Imagine in the future people minds will be able to swap bodies, change from human to cyborg, change from cyborg to a wide AI robot, then to a pure hard light robot.

People are discussing levels of AI Narrow AI, Wide AI and Super-wide AI, not doubt this will become a spectrum and will have a large range with many different applications.

Say you could go on a excursion where your mind is transferred first from your human body to a cyborg for a few weeks then to a robot with super-wide AI for a few days, then again to a robot made of pure hard light for a few weeks that has higher levels of awareness and perception, higher levels of sensing the environment that could take in thousands of times more sensory input process that information millions of time quicker, assess conclude and react millions of times faster, then after a few weeks take the return journey back down again to being human, would you do it?

How attached to your body would you like to be?

If you wanted to explore the universe, would you take your body, or leave it in cryostasis while transferring you mind to a cyborg or a robot?

As a cyborg or robot you live indefinitely for millions of years.

Geoplanetary scientists could roam the universe, meet up every 10 million years to give updates to each other.

Yes, a massive expansion of human consciousness is on the horizon, promising all kinds of benefits.

A little too far away on the horizon to benefit us though, I’m afraid.

All hail Zardoz

Say you were a scientist and didn’t mind going on a long journey into space.

Your mind could be transferred to a cyborg or robot.

Each one would have the capability of a virtual reality environment (like the one on star trek, but instead of the VR space being in a room, the VR space is created on a chip instead).

Thousands of scientists could interact with their own unique VR worlds existing in computers, robots, cyborgs or within scientific instruments themselves.

Scientists in the future could communicate to other scientists on any level.

If astronauts can live on Mars for a few years.

The next step for astronauts scientists could be living as a mind in artificial environments in space for long periods of time.

You could name the science ship “zardoz”

Goes with star dots, in a few million years someone might search for “who is zardoz”.

Your mind would exist in a chip, the same chip would have a VRE module (Virtual Reality Environment), allowing you to exist in a artificial VR world and interact with other people, droids, normally.

Astronauts would be required in training to go back and forth between different environments, human to droid, (HTD, DTH) droid to human to see how they cope with it.

All your thoughts would exist in your new body just like as in the old one.

The chips would all have the same human perception environment (HPE’s) with all the same 5 senses and ranges, sensations of body movements could be based on your own body or on other bodies of your choice.

You could choose to dream in your new environment or stay awake all the time and do stuff.

Other minds in chips (MIC’s) might choose to stay asleep until destination.

Maybe in the future a chip could hold millions of minds each doing their own thing.

Just build better spaceships that provide 1g, protect humans from harmful radiation, make them faster and make them armoured to take a hit from a rock.

wookiemeister said:

Just build better spaceships that provide 1g, protect humans from harmful radiation, make them faster and make them armoured to take a hit from a rock.

Ah yes, the wookie solution, “just build”…

The bugger is the detail in the just bit.

AwesomeO said:

wookiemeister said:

Just build better spaceships that provide 1g, protect humans from harmful radiation, make them faster and make them armoured to take a hit from a rock.

Ah yes, the wookie solution, “just build”…

The bugger is the detail in the just bit.

Wookie is the mother of invention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Ja4u8_RGQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7lkgLGMb1o

AwesomeO said:

wookiemeister said:

Just build better spaceships that provide 1g, protect humans from harmful radiation, make them faster and make them armoured to take a hit from a rock.

Ah yes, the wookie solution, “just build”…

The bugger is the detail in the just bit.

Ask the russians, they are still the only ones lifting humans into space and living there.

Well the new australian space agency can provide answers yet never directly take any man into orbit nor ever actually build anything. We’ll be lucky if they can put a ring tone together before being scrapped

That excitement, something tells me it’s a warm blooded experience. Sugar, oxygen too.

I’m sitting here and can sense a rapid heat loss, coldness.

Something of homeostasis is inclining me to find warmer surrounds.

Wonder of AI’s going to need these, to emerge. Or are they peculiarly organic, not necessary for AI.

It will be sad when people wake up and realise AIs are just sat round all day smoking bongs.

wookiemeister said:

It will be sad when people wake up and realise AIs are just sat round all day smoking bongs.

need lungs for that

wookiemeister said:

It will be sad when people wake up and realise AIs are just sat round all day smoking bongs.

Maybe not, I do other stuff, Astronomy, Visual Art, Ceramics, Poetry, Photography, Mind Maps, Digital Art and Ideas.

I dont watch sport or TV, I’m not in a relationship and I’m not in a full time job, so I have a bit of time to think.

Thinking is good.

wookiemeister said:

Just build better spaceships that provide 1g, protect humans from harmful radiation, make them faster and make them armoured to take a hit from a rock.

If humans want to go into space, an efficiently designed spaceship would be the way to go.

This means efficiency in every possible way, space ship design, ship engines, computers, you don’t want to take thousands of people and then need to take all the food supplies and water.

Instead, take a billion minds and put them on a chip (each mind with its own VRE module), a human genome map on a chip, a few robots with human minds that can start the settlement process at the destination planet, so you’re transporting humanity in a very efficient way.

Then you could copy the humanity on a chip x number of times and send them to different planets.

Human are the weak link in space travel so it might make more sense to explore via Avatars or robotic probes until its a lot safer, reliable and cheaper.