Open Thread for Episode 20.30 response legacy immortality
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At Atheist Experience #343: Death and Dying, Immortality @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0gyaF9Qx9Q Keryn Glasser talks about how atheists view death. At minute 22 she talks about the kind of immortality she wants. It is usually called legacy or memory immortality; people will remember the (good) things about you in the future after you are dead. She seems like a wonderful person that deserves at least this kind of immortality. When I heard her talk about this I though how can this type of immortality be improved? The key aspect of legacy or memory immortality is not that you get to experience life after death but that through others consciousnesses there is something of you that remains (memories). To increase the positiveness this type of immortality you need more people to remember you, for longer periods of time into the future, with the strongest and most memories of you possible. The little I know about Keryn comes from the Atheist Experience, None the less I have positive memories of her. I think that she is great as a person and think that she should have her desired legacy immortality. I can help her with this task only if I live longer than she does. This is not likely because I am old and she is much younger that am. Now I could try to get my children and grandchildren to watch her on the Atheist Experience, but they have very busy lives and are not likely to do so. If any close enough replica of me is made any time in the future that has memories of her there will be produced a small part of her legacy immortality. Each copy that you make of me that have memories or her is a slight increase in her legacy immortality. We could also make copies of everyone that has ever known her and will have memories of her wonderfulness etc., in her life. We could make as many copies of these people as we wish through out time and space. You might call this super legacy immortality. But there is actually an even better form of legacy immortality. And that is where we actually make replicas of her at different points in her life. These replicas can exist any where humans can exist through out space and time. These memories of her could likely even be generated by computer like replicas of her and others. These replicas of her are not only going to have memories of her they can generate the same experiences that she had and even different possible versions of experiences that she could have had. These replicas could even generate experience and memories of her being great like president Jefferson, Einstein or a good Hitler. These replicas if exact enough in structure and functioning will produce the belief in them that they are actually her, not some replica of her. These legacy replicas of her can even have the thoughts, emotions, feeling, etc., that she had at those points in her life.
Of course I believe in superimmortality which is a theory that predicts that certain types of replicas of me will produce a consciousness that I will experience. But If this is not true then we still can have "Super Legacy Immortality" as Keryn and many other atheists might like. Either way you need the advancement of science and technology (by way of rational though and inquiry) and the perpetuation of conscious beings (humans) taking care of the universe endlessly into the future.