Which road to immortality would you choose?

At TransVision 2007 last week, Terasem Foundation founder Martine Rothblatt discussed “Cybernetic Biostasis.” The idea is that people should be creating digital mindfiles throughout their lives that could be used to revive them by means of mindware when sufficiently strong artificial intelligence is developed. As Rothblatt explained, mindfiles would record aspects of an individual including mannerisms, personality traits, recollections, feelings, beliefs, attitudes and values. This can be done compiling digital photos and videos, blogs and diaries, the results of psychological testing, and sensecam data.

Alcor Life Extension Foundation presented another method: cryonic suspension and eventual reanimation.
“Cryonics is an experiment. The question is, do you want to be in the experimental group or in the control group?” asked nanotechnologist Ralph Merkle.