technological resurrection
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Classification of the approaches to the technological resurrection
We have a problem: death
Death is the loss of the information and it could be reversed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-theoretic_death
“Technological resurrection” is reconstruction of a person based on the information
about his personality
(The problem of personal identity will be solved in future and we will not discuss it here. We assume for now that
informational equivalence is enough)More about personal identity
There are many possible ways to reconstruct information about a human mind
We suggest classification from most plausible to least possible
Prepared while alive
Superintelligence driven
New physical discoveries
Use of “quantum immortality”
Partial resurrection
Transformative resurrection
The best ways to the resurrection: prepared while the person is still alive.
Cryonics, link
Plastination, link
Digital immortality, link
Brain scanning Not available now
Future superintelligence will be able to reconstruct people,
who’s resurrection was not prepared
Future superintelligence could use something called “quantum archaeology”
Technical feasibility is not clear, as what is currently called “quantum teleportation” is not allowing data transfer
Possible discovery of the new laws of physics
and changes of the world model open new ways to the resurrection
New physical laws could make information retrieval possible:
• Reading information from the past,
• Wormholes, • Time machines, • Parallel worlds, • Recovery of the lost information
via the new types of traces
Changes of the world model:
• We are in the simulation, and it records everything
• Aliens exist and record data about us
“Quantum immortality” could help technological resurrection
QI improves subjective chances of
cryonics.
QI allows creation of the “universal problem
solver”, which could be used for the resurrection
of other people
http://lesswrong.com/lw/n7u/the_map_of_quantum_big_world_immortality/
Partial resurrection: only part of the
information is retrieved
• Reconstruction based on the expectations of the relatives
• The same DNA-based clone, educated in the new conditions, partly similar to his past culture; • Improved version of a person
The new person is only partly similar to the previous one,
according to the values of the “resurrectors”
Transformative resurrection:
not a person, but something else
• Theatre: transformation during game: cosplay, dialogue of voices
• Life inside the memory of another man - in dreams, in fantasies; shared brain
• Transformation into qualia, mood, image, symbol
Transformative social resurrection:
• Foundation: an organisation continues the projects of the person after he died
• Museum: personal belongings, archive, research institute, catalogue-raisonne
• Biography, biopic movie • Collected works, chat-bot, books • Children • Family, • Monuments • Legacy, memories of people, heroization • Preservation of the cell line and body parts,
mummy • The embodiment of values and ideas • Symbolic reincarnation: name.
Transcendental resurrection:
this is a category for all known religion believes
• Physical resurrection according to God’s will • Confluence with God • Reincarnation • Afterlife • Transformation into transcendental
Full map
History of Russian Cosmism
Fedorov (son of duke Gagarin)
Idea or resurrection
KorolevSpace rockets
constructor
Tsiolkovsky space colonisation
Idea to solve overpopulation
GagarinFun of Tsiolkovsky
fist cosmonaut
Two types of the immortalityand two corresponding types
of resurrectionSubjective immortality:
immortality from the point of view of the observer
(based on experiences and memories)
Objective immortality: immortality from the point of view
of the society (based on expectation and behaviour)
Examples: “quantum immortality”
Examples: “digital immortality”,
foundation, DNA-clones
The main problem: people do not want
technological resurrection
Religious concerns: But Jesus Christ was first transhumanist
Identity problem But superintelligent AI will solve it,
now it is just a chance to win
No practical steps: But digital immortality recording
could be done almost for free
Best ways of the resurrection
• Sooner • In a better place • Together with friends • Without errors
Prepared by Alexey Turchin, Foundation Science for Life Extension,