{"id":8471,"date":"2013-06-16T00:50:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T07:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=8471"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:29:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:29:52","slug":"vaccinate-against-b-s-o-d-insure-your-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/vaccinate-against-b-s-o-d-insure-your-memories","title":{"rendered":"Vaccinate against B.S.O.D \u2014 Insure your Memories."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201c\u2026and on the third day he rose again\u2026\u201d<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If we approach the subject from a non theist point of view, what we have is a re-boot. A restore of a previously working \u201csystem image\u201d. Can we restore a person to the last known working state prior to system failure?<\/p>\n

As our Biological (analog) life get\u2019s more entwined with the Digital world we have created, chances are, there might be options worth exploring. It all comes down to \u201cSampling\u201d \u2014 taking snapshots of our analog lives and storing them digitally. Today, with reasonable precision we can sample, store and re-create most of our primary senses, digitally. Sight via cameras, sound via microphones, touch via haptics and even scents can be sampled and\/or synthesized with remarkable accuracy.<\/p>\n

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Life as Routines, Sub-routines and Libraries:<\/h2>\n

In the story \u201cMemories with Maya<\/a>\u201d, Krish the AI researcher put forward in simple language, some of his theories to the main character, Dan:<\/p>\n

\u201cHumans are creatures of habit,\u201d he said. \u201cWe live our lives following the same routine day after day. We do the things we do with one primary motivation\u2013comfort.\u201d<\/em>
\n \u201cThat\u2019s not entirely true,\u201d I said. \u201cWhat about random acts. Haven\u2019t you done something crazy or on impulse?\u201d<\/em>
\n \u201cEven randomness is within a set of parameters; thresholds,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If we look at it, the average person\u2019s week can be broken down to typical activities per day and a branch out for the weekend. The day can be further broken down into time-of-day routines. Essentially, what we have are sub-routines, routines and libraries that are run in an infinite loop, until wear and tear on mechanical parts leads to sector failures. Viruses also thrown into the mix for good measure.<\/p>\n

Remember: we are looking at the typical lives of a good section of society \u2014 those who have resigned their minds to accepting life as it comes, satisfied in being able to afford creature comforts every once in a while. We aren\u2019t looking at the outliers \u2014 the Einsteins, the Jobs the Mozarts. This is ironic, in that, it would be easier to back-up, restore, and resurrect the average person than it would be to do the same for outliers.<\/p>\n

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Digital Breadcrumbs \u2014 The clues we leave behind.<\/h2>\n

What exactly does social media sites mean by \u201cWhat\u2019s on your mind?\u201d \u2014 Is it an invitation to digitize our Emotions, our thoughts, our experiences via words, pictures, sounds and videos? Every minute, Gigabytes (a conservative estimate) of analog life is being digitized and uploaded to the metaphoric \u201cCloud\u201d \u2014 a rich mineral resource, ripe for data mining by \u201cdeeplearning\u201d systems. At some point in the near future, would AI combined with technologies such as Quantum Archeology, Augmented Reality and Nano-tech, allow us to run our brains (minds?) on a substrate independent platform?<\/p>\n

If that proposition turns your geek on, here\u2019s some ways that you can live out a modern day version of Hansel and Gretel, insuring you find your way home, by leaving as many digital bread crumbs as you can via:<\/p>\n

Mind Files \u2014 Terasem and Lifenaut:<\/h2>\n

What is the LifeNaut Project?<\/p>\n

The long-term goal is to test whether given a comprehensive database, saturated with the most relevant aspects of an individual\u2019s personality, future intelligent software will be able to replicate an individual\u2019s consciousness. So, perhaps in the next 20 or 30 years technology will be developed to upload these files, together with futuristic software into a body of some sort \u2013 perhaps cellular, perhaps holographic, perhaps robotic. LifeNaut.com<\/a> is funded by the Terasem Movement Foundation, Inc.<\/p>\n

The LifeNaut Project is organized as a research experiment designed to test these hypotheses: <\/strong><\/p>\n

(1) a conscious analog of a person may be created by combining sufficiently detailed data about the person (\u201cmindfile & biofile\u201d) using future consciousness software (\u201cmindware\u201d), and<\/p>\n

(2) such a conscious analog may be downloaded into a biological or nanotechnological body to provide life experiences comparable to those of a typically birthed human.<\/p>\n

Sign-up<\/a> and start creating your MindFile today.<\/p>\n

Voice Banking:<\/h2>\n

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Read about Voice Banking, Speech Reconstruction and how natural human voice can be preserved and re-constructed. Voice banking might help even in cases when there is no BSOD<\/strong><\/a> scenario involved.<\/p>\n

Roger Ebert, noted film critic got his \u201cnatural\u201d voice back, using such technology.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/health\/prosthetics\/rogerebertvoicetech<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

Hear Obama\u2019s voice re-constructed: http:\/\/www.cereproc.com\/en\/products\/voices<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

Full Body Performance Capture:<\/h2>\n