Astral Light (Sept 10, 2014 16:03:18 GMT -5)
Astral Light“A very interesting book just hit the market. Written by Martine Rothblatt -- apparently she is America's top paid female CEO -- its title is Virtually Human: The Promise -- and the Peril -- of Digital Immortality. The subject is digital clones, and Rothblatt goes into depth about what they are, when they are coming, and the likelihood they eventually will have equal human rights.The premise is fascinating, and I now can foresee a future when we won't be able to survive successfully without one -- and that future is coming damned fast.A Digital CloneIt's interesting thinking about this. As you might recall, a few years back there was a lot of talk about creating biological clones and the need for huge bans preventing the practice for any reason except, possibly, organ harvesting. I think people were scared that these things would become monsters or some such.The thing is, if you were to print a 3D copy of yourself, it basically would be a vegetable that was good only for organ harvesting, because it would be an adult without any skills -- couldn't walk, talk, feed itself, comprehend, etc. Even if you taught it all of those things, it wouldn't be you, which I think was kind of the goal -- to create a form of immortality by creating copies of yourself.Granted, if you could transplant the brain, then having a brand new body every 20 years until your brain failed could be a superset of plastic surgery. It might slow down dementia, but eventually you'd have to deal with the brain problem. Otherwise, you'd just be a demented person with a young body.A digital clone is an electronic copy of your personality. Virtually Human describes how one of the first digital clones was created and interacted with.A digital clone wouldn't be built as you were built. It wouldn't come into existence biologically and then duplicate every one of your experiences, interactions and learning moments. Instead, it would be created to emulate you and to learn largely by observing or being programmed to act as you now do. Strangely, the end result would be far more likely to be a match than if you tried the impossible task of growing it as you were grown.Advantages of a Digital CloneOne of the big advantages of a digital clone would be that since it would exist in a computer, it wouldn't have hormones. It wouldn't have the animalistic parts of the brain that often drive humans to be inconsistent -- to do what, in hindsight, are stupid things, because of emotions. One of the interesting things is that without those aspects, it isn't a perfect clone either, so the more stable it is in relation to you, the less like you the clone is -- the less it actually is a clone.”
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Digital Clone: You Won't Be Able to Live Without OneLaurence Mountford I don't give a fuck about what any of them say. I will burn them all to the fkin ground.... Cultivate that mentality. and then you won't have to worry about this happening. Fuk em