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Use of Digital Mindfiles to Preserve Life Pending Revival Via Mindware, Cyber-Consciousness & Mindloading, Delivered at Transvision 07 Conference in ChicagoTRANSCRIPT
Cybernetic Biostasis:Use of Digital Mindfiles to Preserve Life Pending Revival Via Mindware,
Cyber-Consciousness & Mindloading
Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D.
TransVision07 ~ Chicago
2007-07-24 2030 GMT
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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?
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Digital Mindfiles
• Computer-Storable Reflections of:– Mannerisms– Personality– Recollections– Feelings– Beliefs– Attitudes– Values
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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
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Close Enough is Good Enough
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Caravaggio’s Vision of Abraham Ready to Sacrifice His Son
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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!
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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
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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
6
Adult’s thoughts retained per day
7% - 13%
Emotions Few dozen
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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
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Unique Human Combinations
% Mannerism, Personality & Feeling Sub-Types Out of 36 Possible Types
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33% 50% 66% 80%
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New Word: Bemes
Bemes
Genes
Design Elements of Mind/Nootype
Design Elements of Body/Phenotype
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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
Can Rebuild With Datafiles
Can Rebuild With Mindfiles
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Let’s Get Practical
• Digital Video/Photos• Blogs & Diaries• Psych Tests & Lists• Bainbridge Surveys• Sensecam Data• As Others See Me• Lifenaut.com;
Cyberev.com
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Bemes Are Organized Into Mindfiles at Cyberev.com
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Bemes Are Also Recorded Into Mindfiles at Lifenaut.com
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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)
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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?
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Definitions of Life
• Biology• Thermodynamic• Information Theory• Legal
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According to Biologists, Life Is That Which
• Is Organized • Takes Energy from
Environment• Responds to Stimuli• Reproduces• Develops• Adapts to Environment
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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
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Thermodynamic & Information Theoretic Definitions of Life
• Thermodynamic: Localized decrease in entropy
• Information Theoretic: Sufficiently ordered information so as to recreate a being
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100,000+ Bainbridge Questions Local Entropy & Preserve Order
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Geo-Coded Bemes Local Entropy & Preserve Order
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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
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So, Do Mindfiles Preserve Life?
I SayYES
JustSayNO
“It’s a tautological debate.”
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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.
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When Technology Advanced, the Definition of Life Changed
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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?
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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?
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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?
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Revival Via Mindware
• Software that enables equivalent functionality to a mind from which mindfiles were abstracted
• “Auto-tunes” based on processing of mindfiles
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Antecedents of Mindware
• Gameware Avatars• Autonomous Cars• Social Chatbots• AI Engines
– E.g. Novamente
• Neuro-Electronic Mapping
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Less Than 30 Years to Mindware Revivals
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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
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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?
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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
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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!
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“Downloading is Pretty Fucking Far From Suicide”
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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)
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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?
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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
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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.
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Revolutionary Forerunners of Mindloading & Sleeving
• Tattoos• Body Piercing• Cosmetic Surgery• Device Implants• Virtual Living• Transcendental
MeditationLucky Diamond Rich is the world's most tattooed person
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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.
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What Is Radical Now; Will Soon Be Passé
• Tattoos• Body Piercing• Cosmetic Surgery• Device Implants• Virtual Living• Transcendental
Meditation
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100,000 Hips & Knees Are Titaniumized a Year
• Tattoos• Body Piercing• Cosmetic Surgery• Device Implants• Virtual Living• Transcendental
Meditation
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We Can Take Any Form In Data & Export It In Foglet
• Tattoos• Body Piercing• Cosmetic Surgery• Device Implants• Virtual Living• Transcendental
Meditation
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Astral Projection Is Always Available, If We Let Go
• Tattoos• Body Piercing• Cosmetic Surgery• Device Implants• Virtual Living• Transcendental
Meditation
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Mindloading to Neurons Is < 30 Years Off
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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?
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How These Concepts Hang Together
Mindware RevivesConsciousness
Mindware Is aZombie Bust
DepositMindfiles
Can’t BeBothered
Live DieWasted Time
Die Die
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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.
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CyBeRev’s Photo Reactions Tool Helps Test 1st Terasem Hypothesis
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Lifenaut’s Beme-Sequencing Tool Helps Test 1st Hypothesis
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Come Help Test the Terasem Hypotheses!
• www.cyberev.com• www.lifenaut.com• Free, Fun & Possibly Life-Saving!
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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
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Heroes Who’ve Inspired Me
Unique Mannerism VariationsHuman Personality Present inVariation Feeling AverageCombinations Variations Human
36 36 1630 36 2
7140 36 358905 36 4
376992 36 51947792 36 6
8,347,680 36 730,260,340 36 894,143,280 36 9
254,186,856 36 10600,805,296 36 11
1,251,677,700 36 122,310,789,600 36 133,796,297,200 36 145,567,902,560 36 157,307,872,110 36 168,597,496,600 36 179,075,135,300 36 188,597,496,600 36 197,307,872,110 36 205,567,902,560 36 213,796,297,200 36 222,310,789,600 36 231,251,677,700 36 24
600,805,296 36 25254,186,856 36 26
94,143,280 36 2730,260,340 36 288,347,680 36 291,947,792 36 30
376,992 36 3158,905 36 32
7,140 36 33630 36 3436 36 35
1 36 36