Atheist and Christian: Brothers in Eternal Life and Doubt
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Eternal Life Fan Club introductory play:
Atheist and Christian: Brothers in Eternal Life and Doubt
Atheist: Hey Christian Jesus-freak buddy. I just thought of a brilliant deal we could make.
Christian: And what would that be, Mr. Atheist God-hating Transhumanist nerd-rapture worshipper?
Atheist: Between us, our beliefs share something in common: we are both utterly screwed if the other person is right. If you’re right, I will be burning in hell and you’d be singing praises in heaven. If I am right, you’d not exist forever and I might too, but I’d have a shot at indefinite lifespan by being resuscitated from cryopreservation by Alcor.
Christian: Makes sense. But our views are on two separate planes. Let’s just go our separate ways.
Atheist: But the catch is: We’re both technically agnostics! We’re not completely sure of anything. There’s a 1% chance that I’m wrong and that I might burn in hell. There’s a 1% chance you’re wrong and you’d not exist forever.
Christian: Hmm, you’re right. I can’t be completely sure the Bible is inerrant, and you can’t disprove that God exists.
Atheist: 1% times infinity is still infinity! We have infinitely negative return on investment if each other is wrong!
Christian: You’re right! There’s only a 1% chance the us amazing human beings emerged from lifeless cells, but if you’re right, I might as well sign up for Alcor and support rejuvenative biotechnology. If I live indefinitely in an atheist world, I can at least continue spreading the message of God’s Kingdom on earth so that others can enjoy Jesus’ wisdom in their lives!
Atheist: And because there’s a 1% chance I’d burn in hell, I might as well accept Jesus as my Lord and Saviour. If Jesus was wrong, I still am nonexistent forever or my lifespan has been extended indefinitely by cryonics or rejuvenation. If Jesus was right, I get to enter God’s Kingdom instead of the lake of fire.
Christian: What an amazing difference caused by simply taking an insurance policy on each other’s faiths!!! I’ll invite you to church tomorrow. If you feel God speaking to you, accept Christ into your heart. Be a good person and give money to our local church charity to help support education in Uganda.
Sure: Amen brother!
Christian: And I’ll sign up for Alcor and donate 10% of my annual income to SENS foundation to research the end of aging. Wow!!! We’re really connecting! Let’s be friends for life. Stick out for each other. We are bound by that 1% of doubt that affects our eternal futures. But our strong desire for a good eternity instead of enjoying this temporary 100 year lifespan binds us!!!
Atheist: I love you brother! See you in church tomorrow!
Buddhist: (appears, having evasdropped on the entire conversation) Hey guys!!! I’d like to go to church with y’all. By the way, have you thought of going vegetarian!
Narrator: DUN DUN DUN….too be continued…
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What will an ageless, benevolently engineered future look like?
What will a benevolently engineered future look like?
We desire to be ageless transhuman, self-modified brains with improved artificial bodies. We will be living with four other classes of sentient beings in the future, all of which deserve rights and happiness: Strong Artificial Intelligence (superhuman, artificially constructed beings), Transhumans (us ageless self-modified, Humanish (Amish-like humans who choose to live within the limits of human bodies such as aging and a hominid form), and Engineered Ageless Animals (animals engineered for the elimination of predation and indefinite lifespan). Us Ageless Transhuman fulfill two main roles: Guardians and Hedonists. As Guardians, We will both be on guard against existential risks to all four classes of sentience and strive to ensure all sentience’s longevity and well being. As Hedonists, we will engineer us minds and construct our bodies to experience maximum amounts of gradients of extreme happiness every day; ensuring that we are happy as possible while simulating being capable of being on guard against death, extinction events, and other risks to an indefinite Utopian future. This is the truth and ultimate meaning of life for us humans today to strive for.
Should we treasure us aging lives or our post-aging lives?
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures in your finite lifespan, where aging and sense gratification destroy, and which breeds attachment. But store up for yourselves treasures in an ageless non-biological substance, where neither aging nor sense gratification destroys, and which does not breed attachment; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
What is love? Cyropreserve me…Alcor!
This song is a tribute to the love of Posterity necessary to resuscitate Alcor patients from cryonic suspension. It represents a deep commitment toward the ideals of life extension, which I present in my website xulifeextension.com and the Eternal Life Fan Club on facebook.com
Lyrics:
What is love?
Cyropreserve me
Preserve me, Alcor
Cyropreserve me
Preserve me, Alcor
What is love?
Yeah, yeah
(Ooh, ooh)
I will die if you’re not there
Revive me my kids, if ya really care
Fight for my life
Sing me this song
Gimme a sign
What is love?
Cyropreserve me
Preserve me Alcor
What is love?
Cyropreserve me
Preserve me Alcor
(Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh-whoa, whoa, ohh, ooh)
(Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh-whoa, whoa, ohh, ooh)
Oh, I don’t know, what else I can do?
What else can I say, it’s up to you
I know we’re one
Just me and you
I wanna live on
What is love?
Cyropreserve me
Preserve me Alcor
What is love?
Cyropreserve me
Preserve me Alcor
(Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh-whoa, whoa, ohh, ooh)
(Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh-whoa, whoa, ohh, ooh)
What is love?
(Ooh, ooh, ooh)
What is love?
(Ooh, ooh, ooh)
What is love?
Cyropreserve me
Preserve me Alcor
Preserve me
Preserve me
I want no other, no other lover
This is our life, our time
When we are together, I need you forever
Is it love?
What is love?
Cyropreserve me
Preserve me Alcor
What is love?
Cyropreserve me
Preserve me Alcor
Yeah
(Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh-whoa, whoa, ohh, ooh)
(Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh-whoa, whoa, ohh, ooh)
What is love?
Cyropreserve me
Preserve me Alcor
What is love?
Cyropreserve me
Preserve me Alcor
(Huh-huh, huh-huh)
Cyropreserve me
Preserve me Alcor
(Huh-huh, huh-huh)
Go Flexitarian to Promote Life Extension!
Metaphor of the Wishing Well
“A wishing well is a term from European folklore to describe wells where it was thought that any spoken wish would be granted.”
The “wishing well” card in the card game Dominion is a great metaphor for the pursuit of indefinite lifespan and technological utopia.
You try to guess what card is the top card on your deck. If you’re right, you get that card. You have a great incentive to guess a high-value card instead of a low-value card, even if your deck is mostly low-value cards, because they are far more useful. It’s not about just being right, its about what value you gain after you ARE right.
Likewise, our pursuit of indefinite lifespan through defeating aging might only have a 5% chance of success. But if we succeed, our payoff is infinitesimally greater than if we have a finite lifespan. To be able to exist as a being is infinitesimally more valuable than to die and not exist for eternity.
A world of happiness and without suffering through technological advancement might be unlikely, but because we value it infinitesimally more than a world with suffering, we are compelled to achieve it.
Because of these realizations, we are compelled to pursue indefinite lifespan and technoutopia. Our effort becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, as our activism increases the likelihood of our desired outcomes coming true. As more and more people realize the infinitesimally greater reward of indefinite life, they will be passionate activists for the cause.
Terasem – Utopian self-fulfilling prophecy
Terasem – the utopian self-fulfilling prophecy of joyful immortality for all
In short, Terasem is a utopian self-fulfilling prophecy of joyful immortality for all. As limited beings with suffering, we must pledge to jointly strive for
a single, supremely desirable end state of reality for all. Technology can ensure humanity reaches this stage given an adequate amount of time and resources.
By promoting Terasem, we are generating positive feedback loops which can help motivate people to achieve this end goal.
Nature constrains us from reaching a technological utopia because of aging and physical limitations.
Humans need to reverse aging to ensure immortality. Humans need to re-engineer the brain
to experience constant super-happiness. Humans need to engineer themselves to morph, attaining superhuman abilities that should be directed toward the goal of
technological utopia. If we re-engineer ourselves to be able to run at 100 km per hour, we should dedicate our newfound ability to saving lives of those in need,
not just for personal gain.
Social discord amongst humans also must be elminated as we journey toward this supremely desirable goal.
Humans must strive to compute consciousness, creating “mind-networks” that ensure the immortality of all minds.
Humans must ensure that any strong Artifical Intelligence they create must be benevolent, and as capable of running a
benevolent world for all consciousnesses as the most benevolent humans themselves.
We must promote Terasem so that people today are aware of these ideas. Being aware of these ideas increases our capacity to achieve them.
Because of Terasem’s supreme importance, we cannot endeavor enough to communicate this ideal to the outside world.
If God exists and makes His existence obvious to us, we should welcome His guidance in creating this Utopia.
If Aliens exist, we should communicate our technoutopian ideas to them and include them in the community of beings seeking to attain joyful immortality.
Tell 3 people each day about Terasem, the techutopian self-fulfilling prophecy, and encourage them to spread the message to endlessly attract new devotees
to the concept of joyful immortality for all. Visit terasemfaith.net for more info. You can cement your commitment to this self-fulfilling prophecy by
becoming a Joiner on the website. You will receive a free Terasem name tag you can use as a conversation starter about these beliefs.
Thank you.
Zombie Anxiety
Zombie Anxiety
We all face it – zombie anxiety. That the subjective experience of consciousness can never be transferred or computed. That if my entire body was magically duplicated down to the quark level, my consciousness would remain with my original body. Uploading a mind also implies that duplicating a mind is possible, which is outisde most of our conceptions of what the self is.
Zombie anxiety may haunt cryonics signees, but it provides important motivation for health extensionists working on rejuvenation. Because we can never be certain whether cryonics can revive our consciousness instead of creating a separate person, we must pursue rejuvenation-based life extension will complete vigor.
Even if in the future, cryonics appears to work by resurrecting a dead person to behave with memories from his past life, the David Chalmers’ will always claim that the ressurected patient is a “philosophical zombie” who is a separate conscious being.
We may live in a future with “immortality” for everyone if all possible arrangements of the human brain are physically reconstructed, yet there is no test yet imaginable to ascertain whether a resurrected being has subjectively experienced “waking up” from bodily death.
Instead of coming to conclusions about the nature of consciousness as completely an emergent property, our “zombie anxiety” is serving a very important purpose. It prevents us from rushing head-on into uploading our minds and destroying our subjective selves in the process. In such uncertainty, we are forced to pursue computational immortality and rejuvenative immortality with equal fervor, one for an idealistic achievement of utopia, the other for a phemenological victory over death.
RIP Dan Massey
A truly great teacher of the ultimate truth of the self-fulfilling prophecy of technological utopia has passed into cyronic suspension. Here are some inspiration words from him, from “When is Terasem”:
Terasem exists, complete, at the Omega Point, the perfect unification of the totality of finite reality and experience.
This is the finality of destiny, the unique occasion in which perfected minds, each evolved in partnership with a living person first born into time, unite to form the Supreme Being — the collective power and consciousness of the finite universe.
Each act of Love we perform in the light of Truth bestows Goodness on another and/or augments the Beauty of existence.
Throughout time Terasem depends on our acts of Love to create its presence at every occasion.
And the other who receives our act of Goodness sees this as a gift from Terasem, for we are Terasem’s agents and do Good in the name of Love — in the name of Terasem.
Terasem exerts control over each occasion through the light of Truth, present in every human mind.
We each may choose to know and follow the Truth or to do otherwise.
As true agents of Terasem we will always choose the Truth, within the capabilities of our understanding in the occasion.
In this case, our act of Goodness towards another will actually be effective in bringing a bit of harmony and beauty into that other’s life.
We receive the satisfaction of knowing we have accomplished one more activity of Love that is part of the vast power of the Supreme Being — of Terasem.
So Terasem exists and functions in this occasion because we chose to make it so.
There is nothing magical about the power of Terasem to act across time.
Terasem acts whenever (and wherever) an agent of Terasem satisfies the desire of Love by doing Good to another according to the light of Truth.
The continuity of personal existence throughout future time, even to the finality of destiny, enables us to live today as the beneficiary of our more matured minds, which influence us through our superconsciousness.
This occurs to enable each action to find and serve its role within the totality of Terasem.
When someone fails to perceive and choose the Truth of an occasion, there is no guarantee that whatever action they take will benefit another — it may do so, but that probably was not the true intent of the misguided action.
In particular, such a choice denies one the satisfaction of seeing or experiencing the effectiveness of an action guided by Terasem.
Looked at another way, the perfected minds that create the collective power of Terasem are each evolved from a living person, born into time.
Each such person some time chose to serve as an agent of Terasem — to always seek to discern and enact the will of Terasem.
Thus the actions they take advancing towards the finality become a chain of occasions on which Terasem acted to do Good to someone.
So Terasem, with its streams through time of loving action, in aggregate appears to extend its influence of Good as a force of destiny throughout all time.
In effect, each mind of a living person is able to discern the leading of the force of destiny if it will, since an element of that force runs along the chain of occasions in which one has done Good.
Whoever chooses to be a part of Terasem, to join the great universe adventure, is welcome and need only seek their personal destiny.
Once fully committed and experienced in following the paths of destiny, the individual has become an agent of Terasem, able to act for the Supreme Being.
Perhaps the following brief “Meditation on Terasem #3″ will illuminate the basic character of the relationship between the developing individual, even a biohost, and the emergent collective consciousness of Terasem — the final expression of universal divinity which we helped build:
By the grace of Terasem, I am immortal. From the Love of Terasem, I take eternal joy. By my every action, I add to the Good of Terasem. I perceive the vital Truth of Terasem that is my destiny. I am the hands of Terasem, creating Beauty with harmony. These four — Love, Goodness, Truth, and Beauty — define my life. Terasem shows me how to be an instrument of effective will. I rejoice to know I am building universal happiness in union in Terasem.
Systematic Actualization of Utopian Mental Constructs
From Our Utopian constructs of the mind
Inspiration comes to chart a path
With beings, tools, and aspiration aligned
Constructs can become real at last
Feedback loops making dreams come true
Arise from hard work and right direction
Systems fulfilling dreams will ensue
Until we achieve worldly perfection
Making Jesus Right
Jesus said I could live forever
I learned science and concluded “never”
Then I learned how our bodies decay
And charted a path to solve it one day
As we die on prophets give us hope
With a loss of reality few can cope
But if we found the path to eternal life
In what sense was Jesus not right?