The most valuable part of you is your mind.

That should be obvious, because you live inside the world that you perceive and create in your mind.

How can you protect that valuable information in your mind, as well as its correct function?

Efforts such as SENS, Halcyon and others are commendable, but in the end if you want to protect information agains loss then the best thing you can do is access that information, copy it, back it up many times and keep moving it to the best hardware available.

This is what we do with the information we create. It stands to reason that if only we are able to access and interpret the mind, we would do the same there.

This is also our way to keep up with the gains that machine intelligence can make.

How?

The brain implements the mind. It is a complex machine built in wetware.

In principle, in fact, according to the Church-Turing thesis, the functions of any such machine can be reimplemented or emulated by another machine built on some other substrate.

This is why the process of copying the information and operation of the mind is called making substrate-independent minds.

That is the description of the ultimate goal of total access and total interpretability.

On the way there, there are many partial solutions that are feasible on shorter time-scales.

The Purpose of the Organization

Carboncopies is an action-oriented organization aimed at Advancing Substrate-Independent Minds (ASIM).

We don't pretend to know the full paths there at this time, so we are technology-agnostic.

We do believe that we can inform about fundamental principles, outline possible directions and maintain roadmaps.

We also see the need to connect the relevant work carried out in many disciplines by creating and sustaining a network of people.

We regard the requirements of this long-term task as a large puzzle. Many of the puzzle-pieces are already receiving attention in mainstream endeavours.

Some key pieces are not receiving the attention they need, and we then aim to highlight those and find resources for them.

Socially

We believe that giving persons substrate-independence opens up a world in which many different types of environments and resources become of interest, thereby diversifying and improving both personal and societal survival.

We also believe that enhancing the mind, initially through BCI, later through total access, will provide the greatest leap in our evolution.

Recent Progress

We built a network that consists of a core of dedicated scientists in multiple fields, plus regular contacts with top neuroscientists, computer scientists, press, and many more.

Carboncopies has in the first few months of its existence hosted 12 different events, a satellite conference to the Singularity Summit, and gained a regular ASIM following, among them 164 members of our Facebook group.

We have a recognizable brand and are embarking on project ties.

This is the time to invest in an organization that puts the puzzle together and moves from technology agnostic roadmaps to a true understanding of best technology paths. We can now imagine feasible technologies for ASIM.

This is the time when a little bit of direction results in a profound orientation of the field.