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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

33. Transhuman Crypto Cloudminds

Author : Melanie Swan

Published in: The Transhumanism Handbook

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Considering the mutual benefits of blockchain and transhumanism, this essay proposes crypto cloudminds as a safe mechanism by which the human mind might transcend its unitary limitations by permissioning partial resources to join a multi-party mind (comprised of human and machine minds) in a cloud-based environment. Cloudminds could have diverse purposes including problem solving (addressing future-of-work issues with Maslow Smart Contracts), learning, experience, exploration, innovation, artistic expression, and other personal development activities. Crypto cloudminds could be multicurrency, operating with payment remuneration, security, and (especially) ideas as the denominations of measure. For thriving in the future, mind node peers could enter “Yes-and” Payment Channels with one another for collaborative idea development. For surviving in the future, good-player behavior could be game-theoretically enforced with the simultaneous privacy-transparency property of blockchains, together with the immutable peer-confirmed consensus algorithm and audit-log checks and balances system. Overall, blockchains might serve as an institutional technology that is the basis for treaties and progress in a multi-species society of human, algorithm, and machine, guiding the way to positive transhuman futures.

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Glossary
Blockchain (distributed ledger) Technology
A blockchain is an immutable, cryptographic (cryptography-based), distributed (peer-based), consensus-driven ledger. Blockchain (distributed ledger) technology is a software protocol for the instantaneous transfer of money and other forms of value (assets, contracts, public records, program states) globally via the internet.
Cloudmind
A cloudmind is a cloud-based collaboration of human and machine minds (with safeguards and permissions). “Mind” is generally denoting an entity with some capacity for processing, not the volitionary action and free will of a consciousness agent.
Crypto cloudminds
Crypto cloudminds is the idea of implementing cloudminds with the safeguards of blockchain technology.
Cryptoeconomics
Cryptoeconomics is an economic transaction paradigm based on cryptography; more specifically, an economic transaction system implemented in a cryptography-based software network, using cryptographic hashes (computational proof mechanisms) as a means of confirming and transferring monetary balances, assets, smart contracts, or other system states. A key concept is trustless trust, meaning removing as much human-based trust as possible to make the economic system trustworthy (relocating human-based trust to cryptography-based trust).
Cryptosecession
Cryptosecession is the idea of employing blockchains as an institutional technology to opt out of traditional governance and legal structures.
Deep Learning Chains
Deep learning chains are a class of smart network technologies in which other technologies, blockchain and deep learning, converge as a control technology for other smart network technologies. Deep learning chains have the properties of secure automation, audit-log tracking, and validated transaction execution of blockchain, and the object and pattern recognition technology (IDtech) of deep learning. Deep learning chains might be used to control other fleet-many internet-connected smart network technologies such as UAVs, autonomous driving fleets, medical nanorobots, and space-based asteroid mining machines.
Deep Learning Neural Networks
Deep learning neural networks are computer programs that can identify what an object is; more technically, deep learning is a branch of machine learning based on a set of algorithms that attempts to model high-level abstractions in data by using artificial neural network architectures, based on learning multiple levels of representation or abstraction, such that predictive guesses can be made about new data.
IDtech
IDtech is identification technology, the functionality of object recognition as an in-built feature in technology. IDtech is similar to FinTech, RegTech, TradeTech, and HealthTech; technologies that digitize, standardize, and automate operations within their respective domains.
Payment Channel
A payment channel is a contractually-obligated payment structure that elapses over time, protecting and obligating two parties who need not know and trust each other [42]. The payment channel operates in three steps. First, Party A opens a payment channel with Party B and posts a pre-paid escrow balance (the escrow deposit is broadcast to the blockchain, and a corresponding refund transaction for the same amount is signed by both parties, but not broadcast). Second, Party A consumes a resource (or provides a service such as programming hours) against the escrow balance, and activity is tracked and updated (in revised refund transactions that both parties sign but do not broadcast). Third, at the end of the period (or at any time), the cumulative activity is booked in one net transaction to close the contract. In addition to the FinTech innovation of parties not knowing each other being able to digitally contract in a protected manner over time, payment channels might also provide scalability to blockchains by only logging net transactions.
Smart Contract
A smart contract is a software program registered to a blockchain for confirmation (time-datestamping provenance), and possibly some form of automated execution. To be legally-binding as an eContract, smart contracts need to have the four elements of “regular” contracts: two parties, consideration, and terms.
Smart Networks
Smart networks are intelligent autonomously-operating networks. Exemplar smart network technologies include blockchain economic networks and deep learning pattern recognition neural networks.
Technophysics
Technophysics is the application of physics to the study of technology (by analogy to biophysics and econophysics), particularly using statistical physics, information theory, and model systems for the purpose of characterizing, monitoring, and controlling smart network systems in applications of arbitrarily-many fleet item management and system criticality detection.
Token Economy
The token economy is the situation in which web-based communities issue their own cryptotoken money supplies. The tokens serve as an accounting system for coordinating a local economy between members, a tracking system that can be used to link participative contributions with remuneration (solving the credit assignment problem). In Web 3.0, users expect to participate meaningfully in communities, meaning being remunerated for contributions, accessing resources, and voting on community decisions.
Web 3.0 (the crypto web)
Web 3.0 refers to the idea of cryptoeconomic business models such as data markets and computation markets running on the “internet’s new pipes” of distributed network systems, content-addressable file-serving, and IDtech. Web 1.0 (the static web) involved the transfer of static information and Web 2.0 (the social web) created the expectation that website users can interact, like, and engage with content and other users. In Web 3.0 (the crypto web), users expect to participate meaningfully in economic communities by being remunerated for contributions (such as software code, digital art, and forum posts), and by being able to vote on decisions and access resources.
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Metadata
Title
Transhuman Crypto Cloudminds
Author
Melanie Swan
Copyright Year
2019
Book
The Transhumanism Handbook

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-16919-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-16920-6

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16920-6_33

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