{"id":111449,"date":"2020-08-17T00:09:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T07:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/cybernetic-immortality-why-our-cyberhuman-future-is-closer-than-you-think"},"modified":"2020-08-17T00:22:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T07:22:55","slug":"cybernetic-immortality-why-our-cyberhuman-future-is-closer-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/cybernetic-immortality-why-our-cyberhuman-future-is-closer-than-you-think","title":{"rendered":"Cybernetic Immortality: Why Our Cyberhuman Future is Closer Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cybernetic-immortality-why-our-cyberhuman-future-is-closer-than-you-think2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As transhumanists, we aim at the so-called continuity of subjectivity by the means of advanced technologies. Death in a common sense of the word becomes optional and cybernetic immortality is within our reach during our lifetimes. By definition, posthumanism (I choose to call it <i>\u2018cyberhumanism\u2019<\/i>) is to replace transhumanism at the center stage circa 2035. By then, mind uploading could become a reality with gradual neuronal replacement, rapid advancements in Strong AI, massively parallel computing, and nanotechnology allowing us to directly connect our brains to the Cloud-based infrastructure of the Global Brain. Via interaction with our AI assistants, the GB will know us better than we know ourselves in all respects, so mind-transfer, or rather \u201cmind migration,\u201d for billions of enhanced humans would be seamless, sometime by mid-century.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>By 2040, mind-uploading may become a norm and a fact of life with a \u201ccritical mass\u201d of uploads and cybernetic immortality. Any container with a sufficiently integrated network of information patterns, with a certain optimal complexity, especially complex dynamical systems with biological or artificial brains (say, the coming AGIs) could be filled with consciousness at large in order to host an individual \u201creality cell,\u201d \u201cunit,\u201d or a \u201cnode\u201d of consciousness. This kind of individuated unit of consciousness is always endowed with free will within the constraints of the applicable set of rules (\u201cphysical laws\u201d), influenced by the larger consciousness system dynamics. Isn\u2019t too na\u00efve to presume that Universal Consciousness would instantiate phenomenality only in the form of <i>\u201cbio\u201d<\/i>-logical avatars?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As transhumanists, we aim at the so-called continuity of subjectivity by the means of advanced technologies. Death in a common sense of the word becomes optional and cybernetic immortality is within our reach during our lifetimes. By definition, posthumanism (I choose to call it \u2018cyberhumanism\u2019) is to replace transhumanism at the center stage circa 2035. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,269,4,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-life-extension","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111455,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111449\/revisions\/111455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}