5.28.2017

Martine Rothblatt : My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality


Martine Rothblatt : My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality (script)
Summary
The speaker published his thesis in his book of which the title was "The Apartheid of Sex". It shockingly says that a gender has fluidity. Racism is real though race is fiction and male or female gender is constructed fiction. People have to choose either because of society forces. Genitals don't determine your gender or sexual identity. It's the structure of the human body and reproductive tracts. He changes his gender sometimes.
He works with satellite though he stars a nonprofit foundation to collect a fund for medical research and to help his daughter. It's because she was diagnosed to have a rare fatal disease that is said to definitely kill its patients by her doctor.
However, he studies her illness and looks for her medicine.
Although the medicine he found was just piece of powder for a rat that is said not to be able to turn into a medicine for people, by his research, it's turned to the great medicine for two years. It could help not only his daughter but also other many people who have the same illness as her and it currently produces a big benefit. She now helps his company that will cure more people by transplantable lungs.
He is, now,  working to develop a new software which can revive the consciousness. First, a mind file which is a place on the internet to collect your mannerisms, personality, recollection, feeling, beliefs and values, is created. And then, after couple decades, it can be recapitulated by a software.
If a robot has the software, the robot can do anything like you forever. He showed the robot that version is his wife to us.
This is his new research that leads to the quest for immortality.
Words in this story
prediction / estimation, forecast
consciousness / senses
doppelganger / offshoot, an apparition or double of a living person.

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