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The Singularity:A Quest to Cheat

Death?

Riva-Melissa Tez@rivatez

facebook.com/groups/berlinsingularity

φιλοσοφία

tέχνη-λόγοςskill,art,craftiness literacy, speech

"ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue".

John von Neumann

Moore’s Law

morality, ethics, thought experiments

WWW.NICK BOSTROM.COM

Nanotechnology???

Brain emulation???

Artificial Intelligence???

Biotechnology??

Thales of Miletus 600BC

The very essence of what defines us?

"You, your joys and sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and your free will are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules"

Francis Crick

The Next Frontier

connectome vs hierarchical

Dr.Obama’s BRAIN Initiative(Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies)

$110 MILLION

GF2045“ a conference to transcend mortality by decoding the brain and the blueprint of consciousness in order for us to upload

ourselves to an eternal future”

“upload” our brains into a computer????

1.Understand the brain/map how our thoughts work physically

2.Build the software to host Brain(Quantum Computing/AI)

BRAIN IN A VAT??

Immortality

By combattin

g aging

By mind upload

By cryonics

LIFE EXPECTANCY VELOCITY

THE FIRST 1000 YEAR OLD IS PROBABLY LESS THAN 20 YEARS YOUNGER THAN THE FIRST 150

YEAR OLD.

INDEFINITE LIFESPAN?

DIE??!!

You mean we’ll never

memento mori

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.James Dean

….. LIVE AS IF YOU’LL LIVE FOREVER.

'I have no desire to die, but I count my death as nothing.’Epicharmus

What will life be like for future generations?

2000 years ago

500 years ago

50 years ago