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Dedicated to My

Alma Mater
Transhumanism in the Metaverse

Presented By:
Sandeep Keshary Singh
Regdno:0301227264
8th Sem Computer Sc. And Engg
Transhumanism

• It’s a term often used as a synonym for human enhancement

• It is an international, intellectual and cultural movement


supporting the use of new sciences and technologies to enhance
human mental and physical abilities and aptitudes.

• Possible dangers, as well as benefits, of powerful new


technologies that might radically change the conditions of
human life are also of concern

• Trans-humanist predict that human beings will eventually be


transformed into beings with much greatly expanded abilities.
Technologies of Interest

The emergence and convergence of technologies such as


nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and
cognitive science (NBIC) and hypothetical future
technologies such as simulated reality, artificial intelligence,
mind uploading and cryonics believe that humans can and
should use these technologies to become more than humans,
i.e. Transhumans
Technological Highlights

Mind Uploading: It refers to the hypothetical transfer of a human


mind to an artificial substrate, such as a detailed computer
simulation of an individual human brain
Cryonics: Is the low-temperature preservation of humans that can
no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine.
Simulated reality: Is the proposition that reality could be
simulated—often Computer simulated to a degree
indistinguishable from 'true' reality. It could contain conscious
minds which may or may not know that they are living inside a
simulation. In its strongest form, the “simulation hypothesis”
claims we actually are living in such a simulation.
Metaverse

• The Metaverse is a fictional virtual world, where humans,


as avatars interact with each other and software agents, in a
3D space that uses the metaphor of the real world. The word
Metaverse is a compound of the words “meta" and “universe".
• The Metaverse appears to its users as an urban environment.
• Users of the Metaverse gain access to it through personal
terminals that project a high-quality virtual reality display
onto goggles worn by the user, or from low-quality public
terminals in booths
Transhumanism in the Metaverse -
Why?
The Metaverse provides an ideal meeting space and workspace
for the non-local, geographically distributed worldwide, scattered
community of transhumanists

The Metaverse provides an ideal training and “edutainment”


environment for futurists and students of advanced NBIC
technologies

And last but not least:

The Metaverse is where we may well spend the rest of our very
long lives
What is the Metaverse anyway?

• Metaverse is a high definition 3D digital virtual world where users,


represented by their avatars can meet and interact just like they do in
the physical world. Instead of building websites like in today's
Internet, Metaverse developers build fully 3D virtual spaces (scapes)
which can closely mimic the physical world, or be as different from
the "real world" as the imagination of the developers permits. For
example, in the Metaverse you can visit an accurate replica of a real
city, a future imaginary space settlement on Mars, a microscale
world where you can see individuel molecules and cells, etc.

• The term Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) is used


more and more frequently. I still prefer Metaverse because it is not
always a game.
Why is 3D better?
• 3D is a much better user interface. This is not surprising: while we
have been working with documents for only a few hundreds of years,
we have evolved fast responses to the real 3D universe, like running
from predators and hunting prey, for hundreds of thousands of years.
Now that technology permits doing so, 3D VR will become the
preferred online interface for users with powerful PCs and enough
bandwidth.

• More and more users do not consider virtual worlds as a means to


escape real life but, on the contrary, as useful means to complement
and enhance real life and enabling technologies to support "real-
world" social, educational and business activities.

• Those who have participated in voice-enabled events in a modern


virtual world know that the feeling of being there, meeting other
people and talking to them, is much more pronounced than with IRC
chat, phone or video meetings .
Real virtual communities
• Users of a modern MMOG where the sensation of being there is
above a certain threshold can form real virtual communities, much
tighter than today's social networks and virtual communities.

• I am persuaded that the establishment of tight global, trans-national


virtual communities, held together by a common worldview rather
than by geography, will do a lot of good to the world.

• VR is an enabling technology for the emergence of planetary (and


beyond), global, trans-national communities of reasonable persons
for a better world. For this I cannot think of a better slogan than
"Avatars of the World, Unite!".

Meeting in a
Virtual
environment.
Examples of Metaverses and MMOGS

Second-Life

Entropia Universe

Red Light Center


Works in the Meta-verse

• VR meeting point and


workspace for transhumanists.

• Presentations and meetings


with IRC gateway and voice
chat

• “Being There” in VR can unite


transhumanists separated by
geography

• Worldwide transhumanist
social network in VR
• Mixed-reality events

• Museum of
transhumanist art and
film

• Presentations, distance
education

• Avatars of the World,


Unite!
Living forever in the Metaverse

• The Metaverse is where we may well spend the rest


of our very long lives

• Mind uploading:

• making a complete copy of the important


information contained in the brain

• storing the copy (mind file) on suitable media

• uploading and "running" the copy on a new support


different from the original biological brain.
Humans in Virtual Reality
Eternity in the Metaverse
• Some persons will feel no
permanent need for a physical
body and migrate their
consciousness to virtual reality.

• A computational consciousness is
something that you can cut, paste,
edit, backup, and reload from
backup as needed.

• So this is practical immortality:


Neverdie.
Thanking You

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