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Abstract. Death seems to be a permanent event, but there is no actual proof of its irreversibility. Here we list all known ways to resurrect the dead that do not contradict our current scientific understanding of the world. While no method is currently possible, many of those listed here may become feasible with future technological development, and it may even be possible to act now to increase their probability. The most well-known such approach to technological resurrection is cryonics. Another method is indirect mind uploading, or digital immortality, namely the preservation of data about a person to allow for future reconstruction by powerful AI. More speculative ways to immortality include combinations of future superintelligence on a galactic scale, which could use simulation to resurrect all possible people, and new physical laws, which may include time-travel or obtaining information from the past. Acausal trade with parallel worlds could help combine random resurrection and reconstruction based on known data without loss of share of worlds where I exist (known as existence measure). Quantum immortality could help to increase the probability of success for cryonics and digital immortality. There many possible approaches to technological resurrection and thus if large-scale future technological development occurs, some form of resurrection is inevitable.
Abstract. Death seems to be a permanent event, but there is no actual proof of its irreversibility. Here we list all known ways to resurrect the dead that do not contradict our current scientific understanding of the world. While no method is currently possible, many of those listed here may become feasible with future technological development, and it may even be possible to act now to increase their probability. The most well-known such approach to technological resurrection is cryonics. Another method is indirect mind uploading, or digital immortality, namely the preservation of data about a person to allow for future reconstruction by powerful AI. More speculative ways to immortality include combinations of future superintelligence on a galactic scale, which could use simulation to resurrect all possible people, and new physical laws, which may include time-travel or obtaining information from the past. Acausal trade with parallel worlds could help combine random resurrection an...
2019 •
Alexander Bolonkin in his works [1-7] proposed methods of electronic immortality of modern people. He predicted the gradual replacement of biological humanity E-beings, considered their advantages and disadvantages (see List of references in given articles). The author considers methods and modern possibilities of resurrection of long-dead outstanding personalities. It also considers the principles and organization of the new E-society, its goals and conditions of existence.
Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology
Theoretical and Practical Paralogisms of Digital Immortality2023 •
Modern and contemporary transhumanism has seen a recent rise in academic and popular relevance; specific naïve metaphysical ideas, such as immortality, have returned with this rise. This article refrains from any ethical or political assessment of transhumanism. Still, it critiques the exact metaphysical or idealistic nature of transhuman-ism and its pursuit of digital immortality: the idea that, through technological advancements, precisely in Artificial General Intelligence, an immortal virtual “self” will become possible. The article follows the form of Immanuel Kant’s “Paralogisms” from the Critique of Pure Reason, where Kant is concerned with the substan-tial, immortal nature of the soul and its experiential impossibility. The article will offer theoretical and practical paralogisms (false logical inferences), arguing that the transhumanist claim that digital immortality is possible fundamentally stems from two incorrect major premises. The first concerns the substantial nature of informa-tion, which informs the theoretical paralogisms; the second con-cerns infinite transformation (pure plasticity), which informs the practical paralogisms
ResearchGate GmbH
"A Means of Immortality With Derivatives of Current Technology."2019 •
Immortality, and recovery of the dead has been a focus of human research since the dawn of civilization. In recent technological development, means of examining, recording, and emulation of neural behaviour such that the neural activity that defines the ego of a person (their personality as structured by experience) have advanced to near practicality thanks to projects like Elon Musk's Neuralink, and other research. However, further research shows deeper mechanisms built into the neural system may be responsible for what we experience as continuous consciousness, as a substrate on which events, emotions, thoughts, and choices take focus. The work of researcher Eckahart Tolle, the implications of Klee Irwin's Quantum Gravity Research in California, Wolfram's principle of computational equivalence, and modern psychology all serve as positive indicators of a quantum substrate from which human consciousness is derived. This quantum substrate is where quantum actions on the planck scale, and behaves similarly to waves as seen in physical models of droplets suspended in liquid via sonic wave generation.research shows there is quantum activity in the neuroprotective layer of neurons, which infers interface with these waveforms, such that with a proper nanoscale sensor, root consciousness can proceed alongside neurological character. Further the neurological character of a person may yet be retrievable via the quantum link, as nonlocal data conferred in quantum perturbations, though experimentation is needed to confirm the suspicion. Findings in research The findings suggest a possible route to immortality listed as follows;-The universe as a set of absolute lowest possible volume quantum systems made of tetrahedral geometric projections from E8(1)-quantum units of consciousness(2)-a universal computational substrate from which all things including consciousness are an expression of universal complexity(3)-consciousness as a substrate to thought(4)-quantum interface in the neuroprotective layer(5)-neural adaptation to arbitrary data sources. (6)-quantum behaviour as a result of generalized waveforms(7)-quantum antenna for interfacing the quantum conscious field(8)
Mind Uploading Versus Resurrection
Mind Uploading versus Resurrection (The Dream of Immortality)2019 •
The dream of immortality had always haunted humans from ancient history especially Ancient Egyptians (ASSMANN, 2002), till our current time, definitions and modes of immortality can vary, from the concept of avoiding death, or simply being able to come back to life ‘resurrection’, modern technology, seems to give promises that humans can keep their consciousness alive, even after death, in this paper, we shall examine: 1) the concept of transferring human consciousness or minds to technology, 2) what has been achieved in that field so far, 3) what are the promises of the future technology, 4) the drawbacks and the counter-arguments of human mind upload, 5) resurrection in Christianity and how it differs from what the technology of mind uploading has to offer and how it differs from Ancient religions in their definition of resurrection.
Alekseeva E., Gurov O., Konkova T. Review of the panel discussion “Philosophical and Ethical Analysis of the Concepts of Death and Human Existence in the Context of Cybernetic Immortality”, Samara, 29.03 2024 // Artificial societies. – 2024. – V. 19. – Issue 2. URL: https://artsoc.jes.su/s2077518...
Review of the panel discussion “Philosophical and Ethical Analysis of the Concepts of Death and Human Existence in the Context of Cybernetic Immortality”, Samara, 29.03 20242024 •
This publication constitutes a comprehensive account of the panel discussion entitled “Philosophical and Ethical Analysis of the Concepts of Death and Human Existence in the Context of Cybernetic Immortality” which transpired within the confines of the international scientific symposium “The Seventh Lemovsky Readings” held in Samara from March 28th to 30th, 2024. The aforementioned panel discussion, which congregated scores of erudite scholars representing preeminent research institutions across the Russian Federation, emerged as one of the cardinal events of the conference. Eminent Russian academics hailing from multifarious domains of knowledge engaged in a profound deliberation on the potentialities of cybernetic immortality, the conundrums associated with the transference of human consciousness and identity into the virtual realm, as well as the ethical and philosophical quandaries engendered by the transfiguration of the conceptualization of the notions of mortality and the natural life cycle. The roundtable delved into the technological feasibilities and perils of engendering digital doppelgangers, the preservation of individuality after corporeal demise, as well as the plausible ramifications of the technological modification of the human essence.
International Journal of Research & Development
Scientific Relevance and Future of Digital Immortality and Virtual Humans2020 •
We are on the threshold of a significant change in the way we view digital life, which will have a major effect on the physical world. Computers have increasingly emulated deceased human beings through growing awareness in the fields of artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning, and have symbolically managed to overcome death with the help of technology. One thing is clear, though: now that there are proper and legitimate discussions happening about human immortality, we can be certain that the future is upon us. This article attempts to explain and challenge the ways in which digital immortality, in particular, has manifested itself. This paper summarizes the technological solutions, research findings and technical challenges of major researchers by reviewing the key technologies and general technical schemes in the field of digital human beings. The prospects of digital human beings are being investigated.

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