Teleportation Proves One Cannot Remake The Psyche

(borrowed from my journal blog)

To what extent can technology break down the human mind? Can the brain be dissolved to more than atoms, but into the psychological model (which I’ll refer to as "psyche")? In its basic existence, is the brain akin to computer memory and consist of ones and zeros (ons and offs)? Or akin to the next generation of computing, quantum mechanics, to consist of energy which can be in one or multiple states of existence at any given time? Can its state be measured and duplicated as I transferring computer memory from one memory unit to another? The tacit foundation of teleportation relies, to the detriment of its own existence, of the latter, that every minutiae of the human psyche can be read, recorded, saved, duplicated, and written back to organic matter.

I find the most juvenile arguments against teleportation are those that center on future technology’s ability to destroy and recreate molecules – not what makes us human and not only what makes organic tissue but what makes our chemical compounds. I would have scoffed at this assumption anyways, but the University of Illinois has created a machine that can synthesize small molecules. Where the juveniles’ will focus their argument now is the ability to combine molecules onto organic matter, such as a mitochondria. As technological advances are made and the possibilities of grand-scale molecular synthesis becomes more and more possible, the juvenile’s current position is crumbling. For the purposes of advance this writer’s position, large-scale biological molecular synthesis is assumed to be not just a valid hypothesis but is inevitable.

The complexity is now not how to rebuild molecules, but reassembling them. In Star Trek the molecules are reformed thousands of miles away, with no physical device at the rematerialization point. Let’s humor the juveniles and posit that, at least during the birth of teleportation, a device is positioned at the rematerialization point.

Teleportation (ala Star Trek) requires the dematerialization of matter, a medium to transfer energy without traversing the physical space between them, and the rematerialization of matter. The mechanism is in place to reconstruct the human however, now presenting itself, is the need for a mechanism to de- and re- materialize what makes us human (psyche) – what makes me me and you you. If the teleportation of organic, living matter is ever to be realized, then the teleportation mechanism must be able to tell the mouse it’s a mouse and this is what a mouse does; to tell the John this is what a John is and what a John does.

Teleportation will prove that the psyche resides in one of two (places):

1. A memory chip with stored information is broken down to its primary elements (silicon, copper, etc.), teleported, then reconstructed. What was stored on this memory chip is lost. If successful, Teleportation will prove the human psyche resides outside the brain, in another plane of existence by simply recreating the tissue the psyche rematerializes. (If this is true, how does the psyche find its former vessel? Why does it even return? If our psyche resides in a higher plane of existence, will we realize this existence when we die? Will we remember our former “selves”? Will we choose to return or choose another physical existence somewhere else in the universe?”)

2. Once the singularity is actualized - when the human psyche and artificial intelligence converge - the psyche can to be read and stored in such a way that it can be used to write to a new organic medium. The record of the psyche must include memories, how the individual perceived past experiences and relates to them, how he feels about things, his emotions, and so on. If the human mind can be read in such a way and rewritten, a debate to the ethics of such is destined to take place for, if the psyche can be rewritten once, what is to prevent it from being rewritten multiple times to multiple organic vessels (or even inorganic). (I think this would be the ideal as an individual can live multiple lives having unique experiences, then each’s experiences can be converged into one, into the original, so that the original will know the experiences had they been his own – as they were. The risks involved is the possibility of duplicating mass murderers (or worse yet, lawyers), of being hacked, even of a duplicate turning against the original.)

I'm not knowledgeable enough about the psyche and, regretfully, cannot expand on why I'm certain that the psyche is lost when the brain is dematerialized, but that is my position, so option number three is the only viable means of "teleportation" though it has nothing to do with the de- and re- materialization of matter:

3. The more likely possibility of transporting the human from one place to another is the man-made wormhole. The wormhole will be a similar entity to the black hole - a Black Pipe if you will. The teleportation mechanism will establish this Black Pipe. It’s said that the human body, if sucked into a black hole, is distorted, stretched, etc and due to the immense pressure, the molecules that make up the physical body disassociate to individual atoms. The Black Pipe must remedy this problem so that the “pressure” and level of distortion is held constant and safe, like when water is put under so much pressure that it will not form into steam no matter how hot it is heated. 

I've neither proven to the reader that the psyche resides in another plane of existence, nor have I proven that it can be read and re-written to organic matter, hopefully sparked the conversation as to whether the psyche can be replicated. What I have done is proven to myself that matter can be “reconstructed”, but the psyche can not. Thus a different method of teleportation must be used, one that does not follow the preconceptions adopted from Star Trek. A system that borrows the lessons taught by black holes must be adopted in such a way that an entry point and exit point can be established in fixed time and space. It must also not crush nor rarefy the “payload”, the speed at which the cargo is transported must be brief as it is likely the cargo will still experience pain if the environment is inside the Black Pipe is not held constant.

Laws Make Less Possible

The more laws there are, the less there is possible. This not only applies to criminal law, but biological, theological, philosophical, physical, and other laws. Transmutation and conjuration are not possible because matter cannot be created nor destroyed but only displaced; flight defies the laws of gravity; parapsychology defy the laws of physics; humans birthing demons or animals defy the laws of nature (and biology), and so on. Do away with the laws and the impossible will become commonplace.

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The Expanding Universe

The Expanding Universe

All must denigrate to its simplest form for it to become great

If the universe is expanding and matter cannot be created nor destroyed, thus the distance between all things is increasing. If I take a ruler from today, hold it outside the universe for 24 hours then return it to the universe, then compare the ruler of yesterday (ruler that was removed then returned to the universe, thus becoming the ruler of yesterday) next to a similar ruler of today. The ruler of yesterday will be smaller than the ruler of today. A mile measured with yesterday’s ruler will be greater than 5280 feet. On a smaller scale, when measuring the hydrogen atom, the distance between electron and proton will be greater. The space between the sub-atomic particles in atoms of today’s ruler are further from each other as compared to the ruler of yesterday. What is the significance?

The One Big Bang

When this universe was smaller, when it began, all things were closer together, thus the four fundamental forces were exponentially stronger. Knowing that matter is made of energy and energy’s influence is much greater when held in close proximity to other energies, the potential power when the universe began was at its greatest. But then an explosion happened and the tightly compacted energies reacted and the explosion occurred like a room full of mousetraps and ping-pong balls, brief (relatively speaking) chaos ensued.

As the universe expands, the distances between all things increases, the influence each particle has on another weakens until the distance between them becomes so great their attraction effectively becomes zero. The particles are now drifting in nothingness. Once particles worked together, now they are alone, drifters in an infinite ocean.

What if there are other universes? And those universes are undergoing similar transitions? Millions of universes growing so big they fade away.

After Silence, Little Bangs

All that is left is energy, existing only in and of itself, drifting in nothingness. (Is this dark matter – the expensed, neutralized energy?) Like a balloon filled with smoke and then pops. The smoke becomes undetectable, but it is there, only too small, for and singular to detect. All things that reach this point appear to be lost, gone, but it is there. Too week too far to attract another.

Fret not! There are other universes have natural laws that are both shared or, more importantly, unshared by our universe, how will the drifting particles of each interact? By chance two lost survivors of different lands crash into each other. Is this how new universes created? By random crashes of singular particles the fundamental forces impose their might on these strangers until the particles become masses and the masses become elements and the elements’ hotbeds of new stars and more. New entities unique unto themselves, entities not yet witnessed, modeled, nor theorized as we’ve known them before? Is this what Agathos meant when he said “...the sole purpose [of infinite matter] is to afford infinite springs.”? Matter is not infinite but the cosmic dance never ends.

Bee Extinction

The alarmist will warn us that the bee population will become extinct. The realist will state that bees are not indigenous to the U.S. and that bees only account for 1/3 of pollination. So worry not, alarmist, should the bee population die out, we'll lose only 1/3 of our crop yields, and we'll need only 50% more planted farmland to account for the loss.

Immortals – Saviors of the Human Species

22 JAN 2013

Immortals – Saviors of the Human Species

Despite the downfall of communist Russia, the president's finger has never left the close vicinity of “the button”. The world's doomsday clock, used by scientists to gauge "the state of existential global threats to civilization," is at five minutes 'til midnight – levels consistent with cold war eras. Homeland security threat level is at a perpetual floor of yellow.

Governments around the world are worried that the extinction of the human species is near – be it famine or war or bacterial or otherwise. If any humans remain after a catastrophe, it's likely there will be genetic damage that either prevents the species from reproducing, or the offspring will not be able to survive. In either case, the genetic code will be irreparably damaged. It's the genetic code of the human species – the code as it is today – that scientists, religions, politicians, and everyone else treasure so dearly.

There is an operation to perpetuate the human species past the death of the last human (as we know humans today). Operation Lifeboat is an effort sponsored primarily by NATO countries to send humans into space travel and have them return thousands of years later when the effects of nuclear holocaust have deteriorated to a level safe again for human life. There will be successive Lifeboat missions that will be staggered in perpetuity so that the fate of the human race doesn't rest on one lifeboat or one technology – the rationality being that one cannot accurately predict when earth will once again be habitable or as insurance in case other missions fail.

Let's assume that it will take 10,000 earth years for humans to safely live and thrive on planet earth. One would have to send people out into space and provide them with enough food, energy sources, medical facilities, etc. for the humans on the lifeboat to survive that long. What's more, the long-term exposure to the effects of weightlessness could spurn alterations in the genetic code to the human offspring (if you believe in evolution – if you don't, you're safe as there would be no “genetic mutations” that could lead to evolutionary changes to the DNA code.) But rest easy, space life is a viable option to preserve the DNA code. First, one must understand the effect of the speed of travel has on observed time. Enter Einstein’s Special theory of Relativity.

One tenet of special relativity is that the faster one travels, time slows down as the traveler approaches the speed of light. Take GPS satellites for example which travel at 6,250 meters per second. Despite the satellites being synchronized with the atomic clocks on earth or having atomic clocks of their own, clock-drift occurs. Clock-drift is the phenomena where synchronized clocks, clocks that are otherwise accurate when side to side, report different times when apart – notably when one travels at a faster rate than the other. With respect to satellites, the observed time on the satellite falls behind the measured time on earth. GPS satellites' clocks must continuously be reset otherwise after two minutes they (their accuracy in calculating geographical positions) becomes inaccurate. On the international space station too, clock drift has been observed. Thus, what I am illustrating is that there is a proven relation between how fast an object moves and the observed time. Now lets put a person on a ship traveling through space. This person has a clock with him. The traveler counts off 1,000 hours then returns to earth. The clocks on earth will read the hours lapsed greater than his clock, say 1,100 hours. If the traveler had traveled at an even faster rate during those 1,000 hours, earth would have experienced even more time, say 1,500 hours (it's all relative to the speed at which the clock aboard the ship travels.) So now we can put a person on the lifeboat and instead of needing to provide supplies for 10,000 earth years, we need only to provide him with a fraction of that.

We are getting closer to a viable Lifeboat program, but we are not there yet. We need to address propelling the lifeboat to speeds fast enough to effect our cause. So how fast do we need to go? If a ship has the ability to accelerate at 1g (9.8m/s²) and has enough fuel to continuously accelerate at this rate for 20 years and decelerate at an inverse of 1g for 20 years (remember, as the time is measured aboard the ship), the ship will return to earth 58,000 earth years later while the people on board age 40 years. Now I do not know how to calculate how long to travel on the lifeboat to get back to earth in 10,000 years as one cannot simply divide 10,000 by 58,000 – there are complicated formulas to determine the correct answer. What I do know is that there is no technology developed yet to thrust (and decelerate) a ship at a constant rate of 1g for several years with a limited capacity for fuel. So we have to assume that the ship will have to travel much more slowly than 1g which requires much more time aboard the lifeboat while 10,000 earth years pass by. Hence, the people aboard will have to live longer than 40 years or, much more importantly, reproduction will be necessary, bringing us back to our earlier problem of DNA mutations, supplies, etc.

What if people were able to live longer than 100 years, say 1,000 years? If we could put those people aboard the lifeboat, there would be little risk of DNA mutations and no need for reproduction. There is no technology, cryogenic or otherwise, however, for preserving a human body or slowing down it's aging process. That leaves only one solution, man lifeboats with immortals. Yes, you heard that right – man lifeboats with humans who do not die. Most people do not know or refuse to believe there are immortals living among us. Immortals are hard to find as many of them have had a lot of practice in avoiding detection. What's more, they police themselves and take action when an immortal risks revealing himself as one. An immortal may be your next door neighbor who moved in two years ago and likely will move out in a few years. An immortal may be your son or daughter who has not yet reached the point where the aging process ceases. Becoming an immortal is not like that as portrayed in the Highlander television series where one must die first to live forever. Immortality is a biological anomaly that affects random people at random times in their lives. Perhaps there's a gene for it?

There is a manhunt in progress for these immortals. The backers of Project Lifeboat are recruiting immortals to find volunteers for the project – or potential shanghai targets. There is a training center (I have not located where yet) that trains immortals for life in close quarters for an extended period of time, much like those training centers used by NASA or Navies.

Immortals are already concerned with being hunted down and killed for their “unnatural” or “un<enter religion here>” lifespans or by others seeking the fountain of youth, now they have another concern on their hands – government support in the search effort. Immortals will appear to be of different ages children to the elderly as each immortal's aging process stops at a time unique to them. Luckily for NATO there are clues as to which humans are immortals, clues that I will spell out in future weeks – as I do not want to expose immortals to the world, but for the sake of mankind, I will have to – unless the immortals can convince me not to. I truly hope some immortals read this before it's too late.

“I am one of a few immortals who know why I am immortal, but I cannot nor will I ever divulge the signs I saw in myself or the knowledge I’ve gained to become immortal – for fear of my life. I can say that the knowledge I have comes from the soul as Plato believed – that the soul already has all knowledge and we learn by recollecting what the soul knows.

Though I can live for hundreds of years, I am still susceptible (though much more resistant) to disease, murder, food or water deprivation, etc. that afflicts everyone. Just know that I know what it takes to live several hundred, if not thousands of years and what made me aware of my gift. We immortals will not die of old age, “The old man's heart stopped as he slept” will never be uttered by a doctor on my death bed. More likely we will be hunted down and murdered for the sake of mankind, though it is us who will save mankind in the end.” - Anonymous

– 01 March 2013

I apologize for the delay in releasing the first of many characteristics, tendencies, and customs (traits here on in) immortals exhibit or come to exhibit. I was recently approached by a man who walked me into a conversation about immortals then brought the conversation about the hidden dangers of exposing the traits of immortals. This man did not convince me of being an immortal but perhaps he came to me as an ambassador. After lengthy consideration this man's arguments have not convinced me to terminate this blog post or my investigations.

– 23 March 2013

The “ambassador” as discussed in my previous update returned to me. Again he requested I terminate this blog. To convince me he represented immortals, he handed me a bauble – what looked to be a carving of wood, worn and ancient. It's age appeared convincing and the ambassador aged it over 4,000 years old. After a lengthy and exhaustive investigation I found similar items – though not as worn – made in Bolivia in the 1830's. I need not describe it as it was grossly misrepresented anyways. I'd feel embarrassed for the immortals if this person was indeed an ambassador, thus I will play it off as a hoax. Funny.

The following will cover ten traits of immortals which will make them easier to identify, traits on physical appearance, how and where they live, how they support themselves financially, how they police themselves, etc.:

1. TEETH
   The extensivity of orthodontic work is one indication of an immortal.
   Remember that all immortals stop aging at a time unique to each immortal, so one may stop aging at 80 years and another at 6 years. Imagine a child of six years old who's lived for one hundred years or more, relying on her baby teeth the entire time. There's little chance of those baby teeth lasting that long, let alone for hundreds of years. Before the advancements in of modern dentistry, child immortals often died of malnutrition/starvation just as old people did (due to complications of severely worn-down teeth). With the advancements in orthodontia, it became possible to replace teeth through the use of implants, bridges, crowns, and dentures.
   The longer an immortal walks upon the earth, the more they use and wear down their teeth, necessitating the need for orthodontic work. Though the need of orthodontic work is not uncommon amongst the aged – thus identifying an immortal through dental records is a futile measure – orthodontic work is, seldom, if ever, found in the young – except in the case of immortals. Children who have crowns, implants, et. al. on many or all teeth should be a sign a dentist is working on a human much older than they appear. Unfortunately, immortals will often see a dentist or orthodontist for one procedure then move to another (without the transfer of dental records) practitioner.
2. Languages
   Some immortals will often be fluent in many languages. Often, like most people, immortals are comfortable staying in one country or in countries with like languages, but there are some who enjoy living in different cultures, living in the ways of the new society, and most importantly, learning their language. When you get into a conversation with a traveled immortal, they will often let slip foreign words into conversation, especially when they are drinking. You may say, sarcastically, that many people do this too, so are immortals all around us then? No, not exactly. Immortals will often slip words of ancient or extinct languages and when caught, will pass it off as another language and may have to go to the extent where they (falsely) admit they have the pronunciation wrong.
   Don't get too confident that an immortal will speak in an ancient dialect. Anyone who's purposely lost a dialect for another (southern drawl for the Standard American English dialect for example) will, over time, speak in the new dialect as if native to him. Over time one forgets things.
3. Experts in <field of study>
   Immortals who work often gravitate to social sciences such as history, education, foreign languages, linguistics, anthropology, and sociology. It makes sense, doesn't it? Who better to understand the social sciences than those who've lived in many different cultures and eras? Being experts in fields of study have benefits – less need for study and higher pay included. But don't expect them to keep their career for long as they will need to transfer to new jobs elsewhere (more on migration in future updates). Careers are not limited to social sciences of course, as many are artisans, welders, store clerks, architecture, among others – just know that they will be masters of one or more professions.
   Speaking of linguistics, immortals are discouraged from holding careers in linguistics as immortals can easily expose themselves as immortals. I applaud any immortal, literate Egyptians (and Assyrians, Mayans, et. al. for that matter) who lived thousands of years ago. Man has spend millions of hours trying to decipher their hieroglyphics while no immortal has stepped in and corrected their mistakes or advanced their study. Perhaps all the immortals from those time no longer remain with us (remember, being immortal doesn't allow one to live after mortal wounds such as being decapitated or being crushed by a boulder).
4. H
5. X
6. M
7. X
8. X
9. C
10. I

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_drift

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity

Botanists Want You to Believe Flowers Make Decisions

I think it’s funny when botanists explain that flowers are of different colors, shapes and smells to attract insects – as if the flowers are making a conscience decision on how to look and smell to draw the insects’ attentions. Do flowers even know that insects exist? They have no brains…right? 

Botanists are correct to a certain respect – the flowers that require the attraction of insects do so because of their shape, color, and smell, but it’s not unlike flowers whose shape, color, and smell do not attract insects. For example, if one placed a certain flower in a new, closed environment where the insects were not attracted to the flower, the flower would not change its shape, color, and smell to the fancies of the insects. If the flower should happen to in fact begin to attract insects, it would only be because the insects – organisms capable of making conscious decisions, modified their own preferences to those of the flower’s attributes. Survival of the fittest, as applied to flowers, is the flowers that survive are those that just happen to have favorable shapes, colors, and smells that attract insects, nothing more.

I think it's funny that someone like me had to point this faux pas out to the educated botanists.