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El Club de los Astronautas: 10Answers


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#1 AdamDavis

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Posted 23 September 2009 - 09:31 AM


My interview contribution for El Club de los Astronautas' "10Answers" project.

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Do you think the human being will realize an interstellar voyage one day?

Yes. It may even be possible for baseline humans, who choose both not to augment
themselves or engage in mind uploading, to achieve this if they are tolerant and
accepting enough of those who do use such technologies to accept their assistance.
For instance, having heightened intelligences in the forms of transhumans,
posthumans and/or artificial intelligences calculate very accurately and apply very
well biostasis technologies to such baseline interstellar travellers according to each
one's individual physiology, et cetera, and to monitor them super-benevolently along
their travels.



Do you think it could happen during your lifetime?

Absolutely, though I must prepare myself for the possibility of it not happening. I
think others should too for the sake of their happiness, given how optimistic some can
be, and thus potentially disappointed, and depressed even, afterwards.



What do you think will be the key technology to realize an interstellar voyage?

Perhaps safe, exponentially self-replicating and self-repairing
nano-/subnanotechnologies that will construct an interstellar megascale network
allowing for mind uploads, or rather multiple copies of mind uploads, to travel along,
a la telephone calls across cables.



Do you think regenerative medicine will be the first step to prolong maximum
life-span and allow humans to transform into new life-forms to overcome the
time-space-barrier?


I do, and then to be subsequently combined with other fields in more widely
collaborative and interdisciplinary appraoches towards the issues of life extension
and quality of life.



What do you think medicine can do while you are still alive?

Abolish and/or reduce all forms of involuntary physical and mental suffering...to put
an end to the persistent cycle of new innovations introducing new, or rather amplify
already existing, problems and forms of suffering; yes, cyclo-anarchy!



What kind of breakthroughs in brain-boosting technologies might be achieved
during your lifetime? (smart-drugs, nootropics, neurogeneses, neuronal stem
cells, etc.)


Alongside technologies that will boost such traits as empathy and blissfulness,
pharmaceuticals and neuronanotechnologies, et cetera, that will allow for the
exploration of new aesthetic frontiers; technologies that will allow persons to:
- Enjoy, in real-time, such phenomena as conceptual, abstract feedback loops and
logic loops as we do now with the loops of musical rhythms across time.
- Enjoy, in real-time, their own and others' strange loops of self-awareness, selfconsciousness,
et cetera, in the same way.
- To perceive across the sensory spectrum [as sounds, visuals, vibro-tactics, etc.] the
nervous impulses and activities that are themselves already perceiving, and to
subsequently perceive the impulses, in the same manner, that allow for the percpetion
of the first set of nervous activities, ad infinitum, for a fractalline pattern to be
relished in itself...all in real-time.
- To perceive, in real-time, the rhythm of their selves exerting forces upon their
surroundings and the resultant equal and opposite reactions, as well as the
equilibrium of such a process as harmony (for equilibrium is harmony) for a new
music; to relish the conceptual analogue to this in the form of opposing ideologies
and contradictions.



Do you think you will join future brain-replacement or brain-uploading
technologies?


If non-invasive neurotechnologies were to be developed that would allow for the
uploading, storing and backing-up of my subjective experiences, I would use them. I
feel that throughout my life, I have contemplated many beautiful thoughts and have
experienced many moments of euphoria and bliss which I would be willing to share
with other persons as bemes and encourage their use as source material for
"remixing" by potential future artists. I would be willing, even, for my whole life to
be sifted and scanned all the way through with all the embarrassing, regrettable and
cringe worthy areas intact if it was required for the harvesting of the aforementioned
"golden" moments for others to enjoy and appreciate.



How do you think those technologies can be disadvantageous or dangerous?

By the potentially violent reaction of the opponents of such technologies which could
lead to anti-transhumanist terrorism and Luddite extremism.

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www.elclubdelosastronautas.com/10answers
Many thanks to David Apfel.




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