This is a capture of the Quantum Archaeology article. It was written in the language of the day (2013 C.E.) and was an argument to break open the idea to the public, who with the exception of cryonicists al accepted that Death was the end. Religions had never accepted that, but were in conflict with science. It was written when hyertext links were commonly inserted into articles I apologise for their inevitable defunctness and my own many bluinders in setting down the subject.
It may seem at first galnace, that Quantum Archaeology is in conflict with cryonics,. It is not. Our arch aim is the surivival of as many beings as possible. Nor is in conflict with Religion who had predcted resurrection for thousands of years, and some relgious groups have already embraced it.
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QUANTUM ARCHAEOLOGY
Tthe controversial science of resurrecting the dead.
"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
George Bernard Shaw
Micro Map of the past being created.
Quantum computers and new maths to calculate detailed histories and memories of everyone dead.
Face and body reconstructions a million years old already achieved: mind reconstructions coming.
106 billion people to be resurrected within 40 years.
A Child's Guide to Quantum Archaeology (300 words) <~ start here!!!
Short version (3,000 words)
The Quantum Archaeology Grid
Recursive Civilization
XYLEM
Turing Church Workshop Paper
The Lazarus Long Delusion
(c~) text copyrights waived (70,000+ words). Under construction. - Gathered from better minds at kurzweilai.net forums and longecity forums inter alia.. Bibliography to 2012 page 9. Parts of this paper have been published in the online journals turingchurch.com, transhumanity.net and immortallife.info.
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"...information is incapable of being destroyed - that is the deepest physics I know." Leonard Susskind.
INTRODUCTION
Quantum Archaeology is a prescience of resurrection of the dead using proces technologies due in 20-40 years.Organisms extinct for hundreds of millions of years have already been resurrected in evolutionary biology and historical information is now thought incapable of destruction.
It involves building the Quantum Archaeology Grid to plot all knowable events of the past, filling the gaps by cross-referencing heuristically, and deducing by the laws of science. Specialist grids already exist waiting to be merged, including cosmic ones with trillions of moving evolution points. The result will be a mega-matrix crisp enough to describe then simulate the past. Quantum computers and super-recursive algorithms, both in their infancy, may allow vast calculation into the quantum world, and artificial intelligence has no known upper limit. Baring catastrophe it is likely science and technology will resurrect the dead. QA is no way invalidates the need for cryonic suspension where data of the dead are preserved.
Quantum Archaeology (QA) was inspired by Russian born Asimov's psychohistory, written during the second world war and after Einstein - a committed determinist¬¬ - had astounded the world by showing Brownian motion was predictable, in 1905. Brownian motion was so complex it was assumed to be random and not amenable to the laws of physics. Einstein refused any such position and he is almost alone holding the quantum world too must be causal. This casual view of the cosmos includes decaying and cremated brains (and their information conversions as we unify the quantum and classical worlds) is gaining favour with some schools. Quantum computers expected to do near infinite calculations are already operating in what William James called parallel universes (1895) and together with artificial intelligence may revolutionize information retrieval.
Scientific resurrection was a forgotten idea of Fyodorov (1828—1903) and the Russian cosmist movement, chased to oblivion by a century of revolution. Awoken independently after the birth of the world wide web by Frank Tipler's response to cryonics, translations are easier and speculation about information recovery is increasing.+
A theory is emerging that the universe is a hologram^^^ - presumably formed by the infinite branes of M -Theory colliding causing big bang, light and limits. This universe may therefore be made of light, and the laws of light - whether that involves motion or not - and information is it's very core.
QA was forged in discussions on Kurzweilai.net, producing howls of protests as death had been thought an irreversible state, perhaps having special properties and the first attempt was kicked off wikipedia as 'original research' and 'not notable'. It will correct its doubtless many errors as it digs out its pasts with a myriad of forensic archaeology. Coming science may make today's lifeless archaeology seem quaint as we resurrect more living examples from the few we have already done.
It is a gold mine for the superdeterminist. It asserts a man is a mixture of events, existing solely by the laws of physics.> It is moot if those laws are classical, relativistic or quantum: the laws of nature exist and we must journey to find them. What matters is techniques to achieve our aims like survival and resurrection with knowledge of them in the scale sizes we need.
In the quantum realm statistics are used as mechanics. Man's component parts and patterns are swappable with identical ones by the principle of interchangeability. The composites are common to other men and other life forms and reduce commonly, to other biochemical and therefore other physical events. These may be configured theoretically by deduction, and experimentally by trial and error - but then constructed. They are also convertible to 'pure information' and need never be set back in three dimensions.
In an interactive system which the universe seems to be (although we wrestle with only 4% of it), things in one state are linked by immutable laws to things in all other states. QA's conjecture is the whole of any person's past is necessarily deducible from few starting points in the present, known variables, with enough cross-referenced calculation done in techniques like symbolic maths and hypercomputation, and the laws of science. From these starting points in spacetime, zillions of inevitable patterns are tested about a history until a correct description map is achieved. This is the principle of reversibility.>>>
The horror was the size of sums which people intuitively dismissed as too big for philosophy, too big for science, and too big to calculate.They are not too big to write down in symbols! Inventor of set theory, Cantor, into arithmetic, postulated transfinite numbers with aleph orders of infinities. Predictive analytics may suggest a time when he will be revived. Mathematics now calculates infinite complexities - something seen as magic to the layman, using Cantorian set theory as the basis of computing, and describing infinite universes bubbled off infinite cosmic membranes in infinite multiverses.
Data is not random but in discoverable groups and shapes that cross-reference and repeat. One can make shortcuts and confident retrodictions in space-time despite few events surviving.
The maths challenge is like solving cryptologic, with which Rejewski, successfully reverse-engineered Scherbius' genius enigma machine using the theory of permutations and groups. Rejewski found correct scrambles from 150,000,000,000,000,000,000 combinations, allowing mathematicians to break encrypted messages in wartime. The statistics of complex systems through time can draw on work in dynamics - like quantum turbulence, and we need a mathematics profoundly beyond the thoughts of linear men.
It is the size of sums that is dazzling.
This is the mega problem resurrection and all deep archaeology faces. You could satisfy resurrection deriving all possible peoples, by simple permutes of all possible events. That vast calculation would include a map for resurrecting everyone who could have lived - then resurrect them all with coming robotics! But quantum archaeology is going to use innovative number elimination rules, natural deduction, proof calculus, algorithmic probability and event histories to reduce these near infinite histories to the correct ones in the linear history that we know, and raise everyone with all their memories intact (something none of us have today).
The reductions factor surprisingly quickly. Elimination wipes whole wads of equations and slices through majorities of calculations as impossible like panning for gold. Most of the date available is mud and thrown away by mathematics. The sums are still too big to do manually and computing will need to be many orders of magnitude better for success. But even without step-change, the technology is coming along trajectories that have held for decades, and there is no reason to suppose that two human generations will not be enough.
There are many objections to quantum archaeology, but these are mainly because it is just beginning and as a research area still has many unknowns. Some assumptions will turn out to be false, but the basic premise - that you can assemble the past from few things in the present using the laws of physics - looks unshakable.
It is important enough to be a separate research field: 'if there weren't many unknowns it wouldn't need to be researched'. We can calculate what is coming by trending and looking at prototyping as well as what innovative academic papers and futurist groups discuss.
Computational archaeology, linguistics, semiotics (it is possible to see the whole world as signs and symbols) and other disciplines build increasingly sophisticated maps of events good enough to construct growing parts of the past, and every failure is an opportunity for invention.
Incremental improvements are likely to produce maps good enough to run simulations past the 5 nanometres thought needed to plot individual brains (quantum levels are generally under 100 nm) - for any time in history. When that happens machine technology small enough for physical resurrection is likely to have arrived, and routine revivals become a branch of medicine. Accelerating progress must lead generally to resurrection of the dead, or we will have failed to master very small numbers.
But it can also be specifically attempted. Quantum archaeology is drafted like Laplace's demon, as retrodiction science, back-calculating events that must have been from those known in the present, deducing patiently by the laws of physics from probabilistic reductions. Masses of the work can be done in classical physics in which human consciousness seems to reside and it may be that there is only one physics. However Quantum Archaeology accommodates the quantum (statistical) theory, which modifies classical physics in the world of the very small - just as Relativity modified Newtonian physics for the world of the very big. We are learning to manipulate quanta, and the effects must be unprecedented invention. In 2010 the first quantum machine was built.¬
The unleashing technology will be fantastic. Things thought impossible will be done routinely and things beyond imagination will be built enabling and accelerating one another to more counter-intuitive constructions. More than a trillion trillion trillion machines each more complex than anything man-made today, will fit inside the atom, and these intelligent invisibles will construct smaller, cleverer machines to achieve even more astonishing science as we head into superstring physics and enter other universes with different laws.
For resurrection of the dead we need not advance that much. Relevant sizes are mostly between one atom and one metre for the body and brain. This, coupled to simulable descriptions of local environment, are everything possible in a human mind. Nothing is irrelevant, nothing is left to chance, and nothing happens by spooky forces. We will denoue the mysterious by the discovering relevant laws of natural philosophy. No man is outside nature, and his most private thoughts are solely products of determinable biology, environment and the laws of physics. Memory is caused by body modification to internal and environmental stimuli. All will be revealed by patient analysis and detailed cross-referencing from myriad starting points in histories preserved in the Records.
THE ARGUMENT
Quantum archaeology anticipates fast advances in charting detailed event maps that are faithful and repeatable.
Information gaps may be overcome by studying huge numbers of common timelines, filling in the blanks by eliminating the impossible and recording whatever remains as a fact. We are already doing this with present and historical reconstructions.
The worst case scenario for quantum archaeology is that we plot and resurrect every possible person who has ever lived but have no idea which are the 'real' ones. This is extremely unlikely because the science of probability will eliminate impossible timelines, and in theory, the entire universe may be charted as a moving, reversible system, on computers that already have more variables than all stars and planets combined, as we learn the laws.
It doesn't matter whether the universe is purely causal, or operates by some other sets of laws at quantum levels. Where there are laws, there we can do prediction and retrodiction. There is a hundred year old conflict between the large and the small in physics. These 2 quotations highlight it:
"I think that matter must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is, an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it." Albert Einstein, originator of Relativity.
"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter." Max Planck, originator of Quantum Theory.
We could side step the fundamentals of quantum explanation in favour of 'What can we do?' 'What can we achieve?' In the case the physical universe cant be reversed, at least archaeology can calculate causally and probabilistically what parts of it necessarily were in theory, for there are limits to the size of what is needed, and retrodiction may be so demonstrably accurate as to assert we have mapped the essence of any person including thoughts known solely to him.
Size doesn't affect the idea, nor does distance to history (the same thing), which assumes only that the world operates by laws, we can state enough of them at our size limits, and can back-calculate necessary events down to the relevant scale of human memory. This comes easily to futurists who are used to predictive and statistical inference calculations since Babbage forced the world's ruling elite through the rigours of the Royal Statistical Society once world peace had freed vast monies from the battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Using axiomatic logic and basic number theory, QA will draft a detailed, expanding four dimensional (moving) graph of history called the Quantum Archaeology Grid, anticipating hypercomputing, synthesis of data banks, and clever, vastly superior ways of manipulating super-recursive algorithms (which may out-perform even quantum computers). We will reach 1 exaflop (a quadrillion floating-point calculations per second) of data manipulation on classical supercomputers, passing what is thought to be one human brain capacity in 2018-22, but it's nothing to what's coming.
Mathematics means you dont need brute calculation. Symbolic abstraction computes pretty well anything knowable. Mathematics is just number short-cuts. Human memories are generally isometric. Although all neurons are unique they have evolved inevitably, and if you have calculated the environment and the biology like DNA at any time on the evolution tree, you are more than half way to describing the dead person. Memory reconstruction is repetition, reaction and environmental permutation, reduced by ascertainable and specific geographical location. The neocortex itself has only 300 million pattern recognition modules, of 100 neurons per module (How to Create a Mind Ray Kurzweil 2012). Human memory is not random but flows like rivers down the paths of least resistance, obeying the body's hormonal goals to sensory input from given or calculable environments. The acceleration of science is forcing it's method as processual archaeology.
Reconstructions might start with a prototype human. Maps would be linked by the laws of physics to other maps a moment later. Dynamic and inevitable map trajectories would be plotted. Over them would be imposed maps from complex databases, personalizing what the person must have been like, at first generally, then in such detail he would be indistinguishable from the real thing. At that point they would be maps of the real thing! Just as RNA copies new cells in your body constantly, a copy of any deceased person would actually be them (Tipler's and Ettinger's objections to this are stated later). All their thoughts, everything that made them them would be present, set in equations, algorithms and countless sums - and therefore backed-up. A reconfigured humanbeing would necessarily hold descriptions in his brain of his tribal environment to help reconfigure others, and these can be simultaneously commenced in the present to describe the past as interaction.
This is living reconstruction.
Each piece of the quantum archaeology enables new pieces. But this wont be done at the rate of people on digs or in labs, but on intelligent machines working near light speed and with errors of much less than the one in a million which is today's state of the art in DNA sequencing. Error checking of complex systems is integral to mathematics' architecture and is well advanced.
Zillions of modifications by speeding computers configuring local data in classical and quantum physics would perfect chronicles and representations into finely detailed snapshots from conception to death.
At that point a license to resurrect might be granted by the medical council. Then microrobots would begin reconstruction.
Things in local areas like books, or an internet which may be a large interactive book, are information node densities - clustering coefficients affecting other information pathways and other nodes, like heavy stars affecting gravity distribution in a universe. As we master large and quantum gravity, these may weight in so accurately it could be impossible for a single moment to escape statistical denouement. We advance like a climbing spider, one success builds conditions for the next, until the grid is weaved and history exact not fanciful, has delivered the magnificent from the mysterious.
This is archaeology rising. Quantum means 'the minimum amount of an entity'. Archaeology: 'the recovery and analysis of human data'. Thus quantum archaeology is the recovery and analysis of the minimum amounts of data needed to describe anything human in history, including human brain cells and even private human events and thoughts. They are plotted as event points on the general quantum archaeology grid.
The points plotted are fixed relatively, but they have pasts and futures, forward and aft, and adjacencies. Together they give moving charts of a man's life and memories. His whole body is not more than 1.8 X 10^27 molecules with its 7 X 10^27 atoms. Tipler has guessed the data for all possible finite universes like ours would be no more than 10^ X 10^ X 123 bytes. Although these are vast numbers they are not infinite and size of calculations should be set aside when pondering the viability of quantum archaeology, for it is reasonable to assume maths in the future will get better, and we already have symbolism and similarity shortcuts to reduce it.
It is easier than it first seems. The bulk of calculation is repetition, and early cosmology techniques enable seed programmes. No seed simulations have resulted in life, but the computing power has not been enough for brute force permutation yet; calculations are increasing as multiples of Moore's Law and the advance of number equations.
Mathematics by arduous minds torturing the edge of abstraction will surely yield to greater intelligence amplification in machines. How fast the big calculators arrive is more than guesswork as constant trajectories have been watched for 50 years, and astonishing leaps have also peppered history. By numbers of actioned patents, discoveries are speeding.
QA posits recovery and reconstruction of sufficient data to calculate the details of anyone dead - including their memories - to prepare a map of them - for technologies like microrobots to build to order when those arrive after the 2020's.
Quantum robots are a form of micro robot based on Feynman's idea, by Paul Benioff in 1982. David Deutsch at Oxford pioneered quantum computation to successfully push the science and it is now a major research industry.
Coming technologies like 3D printing seem to have no scale limits and may eventually be used routinely at quantum levels, nor be restricted to three dimensions. Non-living events, aeons past, and people who are events called 'living', are expected to be resurrected to full functionality, and general ones (of genres) have already been achieved. It is thought we will be able to resurrect a non-specific tribe of Neanderthals since completing their DNA in 2012. This is not yet a specific brain but it is easier to see that this may become possible as archaeology unearths the past by probability and causation to levels that seemed impossible one generation of 20 years ago.
Given enough machine complexity, future people may find simulating this universe is easy on a personal computer- including all its peoples to date. Despite our egos screaming otherwise, these resurrectees must be indistinguishable from the real thing under Ettinger's maxims of identity. Once the quantum archaeological grid is drawn, any number of a specific dead person could be manufactured, a complete simulation of their consciousness from conception to death written down or run as a computer program, and would be demonstrably authentic at the point of revival.
If you have any doubt about this, define what a given human being is. When a simulation meets all your criterea, the reconstruction must logically be accepted by you as the real thing. The issue of identity is dealt with later on.
There are huge and growing record bases that can help, some reaching back millions of years. As we reconstruct given histories they provide a platform to go back further, since each human mind is a library.
The processing power is already here for the surface work, the mathematics already in place, but sufficient technology not expected for 20-40 years. That is a wide time-frame in accelerating technology. The problems of resurrecting over 106 billion dead people since 50,000 B.C.E. into the modern world may look ridiculous, but in a few decades what is possible will have multiplied by many factors, and the world into which the dead shall rise will have possibilities and technologies not even thought of today. As to housing, the universe is full of space, and dimension distortion in your own apartment may come. Some people say they dont want to be resurrected but this is the Lazarus Long Delusion explained later. When people cite possible problems after resurrecting, the essential idea has been understood and scientists should begin the work.
We are attempting to label all things manufactured by men as the Internet of Things which is slowly covering the globe. Bar codes are being put on items by description, and those descriptions may become specific enough to re-engineer any of them - including moving ones as 3D printers move into the home and connect to the internet. Things are progressively built by machine systems planning and designing them; which forces innovative mathematics and startlingly good model-driven software. At some stage voice commands to a portable device will be enough for most things to be assembled in front of you at speed from the dust in the air (Hans Moravac), and objects once of great value will become disposable and recyclable. The wave may bring excellence enough in high technology for the manipulation of quantum archaeological data. Demand may get program makers to have ancient artefacts and people available to download as programs to your home assembler, subject only to payment and legality. If this seems science fantasy, it is, on the contrary science fiction ie it has to comply with the laws of science. Science Fiction makes predictive models of the future, usually incorporating a storyline. Precursors are already being used and computing power is the main thing holding it back.
This paper highlights the accelerating progress of technologies and sciences, not only in archaeology and reconstructing the past, but generally, with advances like self-driving cars, printed body parts, quantum teleportation (transporting over distance, now done routinely in labs) and invisibility cloaks.
THE OBJECTIONS
The three main objections to it, and their possible defeats are briefly:
1. Information is irrecoverably lost or there's too much of it to make sense:
- defeat: - archaeology recovers information and with accelerating capacity. QA is not attempting infinite recovery, but between the atom and the body, generally. One quantum computer is expected do more than all classical computers combined. All possible deceased's memories could be calculated initially, and QA will reduce these to the few then the one by probability and causation. Ettinger (cryonically suspended) nearing ninety thought there might be a Law of Conservation of Information and nothing is lost in the universe, though his search hadn't found it. Leonard Susskind, an originator of string theory states "information is incapable of being destroyed - that is the deepest physics I know" ^^^ (and Stephen Hawking conceded that information cannot be destroyed).
2. Entropy says the universe is not reversible therefore no local part of the universe is reversible. When brains decay, part of their descriptions are lost as thermodynamic heat and there is no known way of retracing it.>>>
- defeat - M Theory implies other universes: energy for reversal can be created or siphoned from them; local parts may therefore be reconfigurable because there will be enough energy to do it. The entire universe is debated as a simulation. If so, the universe is logically reversible and the burgeoning numbers of events in the present all trace to similar histories in the past: they are like branches of trees tracing to common trunks. They are not unit events but classes, with reversible laws with limits.
Further, QA isn't relying on total information reconstruction from surviving fragments but the construction of the quantum archaeology grid which sources events before, after and adjacent to a given person's timeline. It works by logical reconfigurations, using both causality and probability. It isn't seeking the actual particle that made the deceased's brain, but multi-time pathways that made those particular brains inevitable, so seeks to produce a complete enough description of the past.
3. Quantum Theory proves Cause & Effect are obsolete so we'll never know the past.*
- defeat - "No-one understands the Quantum Theory." (Richard Feynman).
There isn't anything to add to this! However to engage in debate - Feyman's statement is still true: a challenge to Quantum Archaeology from Quantum Theory cannot succeed since it is argumentum ad ignorantiam, - argument from ignorance. We dont know what is happening in the quantum world because we cannot observe it yet. To throw out Galileo's hard-won first maxim ("Observation then explanation.") looks foolhardy, and QT's success is from statistics not physics.> "What can be said can be said clearly." Wittgenstein: Tractatus 4.116. Einstein's attacked Quantum Theory's explanations of what was happening in the world of the very small and predicted Causation would be reinstated. Superdeterminists also posit this.
It seems generally agreed there are laws in the quantum and where there are laws prediction has always followed.
Many scholars seem horrified at the size of calculations in quantum mechanics, but it can be shown the amount we can sum grows on a trajectory; thus at some stage we will be able to calculate enough.
Quantum Archaeology does not need to go quantumly small scale to complete its grid, and most quantum theory may be irrelevant to it: 5 nanometres is the smallest relevant size. Where laws exist, prediction and retrodiction are thought possible and even in Quantum Theory the world works by laws. Geometrical lines of intersection will be constructed probabilistically, proving events from the records and this has already been done past 100 million years.
Additionally, the world can be described as a purely cause and effect system using the Many Worlds Interpretation¬¬ and Einstein who could be called a superdeterminist, might be right: causality underpins all nature. Brilliant probability science giving astoundingly good statistical predictions is a triumph for probability science not a refutation of determinism. MWI dismisses probability cloud observer collapses by quantum decoherence. Even allowing quantum probability alone, closed and unobserved quantum systems are demonstrated to be both predictable and reversible. (See also 2012 Nobel Physics Prize"for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems"). Debate rages about how to capture the laws of the quantum realm, and camps traditionally oppose each other, some believing causation, existing, too complex and too quick for mankind. Nature has had infinite time for infinitely deep complexity predating our universe. Einstein was more hopeful of finding a way and dismissed quantum theory as a lack of perspective. Quantum Theory and Relativity contradict each other: they cant both be right, and Relativity is both observable and proven correct.
As the quantum realm has yet to be thrashed out, this paper will argue the limits of science: that deceased Man is built by and therefore retrievable by its absolute laws: no-one and nothing may exist outside them. It will also attempt to argue that extropian resurrection is a greater, more powerful philosophy than the brute will of the Nietzschean, Nazis and Marxist schools - all preemptive misreadings of Darwin which never dwelt on philosophy - and QA must inevitably lead to recursive civilization on rising Kardashevian scales. Intelligence demonstrably outperforms breeding and is leading to sentient ascendency though </sp