How to Test Whether Consciousness Can Be Revived From Digital Reflections of Consciousness
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The document proposes an experiment to test whether digitally stored mindfiles can be used to regenerate the consciousness of an individual. It outlines a hypothesis and methodology for the experiment. The proposed experiment would involve psychologists interviewing both a "flesh subject" and a "cybersubject" (created using an individual's mindfiles) for 25 hours each over one year. It would then compare the session notes and test for consistency with psychological scales to determine if the cybersubject displays the same consciousness as the individual, with over 80% confidence.
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How to Test Whether Consciousness Can Be Revived From Digital Reflections of Consciousness
- 1. An Experiment to Test the Ability of Digitally-Stored Mindfiles to Regenerate the Consciousness from Which It Came Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D. [email_address]
- 2. Hypothesis Digitally-stored reflections of consciousness will regenerate such consciousness once properly processed with mindware
- 3. Definition of Terms Consciousness A pattern of thinking and feeling, including perceptions and memories, that is typical of a particular person Mindware Software capable of tuning its information processing and external interaction patterns to mimic those of an entity that contributed an associated database Hypothesis needs to be formulated precisely and variables need to be clearly defined.
- 4. Quantitative + Qualitative Qualitative Two psychologists separately interview flesh subject for 25 hours over one year Two psychologists separately interview cybersubject for 25 hours over one year Compare session notes Agree consciousness is same with prob.> 80% Quantitative
- 5. Testably Defining Consciousness Revised Self Consciousness Scale (Scheier & Carver, 1985) Private Self-Consciousness Scale (Fenigstein, Scheier & Buss, 1975) Others?
- 6. Self-Consciousness Scale (SCS) Scores Are Testable Measures The SCS consists of 17 items. Private & Public subscale 10 Private Items, E.g. "I'm generally attentive to my inner feelings". 7 Public Items, e.g, "I'm usually aware of my appearance". Likert-type scales from extremely uncharacteristic of myself (0) to extremely characteristic of myself (4) Add up for total score.
- 7. SCS Scores Are Repeatable SCS is an highly reliable instrument. Fenigstein et al. (1975) obtained high reliability coefficients private self-consciousness (.79) public self-consciousness (.84).
- 8. Testably Stated Hypothesis Dependent Variable > 80% Confidence that consciousness is typical of person, based upon: Dual, independent qualitative comparisons of 25+25 hours of psychological interviews Multiple SCS test results
- 9. Testably Stated Independent Variable Operating code whose initial, application-specific database Is all mindfiles created by an individual pursuant to specific informed consent And that creates a mindfile-adjusted version of itself That runs autonomously with those mindfiles
- 10. Testable Mindware Creation Process Start Candidate Mindware Unique Mindfiles Extract Consciousness Settings Merge Unique Mindware & Mindfiles Autonomy? Attend to its Needs & Prepare for Hypothesis Testing Revise Mindware Y N
- 12. Each Mindfile Contains Informed Consent Consent to be revived as cyber-consciousness Consent to be downloaded into bio-nano or cellular regenerated substrate Consent to be spacecast
- 13. Consciousness Immanent Within Mindfile Psychometrics
- 14. Additional Issues & Questions Why psychologists? Why 25 hours x 2? Automation & Consistency? Medical Ethics of the Experiments?
- 15. Why Psychologists? Courts Use Shrinks As Experts to Determine States of Mind Aware of right & wrong? Doctors Use Shrinks To Determine Mental States Competent to give informed consent?
- 16. Official [Needed] Psychological Specializations Clinical Counseling Developmental Educational Experimental Forensic Health Human Factors Industrial Neurochemical Organizational Physiological School Social [Consciousness] [Cyber]
- 17. Why 25 Hours x 2 Precedent Set by Transgender Medicine Standards Prerequisite for SRS Supports Legalization Similar to Cyber-Issues Ensures Persistence of Conscious State Kind of a Turing Test on Steroids
- 18. Automation & Consistency One or both sets of shrinks could be automated Most of the talking is done by the patient Documentation of sessions digitized Final analyses standardized Psychology is excellent AI application
- 19. Medical Ethics of the Experiment First, do no harm Flesh pt is not harmed; How about the cyber pt? Intend benefit to pt Longer life is good Respect autonomy Informed consent Act fairly to all pts First come, first served; Lottery amongst co-equals for revival
- 20. Avoiding Harm to the Revived Cyberconscious Patient Start with incomplete mindware Ensure full interactivity & connectiveness before complete mindware First test mindware with made-up mindfiles Ensure expert psychological review of each mindware/mindfile merge for consciousness Provide QoL Support for cyberconsciousness
- 21. Are Neurons a Necessary Basis for Consciousness? Neuron growing on carbon nanotube substrate
- 22. Were Feathers A Necessary Basis for Flight?
- 23. On Neurons, Check Back in a Few Decades!