Classification of the approaches to the technological resurrection

1. Classification of the approaches to the
technological resurrection

2. We have a problem: death

3. Death is the loss of the information
and it could be reversed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-theoretic_death

4. “Technological resurrection” is
reconstruction of a person based on the information
about his personality
(The problem of personal identity will be solved in future
and we will not discuss it here. We assume for now that
informational equivalence is enough)
More about personal identity

5. There are many possible ways
to reconstruct information about a human mind
We suggest classification from most plausible to least possible
Prepared
while alive
Superintelligence
driven
New physical
discoveries
Use of “quantum
immortality”
Partial
resurrection
Transformative
resurrection

6. The best ways to the resurrection:
prepared while the person is still alive.
Cryonics, link
Plastination, link
Digital immortality, link
Brain scanning Not available now

7. Future superintelligence
will be able to reconstruct people,
who’s resurrection was not prepared

8. Future superintelligence
could use something called
“quantum archaeology”
Technical feasibility is not clear,
as what is currently called
“quantum teleportation” is not
allowing data transfer

9. Possible discovery of the
new laws of physics
and changes of the world model
open new ways to the resurrection
New physical laws could make
information retrieval possible:
• Reading information from the
past,
• Wormholes,
• Time machines,
• Parallel worlds,
• Recovery of the lost information
via the new types of traces
Changes of the world model:
• We are in the simulation, and it
records everything
• Aliens exist and record data
about us

10. “Quantum immortality”
could help technological resurrection
QI improves
subjective chances of
cryonics.
QI allows creation of the
“universal problem
solver”, which could be
used for the resurrection
of other people
http://lesswrong.com/lw/n7u/the_map_of_quantum_big_world_immortality/

11. Partial resurrection:
only part of the
information is retrieved
• Reconstruction based on the
expectations of the relatives
• The same DNA-based clone,
educated in the new conditions,
partly similar to his past culture;
• Improved version of a person
The new person is only partly
similar to the previous one,
according to the values of the “resurrectors”

12. Transformative resurrection:
not a person, but something else
• Theatre: transformation during game:
cosplay, dialogue of voices
• Life inside the memory of another man - in
dreams, in fantasies; shared brain
• Transformation into qualia, mood, image,
symbol

13. Transformative social resurrection:
• Foundation: an organisation continues the
projects of the person after he died
• Museum: personal belongings, archive, research
institute, catalogue-raisonne
• Biography, biopic movie
• Collected works, chat-bot, books
• Children
• Family,
• Monuments
• Legacy, memories of people, heroization
• Preservation of the cell line and body parts,
mummy
• The embodiment of values and ideas
• Symbolic reincarnation: name.

14. Transcendental
resurrection:
this is a category for
all known religion believes
• Physical resurrection according to God’s will
• Confluence with God
• Reincarnation
• Afterlife
• Transformation into transcendental

15. Full map

16. History of Russian Cosmism
Fedorov
(son of duke Gagarin)
Idea or resurrection
Korolev
Space rockets
constructor
Tsiolkovsky
space colonisation
Idea to solve
overpopulation
Gagarin
Fun of Tsiolkovsky
fist cosmonaut

17. Two types of the immortality
and two corresponding types
of resurrection
Subjective immortality:
immortality from the point of view
of the observer
(based on experiences and memories)
Objective immortality:
immortality from the point of view
of the society
(based on expectation and behaviour)
Examples:
“quantum immortality”
Examples:
“digital immortality”,
foundation,
DNA-clones

18. The main problem:
people do not want
technological resurrection
Religious concerns:
But Jesus Christ was
first transhumanist
Identity problem
But superintelligent AI will solve it,
now it is just a chance to win
No practical steps:
But digital immortality recording
could be done almost for free

19. Best ways of the resurrection
• Sooner
• In a better place
• Together with friends
• Without errors

20. Prepared by Alexey Turchin,
Foundation Science for Life Extension,
alexeiturchin@gmail.com