Semi-Immortality and the Call for Players ILabs

1 semi-immortality , call players

1.1 mathematics, physics, computer science
1.2 biology, medicine, psychology
1.3 philosophy, law, politics

semi-immortality , call players

“semi-immortality” title of ilabs volume detailing first thirty years of research: since doubtful full immortality can achieved physical entities, term “semi-immortality” preferred main tag on ilabs vision.

there 2 explicit assumptions underlying labs work: first, global perspective may lead mankind radical extension of life-span. according founders, technology , science play major role, without addressing serious challenges in ethics , social theory attempts doomed failure. second, achieving “semi-immortality” hard, articulated task requiring huge efforts , resources, finest minds.

in 2008, ilabs published online first version of “call players”, detailing fields of study in global agenda , explaining labs’ structure , activities. document’s explicit aim attract interested researchers projects.

according document, semi-immortality picture declined in 3 core areas of study , intervention:

mathematics, physics, computer science

ilabs projects in area based on so-called mathematics of models of reference. theory –created gabriele rossi , developed francesco berto , jacopo tagliabue – use cellular automata theory building block of computation , perfect isomorphism between matter , information main “philosophical” assumption.

ilabs digital universe satisfies universality (it equivalent turing machine) , perfect reversibility (a desideratum if 1 wants preserve various quantities , never lose information), , comes embedded in first-order theory allowing computable, qualitative statements on universe evolution.

biology, medicine, psychology

after 2 decades of studies on mind-body relations , psycho-oncology, ilabs started development of proprietary protocol health monitoring, inspired success of evidence-based medicine.

collecting more 80 million single blood tests, department of psychoneurophysiology created imed, statistical estimator of “biological age”. algorithm takes input subject’s blood test , gives probability distribution; statistics can used compare subject’s real age biological age, thereby yielding quantitative assessment of aging rate.

imed being expanded include other simple , inexpensive test improve estimator accuracy: hope develop easy-to-use , reliable method objectively assess health status of subject

philosophy, law, politics

given attention ilabs has been putting on ethical aspects of technological developments, not surprising many activities focused on forecasting social changes , planning new scenarios justice, economy, education.

gabriele rossi – popular entrepreneur , innovator in italian insurance market – wrote dozens of articles in popular , specialized magazines on impact of technological revolution (and life-span extension) on economy , society whole.

more recently, ilabs published law in society of semi-immortality: essay argues 2 radical changes in how justice , morality conceived. approaching singularity, artificial minds used make whole process of justice administration objective, progressively eliminating human bias in legal judgments. second, new values promoted exponential technological trend: book holds that, in near future, value of truth have increasing importance in advanced societies.

the 2 claims not uncontroversial, several speakers , critics pointed out during first presentations of volume in academic (sifa 2010) , transhumanist community (transvision 2010). promote informed debate on ethical , social issues of technological evolution, ilabs writes monthly contributions italian national magazines , blogs.