim Solez Singularity explained and promoted fall 2016Kim Solez ,
Dr. Kim Solez presents "The Singularity Explained and Promoted" September 6, 2016 in the Technology and Future of Medicine course LABMP 590 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Copyright (c) 2016, JustMachines Inc.
Xrisk 101 (2013 - Starship Congress - Full presentation, Nick Nielsen and Hea...Heath Rezabek
Slides Only, No Notes! For version with Notes, (first half only) see http://www.slideshare.net/heathrezabek/xrisk-101-existential-risk-for-interstellar-advocates-wnotes
The full version of a joint presentation at Starship Congress 2013, August 15-18, Dallas TX. First section by Heath Rezabek, second section by Nick Nielsen.
Kim Solez Singularity explained and promoted winter 2014Kim Solez ,
Dr. Kim Solez presents "The technological Singularity explained and promoted" in the Technology and Future of Medicine course on January 16, 2014, at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Copyright (c) 2014 JustMachines Inc.
Humans vs. Westworld: A Cultural Science Approach
By John Hartley
What does it mean to be human? What does technology have to do with that? And how do we know where “we” stop and the non-human world – natural and artificial – begins? These questions are ever more urgent as human action changes the natural environment, while human labour is increasingly automated. What will become of us when robots achieve consciousness? The answers seem to depend much more on culture than on technology; and popular speculative fiction seems to be well ahead of formal scholarship in thinking them through. Using a cultural science framework, this presentation looks at how the problem of the human is imagined in two current hit TV series – Westworld (USA) and Humans (UK). What is at stake in their very different answers to the same troubling questions?
Kim Solez Singularity explained promoted winter 2015Kim Solez ,
Dr. Kim Solez presents "The Technological Singularity Explained and Promoted" on January 13th, 2015 in the course on Technology and the Future of Medicine LABMP 590 http://www.singularitycourse.com at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Copyright (c) 2015, JustMachines Inc.
Narrative Essay: Gender equality essays. Gender essay. Argumentative Essay On Gender And Gender | annahof-laab.at. Essay on gender. Psychology gender essay. (PDF) Sexuality and Gender Finals Research Paper. Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction by Teresa .... Gender Roles Essay | Essay on Gender Roles for Students and Children in .... Sample essay on gender learning. Gender Studies Essay | GCST1602 - Introduction to Gender Studies - USYD .... Gender roles essay - Reliable Essay Writers That Deserve Your Trust. Essay Gender Inequality – Telegraph. Society & Culture - Gender Essay Question | Society and Culture - Year .... Sex Vs Gender Essay for Students and Children | 500 Words Essay. Sex and Gender: Understanding Differences in Sociological Context Free .... Gender Essay Sample 3. Essay Writing 1 | Gender | Gender Studies. Presentation of Gender essay. Reflection Essay: Gender essay topics. Sex Vs Gender Essay | Essay on Sex Vs Gender for Students and Children .... Analytical Essay: Essays on gender equality. Gender Studies Essay- Contemporary Society | Gender Role | Masculinity. Amazing Gender Inequality Essay ~ Thatsnotus. Conclusion gender role essay. Language & Gender Essay - A-Level English - Marked by Teachers.com. Gender Studies Essay | GEN110 - Foundations in Gender Studies - MQ ....
Narrative Essay: Gender equality essays. Gender essay. Argumentative Essay On Gender And Gender | annahof-laab.at. Essay on gender. Psychology gender essay. (PDF) Sexuality and Gender Finals Research Paper. Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction by Teresa .... Gender Roles Essay | Essay on Gender Roles for Students and Children in ....
Kim Solez Singularity explained and promoted fall 2016Kim Solez ,
Dr. Kim Solez presents "The Singularity Explained and Promoted" September 6, 2016 in the Technology and Future of Medicine course LABMP 590 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Copyright (c) 2016, JustMachines Inc.
Martine's personal experience and projections as to the interchangeability of biology and technology. These experiences span translating natural navigational skills into technological capabilities via satellite systems, and expressing natural communication via the electronic voices of satellite radio. Failures of biology and shown to be fixable with technology performing biological functions. Consciousness itself, purportedly a uniquely human trait is also shown to be technologically replicable.3
Explanation that the lifetime of civilizations is immortal once they cross the atmospheric frontier. Therefore there are other civilizations existing in our galaxy right now. However, there is but a one in ten billion chance that any given planet generates transatmospheric life, so we should treasure the life we have by moving to space, transcending biology and respecting human rights for all.
On the 10th of June each year Terasem celebrates one of its five annual holidays, the Festival of Trees in honor of Nature. This booklet describes the ceremony for this Festival, which occurs around dinner.
200 Years After Frankenstein: Intertwined Histories of Artificial Consciousn...martine
Concepts of civil rights and artificial consciousness were both born around 200 years ago, starting with Mary Shelley's classic Frankenstein and the fight of progressives to end Britain's slave trade. As people have learned to award rights to all people who value them, regardless of gender, skin tone or ethnicity, people have subliminally absorbed the lesson that even artificially created consciousness, if it values human rights, deserves to have them.
Brains are to consciousness like birds are to flightmartine
Computers can achieve consciousness, despite their simplicity compared to brains, just as aircraft can achieve flight, despite their simplicity compared to birds.
Geoethical Frankenfolk: 200 Years After Mary Shelleymartine
200 years after Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein we face similar issues. In the early 1800s the discovery of galvanism and chemical principles gave rise to excitement about the extension of human life. Today the development of nanotechnology and biotech products give rise to hope about extending human life. Fears of frankenfood are similar to fears of Frankenstein. We ultimately must embrace the fact that we are all frankenfolks and we are best off evolving in accordance with geoethics.
Haggadah is the Hebrew word meaning "to tell." This ppt tells the story of human freedom from bondage, starting with the Hebrews from Egypt, continuing through the African Americans, and concluding with our current battles against disease.
What Kind of Persons Are Bio-Electronic Humans?martine
Are electronic or software beings that meet the biological definition of "life" and that persuade psychologists they really feel human just "corporate persons" like a company or are they "constitutional persons" like naturally born citizens? This presentation was given at the 3rd Colloquium on the Law of Transbeman Persons, Space Coast, Florida, 2007.
Earliest Galaxies in the JADES Origins Field: Luminosity Function and Cosmic ...Sérgio Sacani
We characterize the earliest galaxy population in the JADES Origins Field (JOF), the deepest
imaging field observed with JWST. We make use of the ancillary Hubble optical images (5 filters
spanning 0.4−0.9µm) and novel JWST images with 14 filters spanning 0.8−5µm, including 7 mediumband filters, and reaching total exposure times of up to 46 hours per filter. We combine all our data
at > 2.3µm to construct an ultradeep image, reaching as deep as ≈ 31.4 AB mag in the stack and
30.3-31.0 AB mag (5σ, r = 0.1” circular aperture) in individual filters. We measure photometric
redshifts and use robust selection criteria to identify a sample of eight galaxy candidates at redshifts
z = 11.5 − 15. These objects show compact half-light radii of R1/2 ∼ 50 − 200pc, stellar masses of
M⋆ ∼ 107−108M⊙, and star-formation rates of SFR ∼ 0.1−1 M⊙ yr−1
. Our search finds no candidates
at 15 < z < 20, placing upper limits at these redshifts. We develop a forward modeling approach to
infer the properties of the evolving luminosity function without binning in redshift or luminosity that
marginalizes over the photometric redshift uncertainty of our candidate galaxies and incorporates the
impact of non-detections. We find a z = 12 luminosity function in good agreement with prior results,
and that the luminosity function normalization and UV luminosity density decline by a factor of ∼ 2.5
from z = 12 to z = 14. We discuss the possible implications of our results in the context of theoretical
models for evolution of the dark matter halo mass function.
Seminar of U.V. Spectroscopy by SAMIR PANDASAMIR PANDA
Spectroscopy is a branch of science dealing the study of interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy refers to absorption spectroscopy or reflect spectroscopy in the UV-VIS spectral region.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy is an analytical method that can measure the amount of light received by the analyte.
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Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
(May 29th, 2024) Advancements in Intravital Microscopy- Insights for Preclini...Scintica Instrumentation
Intravital microscopy (IVM) is a powerful tool utilized to study cellular behavior over time and space in vivo. Much of our understanding of cell biology has been accomplished using various in vitro and ex vivo methods; however, these studies do not necessarily reflect the natural dynamics of biological processes. Unlike traditional cell culture or fixed tissue imaging, IVM allows for the ultra-fast high-resolution imaging of cellular processes over time and space and were studied in its natural environment. Real-time visualization of biological processes in the context of an intact organism helps maintain physiological relevance and provide insights into the progression of disease, response to treatments or developmental processes.
In this webinar we give an overview of advanced applications of the IVM system in preclinical research. IVIM technology is a provider of all-in-one intravital microscopy systems and solutions optimized for in vivo imaging of live animal models at sub-micron resolution. The system’s unique features and user-friendly software enables researchers to probe fast dynamic biological processes such as immune cell tracking, cell-cell interaction as well as vascularization and tumor metastasis with exceptional detail. This webinar will also give an overview of IVM being utilized in drug development, offering a view into the intricate interaction between drugs/nanoparticles and tissues in vivo and allows for the evaluation of therapeutic intervention in a variety of tissues and organs. This interdisciplinary collaboration continues to drive the advancements of novel therapeutic strategies.
THE IMPORTANCE OF SETI AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN LIGHT OF A DRAKE EQUATION ESTIMATE OF THE NUMBER OF CIVILIZATIONS IN OUR GALAXY
1. What is the Lifetime of Civilizations in a
(Transatmospheric) Communicative State
Martine Rothblatt
2017 Cambridge Science Festival
“Are We Alone” with Frank Drake
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University
7. FOR ME, N ≈ L*fc WHERE L >>106 & fc<10-6
If fc = 10-7, & L = 108, then N=10 & d = 16 KLY
{1/107 extant species are fc & we are 90% bacteria}
8. What Can We Do Now?
TEACH THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION
OF HUMAN RIGHTS;
GRANT CITIZENSHIP & RESPECT TO
UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS –
They Pave the Way for Our Own
Immigration from Cyberspace;
AGITATE FOR ‘FORM EQUALITY.’
Editor's Notes
I’m going to make three main points today. First, once civilizations go transatmospheric they don’t go away. Second, there is a continuity of civilization even as they transcend substrate and planetary residence. Third, they archive old technologies even as they transcend them.
Transcending substrate implies transcending extinction. As a multi-substrate civilization we will be able to transcend either biological, or cybernetic, or planetary extinction events. Extraterrestrial realms out-of-bounds to biology can be accessed by cybernetic substrate. Software viruses can be blocked at biological borders. Threats to biology can be escaped in software, and threats to our planet can be escaped off-planet. It is of course possible that some Gamma Ray Burst can simultaneously knock out biology, software and the solar neighborhood, but the likelihood of triple trigger extinction events is vanishingly smaller than single trigger extinction events. Especially since the quadfecta of this civilization’s existence – in skin, in software, on planets and off-planets – will be replicated at ever greater distances from the earth. I believe the transatmospheric communications time for a civilization is measured in millions if not billions of years.
Schrodinger taught in his book WHAT IS LIFE that BIOLOGY Is Something that increases negative entropy by streaming order onto itself. Things that do that also happen to meet the biologist’s definition of life, namely be organized, exchange matter/energy with the environment, respond-to-stimuli, reproduce, develop and adapt.
TECHNOLOGY is also Something that can also increase negative entropy by streaming order onto itself, although pursuant to intent, rather than a blindly evolved evolutionary code.
I define INTENT as the Simulation, Selection & Satisfaction of alternative realities.
Humanity increases negative entropy in two ways. We use our genes, which encode formulas for rearranging atoms, and we use what I call our “bemes”, which are elementary units of beingness or thought. Like genes, bemes are transmissible, mutatable and selectable. Unlike genes, though, bemes can pass on to next generations acquired characteristics such as knowledge.
Biology, used with intent, is Technology
Self-Replicative Technology, is also Biology
A transatmospheric civilization not only transcends nationality, it transcends substrate and therefore includes non-biological extensions of itself.
These next few decades we are at an inflection point, in which we can continue our human civilization not only as biology, but also as technology. This has huge implications for how long our civilization will last because it can transcend either biological or technological threats, it can live on planet or off-planet, and it can evolve as Lamarck as well as Darwin imagined, through the inheritance of learned traits ie education.
To inspire people to develop consciousness software, or 'mindware', to activate our indicia of consciousness, or 'mindfiles', we created an early example of what a cyber-consciousness person might look like once their digital consciousness was downloaded into an android-type device. She looks a lot and thinks a bit like my partner Bina, although she thinks idiosyncratically and delights people from Steven Colbert to Morgan Freeman.
I consider her but a Kitty Hawk of cyberconsciousness, just a few seconds of thought. ut with everyone from Elon Musk at Tesla to hundreds of thousands of open-source mindware hackers around the world trying to out-SIRI and out-ALEXA each other with human consciousness operating systems, the day is close at hand that our digitized posts, preferences, recollections, feelings, beliefs, attitudes and values will come alive with a doppelganger of our own personality.
At that point, it will be a legal question, which will embed a psychological question, as to whether our technological creation is alive. Meeting the physicist’s and even biologist’s functional definitions of life will not be the problem. Our cyber-conscious extensions will carry forward our civilization because they will evolve in a an environment, a market, in which humans are the agents of selection. There is no market for a bad robot. There is a huge market for a robot to do stuff just like I would. There is a huge market for virtual minds that love human civilization.
This is why I believe the lifetime of our transatmospheric civilization is effectively immortal, at the very least transcending biological, cybernetic or planetary catastrophe. It is because our consciousness and ability to do things, like communicate, will operate in biological, cybernetic and hybrid forms, and that the cybernetic forms, in particular, will be well-adapted to the contra-biological conditions of outer space.
It is said that the human mind operates totally differently than computers. I agree. But similar functions arise from diverse forms. Consciousness is to brains as flight is to birds. We can fly differently, but increasingly similarly, with machines as with feathers. And while human brains are vastly more complex than any machine, that is no different than the fact that a Boeing’s several million parts are a drop in the bucket to the trillions of eukaryotic cells in a bird. Birds don’t need gas, but planes don’t need worms. I don’t think either worms or gas are very essential to human civilization.
I think a merging of human biology and technology are at hand, extending deeply into minds, thoughts, senses and emotions. The result will be an immortalization of human civilization as profound as our mastery of the biotechnology of agriculture, itself considered a hallmark of human civilization.
I believe civilizations will have an interest to continue communicating transatmospherically, continuing old-school RF communication and such once they’ve all gone quantum computing. Arthur C. Clarke was a very wise man, and he taught that “no form of communication has ever become extinct, although they become less and less important as the technological horizon widens.”
Indeed, even with all of our fiber optics and streaming digital cellular services there are more satellites being launched now than ever before. And there is such vast room for ever more clever ways to find the Holy Grail of social media – twinkling tweets, those from distant stars – I feel confident that generation after generation after generation of humans, be they part bio or pure cogno, will find it exciting and well worth the insignificant fraction of their economic wealth to both listen to and send radio waves in space. It will never get boring, because it will always be challenging, and it will cost an ever-diminishing fraction of social resources.
AI-driven space ships will operate SETI systems with ever greater synthetic apertures, even lightyears in baseline, and in ever quieter areas, of ever deeper space. With our digital doppelgangers we can even have two job locations in tandem – Radio Astronomers can simultaneously operate their identities on the dark side of the Moon and on the bright slopes of Mauna Kea.
THAT WHICH IS EMERGENT RESHAPES THAT FROM WHICH IT EMERGED, i.e., PROGENY INTEGRATES PEDIGREE. Hence, we do not leave our human souls behind when we leave randomly degrading flesh bodies behind. Instead, we’ll use synthetic biology to bring our flesh bodies along with our virtual minds. When something is amazing, humans don’t let go of it. Hundreds of thousands of years after we discovered fire, we still delight in making fire. OK, it is disciplined in a fireplace, and perhaps further disciplined with a gas flow and an electric ignition. But we love flames. We love human figures too, the touch, the feel, the sensations, the surprises. They aren’t going away.
Synthetic Biology is our most salient tool enabling our bodies to keep up with our cyberconscious minds. While the most important code is the mindware software code of individual humans and shared humanity, it really integrates pedigree DNA code of our bodies. With synthetic biology we can compute with DNA, shaping ever healthier and more enjoyable bodies that will be able to integrate with ever healthier and longer-lived minds. I think technological civilizations are a one-in-many-millions occurrence, but once they occur, I think they will treasure and preserve museum-like every technological step they took.
What can we do now? We can teach the universal declaration of human rights, for that is the surest way to keep human civilization going into the cyberconscious continuation. Related to that is to grant respect to undocumented immigrants – they are the trailblazers for our own virtual selve’s immigration from cyberspace. Finally, agitate for ‘form equality.’ The job of justice is never done, and for us to continue our civilization endlessly, we need to endlessly attend to its needs for justice, such as ensuring that our cyberconscious bretheren are considered full members of human civilization.