About LifeNaut.com

LifeNaut.com is a web-based storage space for organizing and preserving critical information about one’s unique and essential characteristics for the future, and to share with friends and relatives in the present.

LifeNaut.com is funded by the Terasem Movement Foundation, Inc. The long-term goal is to test whether given a comprehensive database, saturated with the most relevant aspects of an individual’s personality, future intelligent software will be able to replicate an individual’s consciousness.

So, perhaps in the next 20 or 30 years the technology will be developed to upload these files, together with the futuristic software into a body of some sort - perhaps cellular, perhaps holographic, perhaps robotic.

Sound far-fetched?

Technology is evolving faster than we realize-- just 21 years ago the first personal computer was invented. Today many of us consider email and Google to be daily parts of life as we know it. Artificial Intelligence research is now a booming industry and most universities offer degrees in AI Engineering. Machine Consciousness research is a rapidly growing subset of AI . . . who knows what the future will bring?

What if the experiment doesn’t work?

If future intelligent software is NOT able to replicate this individual’s consciousness, then all of the hard work that the individual put into creating the mindfile was not wasted. All of the information about that individual-- thousands of lines of free flowing and guided conversations, personality test results, the array of uploaded file types articulately tagged with descriptions, dates, locations etc. etc. has been stored in a non-degradable (digital) form.

Secure storage - Files backed up daily in 3 locations

This unique digital archive could potentially live on forever and be accessible to people for generations and generations to come. The LifeNaut.com database is backed up daily in 3 different locations around the world and in 2 different media types. As new digital storage media develop with greater longevity and stability, lifenaut.com will adopt these new technologies.

Our Goals

The short term (5 year) goal of the LifeNaut Project is to provide an engaging, entertaining, and socially interactive environment in which volunteers like yourself can saturate your personal database, your mindfile. For most people we expect that this process will take years. So while the website itself may seem like a fun file storage venue with a futuristic twist, the site itself is really just the tip of the iceberg-- the point of access to a very carefully thought out and constructed database and suite of software applications.

Currently we have over 9,000 registered users.

What is the Terasem Movement Foundation (TMF)?

The Terasem Movement Foundation Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit private operating foundation which was founded in 2004 and is based in Vermont, USA. Learn More...