Cybernetic Biostasis E

Cybernetic Biostasis:Use of Digital Mindfiles to Preserve Life Pending Revival Via Mindware,

Cyber-Consciousness & Mindloading

Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D.

[email protected]

TransVision07 ~ Chicago

2007-07-24 2030 GMT

04/10/23 [email protected] 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?


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…

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


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

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New Word: Bemes

Bemes

Genes

Design Elements of Mind/Nootype

Design Elements of Body/Phenotype


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


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)


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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?

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


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?

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


So, Do Mindfiles Preserve Life?

I SayYES

JustSayNO

“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?


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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


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


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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


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)


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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


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

MeditationLucky Diamond Rich is the world's most tattooed person


We See Now the Vanguard of Transbodism


Meditation

Elaine Davidson, the world's most pierced woman.


What Is Radical Now; Will Soon Be Passé


Meditation


100,000 Hips & Knees Are Titaniumized a Year


Meditation


We Can Take Any Form In Data & Export It In Foglet


Meditation


Astral Projection Is Always Available, If We Let Go


Meditation


Mindloading to Neurons Is < 30 Years Off


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How These Concepts Hang Together

Mindware RevivesConsciousness

Mindware Is aZombie Bust

DepositMindfiles

Can’t BeBothered

Live DieWasted 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 1st Terasem Hypothesis


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


Come Help Test the Terasem Hypotheses!

• www.cyberev.com• www.lifenaut.com• Free, Fun & Possibly Life-Saving!

http://www.cyberev.com/

http://www.lifenaut.com/


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


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

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