FK Press Library
A book recommended for those aware of a near-coming end of life. -- Immortal life has been a dream of humans since ancient times. Futurists have recently begun to argue about the possibility of keeping human consciousness/mind permanently, even after physical death of individual humans, through taking out the consciousness/mind as a digital file and reproducing this file in a special computer (so-called “mindcloning”). This is an introductory guide, providing brief perspectives for the age of singularity (age of robots comparable to humans) and the subsequent possibility of mindclone creation.
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The age of singularity (human-equivalent robots) is anticipated to come in the near future, thanks to exponential progress of scientific technology. It will enable us to keep human consciousness/mind permanently, even after physical death of individual humans, through taking out the consciousness/mind as a digital file and reproducing this file in a special computer (so-called “mindcloning”). Such a bright side of singularity is, however, accompanied by a dark side. New technologies represented by nanotechnology may be misused, resulting in development and extensive spread of high-functional ultracompact weapons like “smart dust (foglet),” with the potential of causing collapse of the human civilization. Bright and dark sides of singularity are outlined in this book, citing the fiction “Julian Comstock” and the so-called “NASA Document.”
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The world of tomorrow characterized by nanotechnology and mindcloning/digital immortality is illustrated in this book as a reply to Stefan Zweig who committed suicide together with his wife Lotte in 1942 immediately after completion of the masterpiece “Die Welt von Gestern (World of Yesterday),” leaving a suicide note saying: “I hope my friends can see the dawn after the long night! I, all too impatient, go on before.” The content covers COVID-19, Spanish Flu, Dreamers of the Day, Theatromania, Sigmund Freud, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rainer Maria Rilke, Benito Mussolini, forgotten old German poet, Giacomo Matteotti, Yukio Mishima, Nakamura Utaemon the Sixth, Emperor Qin Shi Huang, Ray Kurzweil, Martine Rothblatt, Peter Diamandis, Love Doll, Foglet, Smart Dust, NASA Document, Fukumi Curve and so on.
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