From: brent.allsop@attbi.com
Date: Mon Dec 16 2002 - 15:48:35 MST
Robert,
I explore this idea in a short story I’ve written. Basically once we have near
human level AIs what is called an artificially intelligent "Estate" is created
for everyone that has known to have existed. The goal of these AI "Estates" is
two fold. One is to archive, recover, and keep as much as the original as
possible and two is to behave as the original would have behaved. In the story
these "Estates" are given the right to vote but their votes only count as half
a vote and so on.
If society advances to a state required to resurrect and restore people that
were not cryonically preserved a subset of a growing "Estate" will have become
identical to what the original was. At that point in time the original
is "resurrected" in the state they were in just before they died. These
resurrected beings are worshiped and celebrated as the literal creators of
humanity, society, and all their descendents. They are then brought up to
speed and given all that the "Estate" had accumulated up until that time,
including all memories and so on.
It’s basically the logical extension of us wanting to preserve as much of Sasha
as possible. As we move into the future we will rapidly become much better at
recovering and preserving more and more of what Sasha was. Who knows if we’ll
ever be able to truly restore enough of him to truly resurrect him, but surely
we’ll soon be able to do infinitely more than we can do today.
For those interested the short story, entitled "1229 Years After Titanic", it
is available here:
http://home.attbi.com/~brent.allsop/
Brent Allsop
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