We take on projects that provide the biggest impacts to indefinite life with the resources we have. We have many projects in store that we will be working to bring into reality. All these projects stem from the pursuit we have decided is most meaningful to us: indefinite life.
These projects are grouped into stages. These stages are taken from the book The Importance of Existence.
"1. Philosophy: A spark was all it took; we ignited our vision for the future with the simplest of questions. But to ask the question in the right way was not so simple; that took the correct set of circumstances (for which we were eternally grateful). We simply pondered what we would do with unlimited time. Our answer was that it was such a tragedy our limited lives wouldn’t get to learn nearly as much as we wanted. The resultant question then became apparent: how could we aid the survival of individuals and the collective? Thus began our quest, a quest espoused through a handbook to chart the course for all our newly chartered minds to the cause."
(The Importance of Existence, p. 89)
"2. Research: With our newfound dreams to pursue, we spent the next period learning about our brains and minds to determine whether there was any way we could possibly live indefinitely. We set upon the idea that, in theory, we could transfer our minds to silicon hardware to make it easier for us to engineer our way around death (such as through avoiding biological senescence: death by manufactured obsolescence)."
(The Importance of Existence, p. 89)
"3. Prototype: Thoroughly convinced our prospective path was potentially possible, we set off to deduce whether we could build silicon-based brains. It took a lot of experimenting to figure out what we were doing and to figure out what we needed to be doing, but we eventually constructed brain hardware capable of facilitating human-level minds."
(The Importance of Existence, p. 89)
"4. Development: With silicon brain technology unlocked, we hunted and prodded for ways to transfer our minds from the biological human hardware to the silicon brain hardware. Through incremental testing and validating, in time, we were able to satisfactorily develop a mind transfer procedure."
(The Importance of Existence, p. 90)
"5. Deployment: Once developed, we scaled our operations to deploy the mind transfer technology and procedure to all humans who wished to undergo the transformation and join in on the exploration of indefinite life."
(The Importance of Existence, p. 90)
"6. Improvement: As more and more humans went silicon, we all contributed to the improvement of our minds and bodies. Our minds now had access to control any compatible hardware directly as if it was our own body. This eruption of possibilities was exciting and liberating for many of us, but it also brought a fear of the unknown and unfamiliar to those who remained as biological humans."
(The Importance of Existence, p. 90)
"7. Research: Though we planned to leave Earth anyway, the fear held by the biological humans led to our need to accelerate the process of spaceship and society design beyond Earth. This period was marked with a tumultuous sequence of endeavors and expositions."
(The Importance of Existence, p. 90)
"8. Colonization: While many great advancements were made along the way to this era, the tensions were high between the silicon and biological beings, so we couldn’t be happier than to settle into the rest of the Solar System beyond Earth. We had made it out nearly fully intact. In this period, we established ourselves as builders through spaceship design and though the enactment of our societal visions."
(The Importance of Existence, p. 90)
"9. Exploration: For various reasons, we once again needed to move beyond our home. This time we would be leaving the Solar System. Our tools and technologies were equipped for self-sufficiency out in the vast and inhospitable galaxy. We turned our eyes to the stars and set off for the nearest ones to mark a new wave of exploration for humanity. There were so many interesting things out there to uncover; the Milky Way Galaxy was our metaphorical Oyster Nebula: opportunities abound for those who endeavored (just as Earth once was for its own era of explorers)."
(The Importance of Existence, p. 90)
"10. Building and Experimenting: After a considerable amount of time, we settled into our rhythms to begin fully applying the knowledge from our explorations toward furthering our goals. We built immense tools and elaborate experiments to deeply probe the universe for clues that would help confirm or debunk whatever knowledge we thought we had gained. In biological human terms, this roughly equated to the Earthly builders who were alive in the few eras preceding the lives of all us biological-to-silicon beings."
(The Importance of Existence, p. 91)
"11. Research: Having come to deeply understand our situation in existence, we used our solidified knowledge to very clearly and deliberately craft the roadmaps we wanted to follow forward in the continued pursuit of indefinite life. This roughly equated to the Earth-human era of people alive during our biological-to-silicon emergence."
(The Importance of Existence, p. 91)
"12. Refinement: The path from here to the end was strewn with our continued exertions to innovate and eke out higher survival chances. With our boots firmly on the ground, this epoch became our stomping ground, an unfettered battleground where we would never settle for any semblance of a middle ground. We claimed this era as our high ground in the quest to break new ground for life, where the ground rules were unrestricted and the only limiting factor was our ability to remain grounded in reality and stand our ground in the face of impending entropic nothingness."
(The Importance of Existence, p. 91)
