[extropy-chat] [wta-talk] Bainbridg today in Transvision06 on personality capture vs info-resurrection

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

David,
it does not sound weird at all, and I am persuaded that capturing our
critical identity information and reconstructing it in other regions
of spacetime is a viable path to immortality. It is just that I don´t
think we have anything close to the required technology yet.
Text, Q/A sessions, video etc. represent, in my opinion, a channel
with a to small (by orders of magnitude) bandwidth for this
application. We need something much faster to capture a personality.
Perhaps with brain implants.
G.

On 8/18/06, david ish shalom <davidishalom1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> . Bainbridge in his gloomy but bright lecture today in Transvisiono6
> raised the issue of personality capture, in his own words: "record an
> individual's personality and genetic code, send them to distant planet
> and reconstitute the person there to begin a new life" and he
> continues: conducting a research and practical work on personality
> capture modules. a center for personality enhancement could flourish
> giving a service to capture, archive and computer-emulate clients
> and Bainbridge continue: "archive personalities, transfer them to
> computers, robots, and information systems and I find that rather than
> speculating or dwelling on developing philosophical ideas about it, I
> rather be practical, start where the already social sciences  ..know
> how to measure aspects of personality and continue from there. I
> really pride myself that I  may be the first human being who ever
> answered 100000 questions questioner as part of trying it on myself"
> so far Bainbridge's words.
> lately I  have posted  to WTA-talk an article named
> "Info-resurrection" a way for your personal survival besides cryonic
> preservation. it started a thread in WTA-talk and I thank the many
> participants. See also http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inforesurrection/
> I was much surprised to learn today in Transvision06 that the
> prominent Dr Bainbridge is not only supporting identical method to
> info-resurrection and personality capture, named "Self -  Explore The
> Final Frontier - Yourself"  http://mysite.verizon.net/wsbainbridge/
> see personality capture link there,  but has gone a long way to
> practically develop such a method of capturing and storing the
> identity critical information for future reanimation. These days I  am
> working on revised and longer edition of this work,  I want to stress
> that in front of the existential risks awaiting in the next 20 years
> or so, and being unable to tell if cryonic preservation will really
> work, it may be a great mistake to overlook the opportunities to our
> survival safely to the transhumanist future that a method like
> Bainbridge's "Self -  Explore The Final Frontier – Yourself" or the
> much similar "info-resurrection" can truly hold.
> I  define info-resurrection as: capturing your critical identity
> information, including your personal genotype {your DNA} thus for
> future converging technologies to be able to reconstitute your
> personality either as a clone of yours containing also your life
> experience and self identity, or in purer information technology -
> your conscious artificial personal intelligence, android robot of
> yours, etc, to the effect of your survival. I know it still sounds
> weird even to most of you innovative transhumanists, but today I have
> learnt that at least two people are investing in that method as a
> personal survival option, the first one is Bainbridge and hopefully
> many more in the future.
> All the best – David Ish Shalom
>
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