Slides used for Q/A with Robert Geraci, SEptember 2016

1. Welcome to Robert Geraci

4. Western futurists and transhumanists have
absorbed the apocalyptic eschatology of the
religions through which they emerged. Indian
religious eschatology is different, but it also
has parallels with transhumanist thinking.
Moreover, Indian futurists tend to embrace
the tradition, appropriating science and
technology in their affirmation of the past,
more than theirWestern counterparts.

5. “As machines grow to superhuman
intelligence, humanity will upload
consciousness into machine bodies and join
the artificial intelligences in what Moravec
calls the Mind Fire, a cosmic expansion of
intelligence throughout the universe…
Thanks to vast computation, even the dead
shall rise and walk again in this digital
wonderland, resurrected through historical
analysis.”

6. “Minds intermediate between Sherlock
Holmes and God will process clues in solar-
system quantities to deduce and recreate the
most microscopic details of preceding eras:
Entire world histories, with all their living,
feeling inhabitants, will be resurrected in
cyberspace.”
- Hans Moravec, Robot: Mere Machine to
Transcendent Mind

7. “A permanency of records in the Akâsa, and the
potential capacity of man to read the same when
he has evoluted to the stage of true individual
enlightenment.”
- A.P. Sinnett, Esoteric Buddhism (1885)

8. “A universal information and memory field
could exist in nature, associated with the
fundamental element of physical reality
physicists call the unified field… Honoring an
ancient insight, this is the aspect or
dimension of the unified field that I have
called the Akashic Field.”
- Ervin Laszlo, The Akashic Experience: Science
and the Cosmic Memory Field

9. A possible theoretical foundation
for Akashic Physics with a cosmic
memory field that stores
permanent records of everything
that ever happens in the
universe...
A dynamic cellular network - a graph with a huge
number of nodes and internal dynamics similar to
cellular automata - beyond space and time, from
which the geometry of space-time is derived.

10. Resurrection physics:
micro-wormholes
linking all pixels of
space-time
ER
=
EPR
?

11. Resurrection physics:
FrankTipler’s Omega
Point

12. Resurrection physics:
Quantum Archaeology

13. A much needed cultural fusion of East and
West: Eastern ethereal spirituality and
openness to holistic models of reality on the
one hand, and the can-do engineering spirit
of Western technology on the other hand.

14. Akashic Engineering: Future technologies
able to exploit the deep structure of physical
reality to do “magic” in the sense of Clarke’s
Third Law and even resurrect the dead.
Religion 2.0 based on the prospect of Akashic
Engineering: A fusion of East andWest,
science and technology.

15. Is the East, and in particular India, a more
fertile ground than theWest?

16. What is the natural target audience?

17. How to overcome the aversion of spiritual
seekers to science and engineering? How to
overcome the aversion of scientists and
engineers to spirituality, including
imaginative scientific ideas that “sound like
religion”?

18. How to present our ideas to the mainstream
religion and science communities? How to
position our ideas politically in academy and
society?

19. What are the more suitable organizational
structures?What do you think of my open
source religion idea?

20. What are the most suitable outreach
formats? Are virtual worlds still a good
option?

21. Thanks!