{"id":8128,"date":"2013-05-30T04:58:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T11:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=8128"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:29:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:29:59","slug":"digitizing-emotions-longevity-and-the-transhuman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/digitizing-emotions-longevity-and-the-transhuman","title":{"rendered":"Digitizing Emotions \u2014 Longevity and the Transhuman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Emotions and Longevity:<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the picture header above influenced you to click to read more of this article, then it establishes at least part of my hypothesis: Visual stimuli that trigger our primal urges, supersede all our senses, even over-riding intellect. By that I mean, irrespective of IQ level, the visual alone and not the title of the essay will have prompted a click through \u2013Classic advertising tactic: Sex sells.<\/p>\n

Yet, could there be a clue in this behavior to study further, in our quest for Longevity? Before Transhumanism life extension technology such as nano-tech and bio-tech go mainstream\u2026 we need to keep our un-amped bodies in a state of constant excitement, using visual triggers that generate positive emotions, thereby hopefully, keeping us around long enough to take advantage of these bio-hacks when they become available.<\/p>\n

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Emotions on Demand \u2014 The \u201cTiVo-ing\u201d of feelings:<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the graphic above, it is easy to extrapolate that \u2018positive\u2019 emotions can contribute significantly to Longevity. When we go on a vacation, we\u2019re experiencing the world in a relaxed frame of mind and encoding these experiences, even if sub-consciously, in our brains (minds?). Days, or even years later we can call on these experiences, on-demand, to bring us comfort.<\/p>\n

Granted, much like analog recordings\u2026 over time, these stored copies of positive emotions will deteriorate, and just as we can today digitize images and sounds, making for pristine everlasting copies\u2026 can we digitize Emotions for recall and to experience them on-demand?<\/p>\n

How would we go about doing it and what purpose does it serve?<\/p>\n

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Digitizing Touch: Your Dirrogate\u2019s unique Emotional Signature:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can we digitize Touch; a crucial building block that contributes to the creation of Emotions? For an answer, we need to look to the (and to some, the questionable) technology behind Teledildonics.<\/p>\n

While the tech to experience haptic feed-back has been around for a while, it\u2019s been mostly confined to Virtual Reality simulations and for training purposes. Crude haptic-force feedback gaming controllers are available on the market, but advances in actuators, and nano-scale miniaturization are soon to change that, even going as far as to give us tactile imaging capability \u2014 \u201cSmart Skin<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Recently, Durex announced \u201cFundawear<\/a>\u201d. It\u2019s purpose? To experience the \u201ctouch\u201d of your partner in a fun light-hearted way. Yet, what if a Fundawear session could be recorded and played back later? The unique way your partner touches, forever digitized for playback when desired\u2026 allowing you to experience the emotion of joy and happiness at will?<\/p>\n

Fundawear can be thought of as a beta v1.0 of something akin to smart-skin in reverse, which could eventually allow a complete \u201cfeel-stream\u201d to be digitized and played back on-demand.<\/p>\n

Currently we are already able to digitize some faculties that stimulate two of our primary senses:<\/p>\n