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Terasem Movement, Inc. is a 501c3 not-for-profit charity endowed for the purpose of educating the public on the practicality and necessity of greatly extending human life, consistent with diversity and unity, via geoethical nanotechnology and personal cyberconsciousness, concentrating in particular on facilitating revivals from biostasis. The Movement focuses on preserving, evoking, reviving and downloading human consciousness.
The Terasem Resident Scholar is expected to do up to a year's worth of scholarly research regarding the Terasem Hypotheses, using the CyBeRev database as a resource, with the result published in a medium-to-high impact peer reviewed journal in the sciences or humanities.
Successful applicants to the Terasem Resident Scholar Program are expected to have a history of successful publications in medium-to-high impact peer reviewed journals in one or more field(s) relevant to the Terasem Hypotheses and CyBeRev. While not an absolute requirement, a typically successful Terasem Resident Scholar Program applicant would use their sabbatical year from a professorship for this opportunity.
Applications are by cover letter, CV and publication reprints to:Terasem Movement, Inc.
Attn: Executive VP, Terasem Resident Scholar Program
P.O Box 33972
Indialantic FL 32903
One high-profile and potentially controversial speaker at the upcoming COSM conference (October 23–25 in Bellevue, Washington) is Ray Kurzweil. A prolific inventor in communications technologies such as the image scanner and optical character recognition, he is also co-founder and chancellor of Singularity University and a Director of Engineering at Google. But he is best known for his quasi-religious convictions that computers will soon be conscious and we can achieve immortality by merging with machines and making the universe intelligent.
Join Terasem in an intergalactic time travel reaching for the stars and beyond, ad astra! Terasem created the CyBeRev Project (cybernetic beingness revival) in its mission to extend human life. The purpose of the project is to prevent death by preserving sufficient information about a person within a digital diary called a mindfile, so recovery remains possible by foreseeable technology. If CyBeRev people are recoverable in the future, then they were never really dead in the first place. Real death occurs when information about a person becomes so disorganized that no technology could restore the original state. When creating a free CyBeRev account, the User may elect to transmit his or her mindfile information through the cosmos via parabolic dish where it may be decoded by future generations of our own civilizations or civilizations we are yet unaware of. The chart below depicts how far the Terasem Spacecast traveled since it first began in 2007.
Microsoft is investing $1 billion in AI research company OpenAI to build a set of technologies that can deliver artificial general intelligence (AGI). The multiyear joint effort aims to construct a supercomputing capability in Azure that provides developers a platform for building AGI applications and delivering them to the public.
Transhumanism is a growing movement but also one of the most controversial. Though there are many varying offshoots within the movement, the general core idea is the same: evolve and enhance human beings by integrating biology with technology.
Join Terasem in an intergalactic time travel reaching for the stars and beyond, ad astra! Terasem created the CyBeRev Project (cybernetic beingness revival) in its mission to extend human life. The purpose of the project is to prevent death by preserving sufficient information about a person within a digital diary called a mindfile, so recovery remains possible by foreseeable technology. If CyBeRev people are recoverable in the future, then they were never really dead in the first place. Real death occurs when information about a person becomes so disorganized that no technology could restore the original state. When creating a free CyBeRev account, the User may elect to transmit his or her mindfile information through the cosmos via parabolic dish where it may be decoded by future generations of our own civilizations or civilizations we are yet unaware of. The chart below depicts how far the Terasem Spacecast traveled since it first began in 2007.
Fifty years after the birth of the unorthodox and unregulated field of cryonics, the process remains unproven. Still, some people are willing to gamble a fortune on the hope of thawing out and emerging one day from an almost-permanent slumber.
In May 1997, an IBM chess-playing computer called Deep Blue defeated a grandmaster human chess player (under regular time controls) for the first time in history. It took four decades for computer programs and hardware to advance from their first victory in the mid-1950s to besting a world champion. In the twenty plus years since, however, chess programs running on relatively common hardware (like that used in smartphones) could routinely beat even the best human players.
Meet Martine Rothblatt, Sirius XM founder who now creates life-saving technologies
It’s easy to think that the world’s most exciting robots are those that exist on the larger end of the size spectrum, whether it’s humanoid robots created by Boston Dynamics or even larger mech-inspired robots. Researchers at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems think differently, however.
Preamble: The Internet comprises a decentralized global system that serves humanity’s collective effort to generate, process, and store data, most of which is handled by the rapidly expanding cloud. A stable, secure, real-time system may allow for interfacing the cloud with the human brain. One promising strategy for enabling such a system, denoted here as a “human brain/cloud interface” (“B/CI”), would be based on technologies referred to here as “neuralnanorobotics.”
Preamble: Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,
Electricity is the brain’s language, and now we can speak to it without wires or implants. Nanoparticles can be used to stimulate regions of the brain electrically, opening up new ways to treat brain diseases.
One of the biggest problems facing business executives when it comes to adopting AI is determining whether a company is truly leveraging AI or simply using the term as a marketing strategy.
Humans aren’t the only people in society – at least according to the law. In the U.S., corporations have been given rights of free speech and religion. Some natural features also have person-like rights. But both of those required changes to the legal system. A new argument has laid a path for artificial intelligence systems to be recognized as people too – without any legislation, court rulings or other revisions to existing law.
With the advent of automation, there’s been a boom of new jobs across various industries creating a paradigm shift in the standard of living of inhabitants and the society, in general.
Your family and friends will be able to interact with a digital “you” that doles out advice—even when you’re gone.
Researchers have developed a new method to control nanobots -- inside the human body.
Evolutionary biologist Michael Rose, professor at University of California, Irvine, says he has discovered a natural way to achieve “biological immortality” without the use of anti-aging drugs and stem cell treatments.
Research in marine snails could lead to new treatments to restore memories and alter traumatic ones
Interesting interview with Bina48
A company called Nectome is developing a technology designed to preserve the brain so the human mind can be uploaded to supercomputers in the future.
There are so many amazing ways artificial intelligence and machine learning are used behind the scenes to impact our everyday lives and inform business decisions and optimize operations for some of the world’s leading companies. Here are 27 amazing practical examples of AI and machine learning
A company called Nectome is developing a technology designed to preserve the brain so the human mind can be uploaded to supercomputers in the future.
A brief history of Stephen Hawking on the New York Times website
"Recreating a deceased person or animal’s DNA has required that DNA be extracted from the remains of the individual, but a new study has shown that may not be the only way.
"A few of the ideas being explored by scientists to extend life span toward immortality are cryogenic freezing, meshing human cognition with AI and even uploading thoughts. "
"This semester, a robot named BINA48 successfully passed a class on Philosophy and Love at Notre Dame de Namur (NDNU), making her the first advanced robot to complete a college course. "
"Google’s AutoML artificial intelligence (AI) system has created its own “fully-functional AI child” that’s capable of outperforming its human-made equivalents, reports Alphr."
"The rights of people who choose cryonics are important, and should be respected"
Sophia, an intelligent humanoid robot, has been granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia. It’s the first country in the world to give a bot the same status reserved for humans.
Ray Kurzweil, Martine Rothblatt, Rodney Brooks, and others weigh in on the future of artificial intelligence
What is the Lifetime of Civilizations in a (Transatmospheric) Communicative State? Martine Rothblatt, 2017 Cambridge Science Festival
The Gathering at Keystone College: A conversation about digital mortality and breaking other barriers.
Destination Michigan: Steve Smith is taking us to a place that could be our portal to the future ... a destination "where no man has gone before."
Staff members who die will be put in cold storage until medical science can revive them.
By Rich Haridy: New Atlas.com
Find it here:Amazon.com
Read here:CNN.com
Watch the interview:The View
Martine Rothblatt explains how our doppelgangers could lead to immortality. Washington Post Live
Morgan Freeman Interviews BINA48. The Story of God
New York singer/songwriter JiHAE and strikingly 'human' robot Bina48 sit down for a quick chat about the world. The Fader
Japanese researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute have created a new technique for converting brain tissue into transparent tissue to reveal 3D brain anatomy at very high resolution, according to an article in Kurzweil AI News. The new technique, called ScaleS, has been used for large-scale connectomic mapping and 3D neural circuit reconstruction.
Scientists have developed a miniature human brain in a dish with the equivalent brain maturity of a five-week-old fetus, according to an article in Kurzweil AI News. The researchers at Ohio State report that it contains most of the structures found in a developing brain (except for a vascular system) and represents the most complete human brain model yet developed.
University of Cambridge researchers have built a robot that can build other (simpler) robots, test which one does best, and automatically use the results to improve the design for the next generation of robots, according to an article in Kurzweil AI News. This is but one step away from self-improving reproduction in a machine ... basically the beginning of Darwinian evolution in machines. Considering that the pace of such evolution will be a billion times faster than it was with biological organisms, Kurzweil may have his Singularity very soon.
Researchers at Microsoft have developed an artificial intelligence system with a sense of humour. According to an article in Bloomberg News, the system is intended to sift through over 5000 black and white cartoons submitted to the New Yorker every week to find the funniest choices among captions that make similar jokes. The lack of humour in an AI has been a mainstay in science fiction, perhaps best represented by Commander Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed software that can recognize hand-drawn sketches better than humans for the first time. According to an
Our memories are as fleeting as the brain structures that store them, or so the theory goes. When the connections - called synapses - between neurons break, the memories they hold are thought to evaporate along with them. Mark Schnitzer, an associate professor of biology and of applied physics at Stanford, has leveraged microscopy tools developed in his lab to monitor the connections (synapses) between hippocampal neurons for the first time and confirm this theory, according to an article published in the Stanford News Service. In the mice that the neuroscientist and his team studied, the connections between neurons lasted about 30 days, roughly the duration over which episodic memories are believed to stay in the mouse hippocampus.
