Martine Rothblatt (Photo : Photo: Facebook)
United Therapeutics CEO and transhumanist Martine Rothblatt believes artificial intelligence can let human beings live forever one day.
The highest paid female CEO was the keynote speaker in SXSW 2015 and she elaborated on a process giving convincing reasons why humans would want to essentially live forever through "Mind Clones".
Transhumanism may end our mortal coil one day. She says, immortality starts with a mind file, which will encapsulates the thoughts, mannerisms, relationships, and pretty basically everything else a human mind is capable of dealing with.
"There will be continued advances in software that we see throughout our lives. Eventually, these advances in software will rise to the level of consciousness," Rothblatt said.
If technology reaches that point where software rise to the level of consciousness, there will be no reason why the human consciousness can't live forever. And that will probably be the end of the verse: Man is mortal.
If you are still confused with the provided information, Rothblatt has some practical examples for you to make it easy.
"We are living in a world where all of your life is captured. There is work going on at Amazon, Google, and Apple that is Mindware. It is software designed to process and recreate all of these inputs to create a consciousness," she said.
Rothblatt believes a mind clone will be the same as the person who is being cloned. She says, it would be like having a cozy friend who is you and the software would really be alive once it has the consciousness.
Rothblatt further added that once the mindware gets the inputs, it just needs a robot to host all the information. And, if you think she is talking whimsy, she has a proof of this at her home, writes PC Magazine.
In fact, Rothblatt has created a "mind clone" of her wife, Bina Aspen, named Bina48 which is a just head and torso. However, Bina48 is a significantly sophisticated home-built mind clone; she can carry on a conversation, tweet, and expresses numerous ideas.
Rothblatt is not daydreaming or talking about crazy sci-fi. She is devoted to organ transplant technology and working on a project which can allow people to grow their own organs one day too.
According to Austin 360, there are many issues in making these technologies successful, but her take on the future is utopian, not dystopian. And her curiosity can really make us immortal some day.
She said, "There is no line in the sand at which point human consciousness has to end."
