Contemplating Mortality: Personal AIs, Mind Melds, and Brain Preservation — Three Paths to Our Postbiological Selves

John Smart
25 min readSep 9, 2020

Note: This is one of my more speculative posts, about events I expect to occur in in last few decades of this amazing century. Nevertheless, it has implications today, so perhaps you’ll find it worth a skim. As always, let me know what you think, here or privately at john@foresightu.com. Thanks.

When we presently die, most of our unique self, including, for most of us, the majority of our unique experiences, ideas, values, goals, and…

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John Smart

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