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[macdog]

Alot of people know a lot more about this than I do, so I was wondering about the possibilities for "self-simulation". In other words, could you take a series of personality tests or whatnot, and have a computer program that could simulate how you'd respond to different situation? It could be an early form of immortalism, something you could culture while still alive and you could leave it for your loved ones after death. Any thoughts on that?

PS. and if your response is " we just need to sit on our @$$'es and wait for the AI to solve that", then just don't bother. That's not a real response, that's dogma.

[susmariosep]

Perfectly terrific idea. That's what I have always been advocating, that immortality best be left or consigned to engineers and technicians, to produce a machine that can manipulate our memory data, and elaborate on them following our personality, again, memory data.

What is essentially human but our capacity for intelligent manipulation of memory data? and the acquisition of more such intelligent data? and to interact with fellow humans on the basis of memory data as we possess them and increase them in our storage, and exercise mastery over them?

And if and when we become 'machinized' aren't we still human, for being able to perform the quintessential human task of intelligent memory manipulaton?

Biological life is an evolutionary accident for man; now man can with his intelligent manipulation of memory data launch into the next stage of his development, which is machinized existence.

And this form of existence will ensure indefinite duration, and even restoration should a particular machine entity that is man in the future be destroyed.

And also it will save man from all kinds of psychiatric distresses, making him immune in effect from unconsequential intrusions of gods and sundry spirits, which in history do not help in the invention of a better mousetrap.

Susma