Lifeboat Foundation PersonalityPreserver
By
Martine Rothblatt,
Charles Tandy,
Philippe
Van Nedervelde and the
Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board. This is an ongoing
program so you may submit suggestions to
[email protected].
Overview
Methods of preserving persons — or just their personalities —
include
cryopreservation,
uploading,
and
time travel via acceleration to very high speeds.
Cyropreservation
Regardless of what the threat is, in many
cases the ability to weather the storm at
cryogenic temperatures would
allow time for the threat to blow over so that those at greatest risk
can survive while those (or those mechanisms) in a better position to
combat the threat at normal body temperature do so.
Uploading
A personality could be
uploaded or migrated to a computer as well as being
broadcast to the universe so a future ET could
reinstantiate them in case an existential risk occurs. Instead of an
ET, if one is willing to entertain either faster-than-light travel or
non-Euclidean-space travel (e.g. wormholes), it may even be possible
that our far-future descendants pick up our broadcasts and reconstruct
us.
Time Travel
By travelling at very high speeds, time would slow down for the
traveller
per Einsteinian Relativity.