© Paul A. Spiegel 2012 All rights reserved. General Operating Directives: Creating a Constitution for An Immortal Humanity ™

© Paul A. Spiegel 2012 All rights reserved.

General Operating Directives: Creating a Constitution for

An Immortal Humanity™


A look into the future:

Video © Tom Scott. Used by permission.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E



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Substrates for Human Consciousness

• Biological Human Brain– An electrochemical computer evolved over 600

million years. Gathers, processes, stores and disseminates information in electrical form. Massively parallel, highly inefficient, wet, messy, fragile and mortal.

• Non-Biological Brain– Silicon or other non-biological computer

containing uploaded information from biological brain. Presently in development. Gathers, processes, stores and disseminates information in electronic form. Fast, accurate, stable, sturdy and immortal.


Timeframe Kurzweil projects Singularity by 2045.

• This only seems like a long time. We can’t wait until the last minute to develop rules to govern so important an event in human evolution.


Church’s breakthrough of 700 terabytes/gram of DNA

Advances

“The work by George Church and Sri Kosuri, basically treats DNA as just another digital storage device. Instead of binary data being encoded as magnetic regions on a hard drive platter, strands of DNA that store 96 bits are synthesized, with each of the bases (TGAC) representing a binary value (T and G = 1, A and C = 0).”

Anthony, S. (2012, August) Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram. ExtremeTech.com.




TM

“Bobby Kasthuri, Ph.D. under the tutelage of Jeff Lichtman, M.D., Ph.D., acquired a data set from mouse visual cortex with a 3x3x30 cubic nanometer spatial resolution, yielding 660GB of images. This beautiful data will be published soon.”

http://openconnectomeproject.org/Kasthuri11/

http://openconnectomeproject.org/Kasthuri11/


A Need For Rules: Some Questions• Are you alive?

– (Descartes: Cogito ergo sum)• Can you die if you want to?• Can you be terminated against your will?• Can you be altered? Injured? Confined?• Are there limitations to your actions?• Do you have freedom of thought? Speech?

• How to protect freedom when every thought is generated and stored on the great server.

• How do you support yourself?• Can you reproduce?• Do you have rights in your prior memories?• Who (or what) administers the rules?

René Descartes (1596—1650) ‘Father of modern Philosophy’

Credit: http://www.iep.utm.edu/descarte/

http://www.iep.utm.edu/descarte/


Who Makes The Rules?

• Consortium of oligarchs (Microsoft, Facebook, Government of China?) – or –

• A global Constitutional Convention for an Immortal Humanity: Populist initiative to create rules of, by and for humanity itself.


What would the CCIH Look Like?

• International congress of jurists, philosophers and thought leaders joined together for common goal independent of industry or political influence to produce General Operating Directives for the greater good of all humanity.


Why Now?

• Major rules require major time. It takes years to put a stoplight at a dangerous intersection. How long will it take to create a constitution for an immortal humanity?

• International cooperation requires time. Diverse cultures and differing systems will require coordination to create rules acceptable to all.


Historical/Metaphysical Precedent

• Ancient religions recognize transmigration of the Self.– Buddhism– Hinduism

• Similar concepts: – Traditional: Self moves from one biological

substrate to another.– Technological: Self moves from biological

substrate to non-biological substrate.


Alternatives

• Properly executed: Paradise• Improperly executed: Perdition


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