Alexey Turchin

Art and digital immortality

Foundation Science for Life Extension alexeiturchin@gmail.com

We have a problem: death

And we have a hope: AI

Superintelligence Self-improving

Exceed collective intelligence of humanity Unite all planet

May appear in the 21 century

Digital immortality is plan C of reaching immortality

Plan A is to survive until immortality via fighting aging

Plan B is cryonics

Two meanings of the digital immortality а) Preservation of the human informational traces with the hope that future AI will resurrect him - right one б) Brain scanning of a living human

AI will be able to reconstruct a persobality of a diseased person

AI was able to reconstruct a poetry of a dead musician (Letov)

Son created a chat-bot of his father

I suppouse that some level of needed fidelity of a copy exists, like one night difference

But there is a mindkiller problem: the problem of the personal identity

- But the copy will not be me? - Yes.

-It will be like your nearest relative - And may be you after all

More details here:

To reconstruct the personality we need a lot of information

Passively collected information is not enough

We don’t need all information

Information criteria: 1. Predicting – predict future behaviour 2.Valuable: related to the human values 3.Unique – predict individuality

Examples: - Predicting but not unique: number of the fingers of the palm- Unique but not valuable: the shape of the nail on the little finger- Valuable, but not unique: pin-code from the card

The main thesis: The work of art meets the requirements of importance,

uniqueness and predictive value.

The story of my self-description in 1990

In 1990, I made my first self-description, on which I spent 2 months. Its elements:

1) Texts: a) diary, b) memoirs c) declaration of properties d) automatic letters e) table of associations f) works of fiction

2) Drawings - an encyclopaedia of non-verbal images; collection of children's drawings

3) Photos of important places

4) Voice recording of voice

5) Samples of fabric

The Story of My Self

Description in 1990

Encyclopedia of things

The Story of My Self

Description in 1990

Encyclopedia of people I know

The Story of My Self

Description in 1990

The story of my life told from the

inside (analogous to

"Confession" of Rousseau)

The Story of My Self

Description in 1990

Encyclopedia of things

The Story of My Self

Description in 1990

Encyclopedia of things

The Story of My Self

Description in 1990

Encyclopedia of things

The Story of My Self

Description in 1990

Encyclopedia of things

The Story of My Self

Description in 1990

Encyclopedia of things

The Story of My Self

Description in 1990

“The thing" A novell

The Story of My Self

Description in 1990

"Association tables"

Any attempt to deliberately unload information from yourself, self-description, leads to the creation of art. For some artists, art became an escape from Shoushenk (A.

Lobanov, spent his entire life in a mental hospital)

Style as a personal hash function or digital signature

The style is unique and everyone has his own. The correct copy will create objects in the same style.

The idea of the digital immortality became fashionable in 2010s, but only as a passive reconstruction based on social networks

The idea of digital immortality became fashionable in 2010, but only as a passive

reconstruction based on social data. networks

The idea of digital immortality became fashionable in 2010, but only as a passive reconstruction based on social networks

In the film "Transcendence" it is the digital immortality used to create the personality model of the protagonist

The world is constantly collecting more and more data about people using the Internet and video surveillance, as well as investing in the storage of these data. But

this is only passive information, and there is little essential and individual in it.

At the same time, people are dying, information is lost and no one is interested

in correctly collecting this information

2015

“Digital Immortality Now"

Uploading protocol creation

Digital immortality now

The basis of the protocol: to encourage people to create works of art in order to fix their individuality

Digital immortality now

Why do we need self-taughts: trained in the Academy skill will not tell much about the personality

Digital immortality now

Spontaneous drawing transmits images of the unconscious

+ art therapy, + construction of the worlds + active imagination + drawing dreams

Digital immortality now

Drawing from nature acts as an information filter, and so we learn what kind of filter it is.

Digital immortality now

Self-portrait as presentation of your

idea of Self

Digital immortality now And not only drawing: singing, a story about life, any

complex unique activity acts as an imprint of personality

Digital immortality now The mode of free generation by a neural network gives its

structure

Проект 2015 года Карта цифрового бессмертия