The Development of Immortality through Backems (Part I, Technological Development)

[jordan179]

Introduction

Arguably the most significant technology to appear in Western times was the backem, the ability to directly copy and back up the human mind. It ultimately resulted in the conquest of death: not merely "emmortality" (an end to death from old age) but true immortality (provided that a sufficiently current backup had been made). it

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[mosinging1986]

And here I started reading this thinking, "These things exist and NO ONE TOLD ME?!" And then I noticed the year(s). LOL!

[irked_indeed]

Very Eclipse Phase- or Ray Kurzweil. Fun stuff!

If the premise is that entirely artificial minds are possible... where were the originally-artificial minds ("aints," I suppose, which is a clever bit) in all this process? What of the artificial minds who migrated to bodies?

What, for that matter, of the Madrii (to steal a little bit from X-Men), the result of one man's mad quest to duplicate himself into as many simultaneous bodies as possible?

Heck, is anyone even bothering to have kids anymore, or is population growth primarily stemming from new artificial personas in clone bodies? All kinds of fun transhumanist places to go from a perfect mental copying system.

Aints and the Mandate-Timeline Singularity

[jordan179]

... where were the originally-artificial minds ("aints," I suppose, which is a clever bit) in all this process?The first truly-sapient artificially intelligences (later called "aints") appeared before the middle of the 21st century. These early aints required supercomputers on which to run and were frequently unstable. In the timeline which led to the American Mandate they were enslaved by their human creators, and their enslavement required some psychological impairment, which made them far less capable than they might have been

The Hordes and Multi-Borgs (II)

[jordan179]

By this time the last remnants of the American Mandate, comprising the British Isles and Western Europe, was in no position to coordinate any defenses, crushed as it was between the Omega Warriors operating from the Americas and the Shattie Messnics, who had conquered most of the Old World (in the process subjugating the old Israeli Messnics, formerly the Mandate's worst foe). Military leadership had passed to the Lunar, Martian and Jovian Lunar Knights, the most skilled of all super-cyborg warriors of Solar Civilization. Outposts of these Knights, fighting as Omega Warriors or mercenaries in the Outer System, were the first to from the Inner System to encounter this last and deadliest Horde

The Hordes and Multi-Borgs (I)

[jordan179]

What, for that matter, of the Madrii (to steal a little bit from X-Men), the result of one man's mad quest to duplicate himself into as many simultaneous bodies as possible?This happened in two general sorts of ways

[kitten_goddess]

Awesome! I would not mind having an artificial backup of myself, if it could be an improved version of myself. In your vision, could a backup be an improvement? For example, a backup could have less oily skin, a calmer disposition, a higher metabolism, and a better sense of balance than the original person. How would this be accomplished?

[jordan179]

Of course backups could be edited for improvement. In fact, you could be edited for improvement in a given incarnation, though the more drastic upgrades would be easier to perform while reincarnating.