Survival as a Digital Ghost |
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Authors: | Eric Steinhart |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Philosophy, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ 07470, USA |
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Abstract: | You can survive after death in various kinds of artifacts. You can survive in diaries, photographs, sound recordings, and
movies. But these artifacts record only superficial features of yourself. We are already close to the construction of programs
that partially and approximately replicate entire human lives (by storing their memories and duplicating their personalities).
A digital ghost is an artificially intelligent program that knows all about your life. It is an animated auto-biography. It
replicates your patterns of belief and desire. You can survive after death in a digital ghost. We discuss a series of digital
ghosts over the next 50 years. As time goes by and technology advances, they are progressively more perfect replicas of the
lives of their original authors.
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Keywords: | Virtual persons Recorded personalities CARPE Survival Afterlife |
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