Analog

Continuous steps, where gaps are infinitely divisible, such as real numbers.

Android

Autonomous human-like device.

Artificial Intelligence

Machine possessing the ability to perform actions implying intelligence.

Automata

Self-operating machines.

Biological immortality

Perpetuating genes through continuity instead of replication.

Circular reasoning

See Circular reasoning.

Consciousness

See Continuity of.

Continuity of Consciousness

See Self.

Cryonics

Extending life by freezing those dying from disease until a cure is found.

Digital

Discreet steps, such as the gaps between whole numbers.

Digital Immortality

The selfplex perpetuated in a digital medium. (LF)

Information Valet

Helps users cope with information by a) knowing what is available, b) assisting you with access, and c) keeping track of your information interests and acquisitions. (LF)

Meme

1. An element of culture that may be considered to be passed on by a non-genetic means, esp. imitation. (OED) 2. Replicator for transmitting a unit of culture. (LF)

Memeplex

A system of memes united for mutual advantage. (SB)

Perpetuators

Humans extending life spans through biological immortality. (LF)

Robot

Device performing tasks planned by humans.

One-way immortality

Preserving and transmitting your ideas, i.e., communicating to the future. (GB)

Self

See Consciousness.

Selfplex

A memeplex functioning within a human. (SB)

Soul

Religious term expressing belief in an eternal self.

Soul Bank

Selfplexes digitally stored waiting for instantiation either as interactive entities of the online community (digital immortality), or as physical entities of the offline community (robots). (LF)

Two-way immortality

Allows the digital "you" (whole or part) to communicate with the future in the sense that artifact continues to learn and evolve, i.e., endless experience and learning. (GB)

Turing test

An attempt to determine indirectly whether a conversationalist is human or machine.

GB: Bell, Gordon and Gray, Jim. Digital Immortality March 2001, Communications of the ACM.

LF: Lee Frank

OED: Oxford English Dictionary

SB: Blackmore, Susan. The Meme Machine, Oxford University Press, 1999.