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concepts(11)
A new home for humans in the next dimension
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Every thread on this map ends in the same place: a new home for humans, somewhere we were not born, in a way of living we have not yet reached. We get there by carrying people to another star, by building in space at the scale of a star's light, by carrying a person's mind into a body they were not born in, and by computing with quantum states — and by whatever further threads the map finds on the way.
Build in space at a scale that gathers a star's light
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Assemble structures around a star large enough to catch a meaningful share of its light and turn it into power and living room. Nobody lifts such a thing from a planet; it must be made from what is already in space, by machines that make more machines.
Carry a person's mind into a body they were not born in
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Let a person continue — memories, character, the sense of being themselves — in an advanced robot body, and be recognised by the people who know them as the same person. Whether this is possible is still an open question, and the map says so.
Carry people to another star and have them arrive alive
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Leave the solar system with a crew and reach a world around another star, with the people on board alive, healthy and still free to choose. Most of the journey is time: the ship must be a home for longer than a working life, not a vehicle.
Compute with quantum states at a scale that answers what classical machines cannot
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Run computations that use quantum states as the working material, reliably enough and long enough to answer questions in chemistry, materials and optimisation that no classical machine can. The other three destinations lean on this one for their hardest design problems.
Develop a theoretical framework for consciousness
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Establish a theoretical approach to exploring how consciousness arises. This foundational framework is critical for further studies on consciousness transfer and emulation.
Understand consciousness
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Investigate the nature of consciousness and how it emerges from neural structures. Understanding what consciousness is and how it can be recreated in another medium is fundamental.
Understand material behavior in space
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Study how different materials behave in the harsh conditions of space. Insights are crucial for selecting the right materials for building and maintaining space structures.
What must exist between Develop a theoretical framework for consciousness and Understand consciousness?
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What must exist here is not yet known. Even a marker that reliably predicts conscious states does not explain why that pattern of matter and activity is accompanied by subjective experience at all.
What must exist between Test proposed consciousness markers against real brain and behavior data and What must exist between Develop a theoretical framework for consciousness and Understand consciousn
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What must exist here is not yet known. Even a theory whose markers predict conscious states with high fidelity may only describe correlation, not explanation.
What must exist between Understand consciousness and Ensure identity continuity?
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Beyond general consciousness, researchers must find which specific patterns, memories, and structures constitute a given person's individual identity rather than consciousness in general. This is not yet known and requires learning which features of a brain's activity and structure are load-bearing for selfhood versus incidental.
documents(11)
Behavior ABI
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Locator & Resolution
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Passport
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Presence Topology
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Presence Wire
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The Lighthouse (the paper)
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The Wheel of 364
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Thread Conformance Suite
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Thread Markup
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Thread Protocol Overview
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World Manifest
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items(17)
Alchemist's Residue
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Bloodhound Hackle
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Dread Marrow
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Everknight Cinder
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Everknight Clod
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Everknight Tear
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Godshard
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Gravewax
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Houndfang
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Invader's Sigil
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Mimic Splinter
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Momma's Eye
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Quaking Gel
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Sayonara Ribbon
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Tarnished Cog
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Tastarium
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A media recommendation and backlog tracker for games, movies, books, music, anime, manga, comics, podcasts, and board games within the Pixygon universe.
Toaster Carapace
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species(15)
Armaturus
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A walking bulwark plated in its own grown armor. Nothing about it is fast — but very little gets through, and it has all the time in the world.
Buonic
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A restless cousin to the Golgon line, lighter and quicker on its feet — but bearing the same old stone-born strike.
Carrotto
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A root-thing that grew legs and opinions. Absurdly hardy for a vegetable, it digs in and simply refuses to fall.
Crabber
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A hard-shelled scuttler of the shallows. Slow and unbothered, it weathers blows on a back like wet stone and lets the tide do its fighting.
Crabbolo
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An older, broader cousin of the Crabber, its shell thickened by seasons. Strikes turn aside almost lazily — patience grown into armor.
Golgon
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A lumbering thing of crusted stone and old machinery, distant kin to the Golems. It moves as if remembering how, and hits like a falling wall.
Meeca
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A common, adaptable Anima found across many ranges. Unremarkable alone — dangerous in numbers.
Mimic
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It waits wearing the shape of treasure, still as a forgotten chest — until a greedy hand strays too close. The reward was always the bait.
Moorca
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A wanderer of the moors, steady and watchful. It picks no fight it cannot finish, and finishes most that it picks.
Nightstalker
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An apex hunter that runs with the dark — fast, fire-touched, and merciless. Where it passes under a full moon, little is left to find by morning.
Roggo
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A sturdy, even-tempered creature of the midlands — no great strength, no great weakness. The reliable measure against which wilder Animas are judged.
Screeder
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A creature of the Pixygon universe.
Spellmaster
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A creature threaded through with borrowed Art, channeling the celestial pulses the way a Veilwalker channels a spell. Keep your distance — or don't; both end ba…
Test
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A creature of the Pixygon universe.
Triox
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A three-natured beast of uncertain pedigree, balanced in all things and committed to none. Scholars still argue what it even is.
technologies(68)
Achieve precise control of quantum states
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Quantum computations require finely controlled quantum states. Precision in manipulation is vital for reliable computation.
Automate construction of large structures in space
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Create systems that autonomously assemble large structures in space from raw materials. This capability reduces reliance on human labor, maximizing efficiency and safety.
Break loose and collect raw material without a person present
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Develop remote or autonomous methods to cut, drill, or gather material from a body's surface or interior once a craft has arrived. This is distinct from processing; it is simply detaching usable material and containing it.
Build craft that can survive the trip and arrival at the body
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Construct vehicles able to withstand the journey's radiation, thermal swings, and micrometeorite exposure, then survive the stresses of landing or rendezvous. This depends on having a mission profile that specifies what the craft must endure and do.
Build models that explain why materials degrade as they do
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Use the collected data to construct physical and chemical models of the processes causing degradation, such as radiation damage, outgassing, or fatigue. These models let researchers move from observed patterns to underlying causes.
Capture solar energy efficiently in space
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Develop technologies to efficiently capture solar energy in space. This energy is essential for powering space missions and future megastructures.
Conduct detailed resource mapping of celestial bodies
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Create detailed maps of resources available on asteroids and other celestial bodies. Accurate information about available materials is crucial for efficient resource harvesting.
Conduct material exposure experiments in space
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Conduct experiments to expose materials to space conditions to gather data on their behavior. Understanding how materials degrade or remain durable in space is critical for megastructure construction.
Convert captured sunlight into a form that can be sent onward
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Once sunlight is captured, it exists as heat or electricity tied to the collector's location. Before it can be moved anywhere, it must be converted into a form suited for transmission, such as concentrated electrical current or coherent radiation.
Create habitats that maintain themselves and their inhabitants
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Habitats for interstellar journeys need to be self-sustaining environments. This involves automated maintenance and repair facilities that can operate without human intervention.
Cultural acceptance of consciousness transfer
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Achieve societal acceptance of transferring consciousness into robotic bodies. Without widespread acceptance, the technology will face significant roadblocks despite technical feasibility.
Define testable criteria for when identity has been preserved
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With a working model of identity persistence, a team can propose concrete, checkable criteria — behavioral, memory-based, and self-report based — for judging whether a transferred mind is still the same person. These criteria let later hardware and software efforts be validated rather than merely asserted to work.
Design a mission plan to reach and work at a chosen body
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Turn a shortlisted body into a concrete mission concept, covering the trajectory, timing, and what the craft must do once it arrives. This translates a target choice into requirements for propulsion, communication, and operations.
Design extraction tools matched to a body's specific material behavior
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Translate material performance predictions into concrete designs for cutting, drilling, or gathering mechanisms suited to the gravity, temperature, and structure of a chosen body. This closes the gap between knowing how material behaves and having a method to detach and contain it.
Develop algorithms tailored for quantum systems
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Algorithms specifically designed for quantum systems can solve problems classical computers cannot. Development of such algorithms is crucial for quantum advantage.
Develop culture and practices for multi-generational space travel
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Space inhabitants will require social structures and cultural norms to thrive across generations. Fostering a robust cultural framework supports social stability.
Develop safe navigation strategies for interstellar travel
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Navigation systems must ensure the safe passage across interstellar space, avoiding hazards and steering towards the destination efficiently.
Develop theoretical models for quantum error correction
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Create theoretical models to address error rates in quantum computations. Effective error correction is vital to making quantum computing practical.
Discover materials for better quantum computers
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New materials can greatly improve quantum computer performance. Discovering materials with optimal properties is a challenge that holds high rewards.
Efficiently convert and store solar energy
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Develop technologies that enable the efficient conversion and storage of solar energy on a large scale. This energy is essential to power the construction and operation of megastructures.
Emulate human cognition digitally
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Create a system that can emulate human thought processes, memory, and consciousness digitally. This involves mimicking the complexity of human cognition in a computational format.
Ensure identity continuity
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Ensure that the transferred consciousness retains the individual's identity, including memories, personality, and self-recognition. This capability is key for the destination to be meaningful.
Establish quantum communication networks
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Quantum communication networks allow for the transfer and synchronization of quantum information. This is vital for distributed quantum computing.
Extend quantum coherence times for computations
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Quantum coherence is essential for computations. Enhancing coherence times allows for longer and more complex calculations without error.
Fabricate scalable qubit systems
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Scalability of qubit systems is needed to perform quantum computations at a meaningful scale. Advances in fabrication techniques are required to build larger systems.
Find where consciousness markers disagree with reported experience
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Compare marker predictions against cases where subjective report and marker readings diverge, such as covert awareness under anesthesia or dissociation. Catalog the mismatches systematically rather than treating them as noise.
Formalize candidate markers of consciousness from theory
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Take the theoretical framework for consciousness and translate its core claims into specific, named markers or signatures that could in principle be observed in a nervous system. This step turns philosophical or abstract theoretical commitments into a checklist of candidate features.
Gather data on how exposed materials change over time
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Retrieve samples and telemetry from space exposure experiments and record how each material's properties shift under radiation, vacuum, thermal cycling, and impact. This turns raw exposure into a structured dataset that can be compared across materials and conditions.
Get robotic craft to a chosen body and keep them working there
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Send uncrewed vehicles that can travel to a selected body, land or rendezvous with it, and survive long enough to operate. This includes power, communication, and basic mobility in a low-gravity or microgravity environment.
Give a craft working power and communication once it arrives at the body
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Equip the craft with a way to generate or store power and to send and receive signals across the distance to Earth once it is at the target. This is what lets a craft that has merely arrived begin to actually function and report back.
Harvest resources from space with robots
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Develop the ability to extract and process raw materials from asteroids or other celestial bodies using robotic technologies. These materials are required to build structures on a massive scale within space.
Implement reliable quantum error correction
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Without error correction, quantum computations degrade quickly. Reliable error correction is critical for practical applications.
Integrate biological cycles for closed-loop life support
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Develop life support systems that integrate biological cycles like waste recycling and food production. These systems must maintain human life for extended periods without additional resources.
Interface brains with machines
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Develop technologies that allow seamless communication between human brains and machines. This interface is crucial for transferring human consciousness into a robotic form.
Keep a closed-loop life support system stable over a period of years
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Extend the closed-loop system so it keeps working without drifting into failure over a period of years rather than weeks or months. This means finding and fixing the slow buildups of toxins, nutrient imbalances, or microbial shifts that only show up over long runs.
Keep a crew alive for decades with no resupply
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Developing life support systems that function independently for multiple decades is crucial for interstellar travel. These systems must provide all necessary life support needs without outside assistance.
Keep the energy link aimed and working reliably over time
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A working long-distance transfer must also stay aligned and functional continuously despite orbital motion, drift, and wear, without a person present to correct it. This means building in automatic tracking, fault detection, and recovery so that the link stays usable across long operating periods.
Maintain self-replicating robotic systems
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Develop robots capable of self-repair, replication, and maintaining other systems. Such systems are crucial for long-term space construction projects where human intervention is minimal.
Make a life support system self-correct problems without outside intervention
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Give the closed-loop system the ability to detect and fix its own faults, imbalances, and component failures without any resupply, spare parts from outside, or expert intervention from Earth. This includes redundancy, self-repair of biological components, and automated rebalancing of cycles.
Map a human brain precisely
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Develop the ability to map the neural connections and structures of the human brain in detail. This precise mapping is crucial for understanding how memories and identity are encoded.
Map candidate consciousness markers onto neural simulation models
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Combine the formalized markers with the in-silico neural models so that each candidate marker corresponds to a specific, computable pattern of simulated activity. This produces a working hypothesis generator: for a given theory-derived marker, the model predicts what activity pattern should appear.
Match stored and transmitted energy supply to the changing needs of construction and operation
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Even with capture, transmission, and storage in place, the flow of energy must be managed so that it reliably meets fluctuating demand from construction crews and machinery. This requires converting stored energy into the right forms at the right rates without large losses.
Measure a synthesized material's quantum properties and check them against prediction
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Once a candidate material exists, its actual quantum behavior — coherence, noise resistance, stability — must be measured under conditions like those a quantum computer would use. Comparing measurement to prediction closes the loop and tells modelers what to fix.
Model candidate neural correlates of consciousness computationally
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Build computational models that link specific neural structures and dynamics to candidate markers of conscious experience. These models translate the theoretical framework into testable, simulate-able hypotheses about what patterns of activity correspond to awareness.
Model how identity could persist across a change of substrate
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Once candidate identity-bearing features are identified, a team can build computational models that represent an individual's memories, personality, and self-recognition patterns and test whether these persist under transformation. This turns the philosophical question of continuity into an engineering model that can be simulated and stress-tested.
Model neural connections in silico
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Create computer models that simulate neural connections to aid in brain mapping. Understanding these connections is a step toward detailed brain mapping needed for consciousness studies.
Model properties of potential quantum materials
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Modeling potential quantum materials helps identify candidates for better quantum computers. These models can predict properties that improve performance.
Move captured solar energy from collection point to where it's needed
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Once solar energy is captured in space, it must be moved to storage sites or work sites, often across large distances. This requires a way to transmit power without physical cables, either by beaming it or by physically moving energy-dense material.
Pick out which celestial bodies are worth sending robots to
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Using resource maps, select and prioritize specific asteroids or bodies whose composition and position make them viable candidates for extraction. This turns raw mapping data into a short list of targets with enough material value to justify a mission.
Predict candidate quantum materials' properties before making them
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Beyond modeling known material structures, teams use computational screening to predict properties of materials that have not yet been synthesized. This narrows a vast search space down to a shortlist worth pursuing in the lab.
Predict how untested materials will hold up in new space conditions
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Extend degradation models to forecast the behavior of materials under combinations of conditions that have not been directly tested, including longer durations and different locations in space. This lets engineers screen candidate materials before committing to expensive missions.
Revise the theory of consciousness using where markers fail
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Use the catalog of mismatches to adjust or replace the assumptions behind candidate markers, producing new theoretical proposals that account for the failures. Each revision must make new predictions that can again be tested against brain data.
Run a closed-loop life support system at small scale for a short duration
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Build a working prototype that recycles air, water, and waste and grows some food for a small number of people over a short stretch of time. This proves the biological cycles can be linked together into a working loop, even if not yet stable long term.
Scale a self-correcting life support system to a full crew for decades
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Grow the self-correcting closed-loop system from a small test group to the size of a full crew, and extend its proven stability from years to decades. This means the biological cycles, redundancy, and self-repair all have to work at a much larger scale and for a much longer time without any outside resupply.
Send energy across a short distance without wires, at small scale
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Before energy can cross large distances in space, a small-scale demonstration is needed that shows power can leave one point and arrive usable at another without a physical connection. This proves the basic transfer mechanism works and lets losses be measured directly rather than assumed.
Send energy across the much longer distances found in space
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Scaling wireless power transfer from a short demonstration to the distances between orbit and a work site or storage site introduces new problems: beam spreading, pointing accuracy over time, and interference from structures or bodies in between. This step focuses on keeping losses acceptable as distance grows by orders of magnitude beyond the small-scale case.
Simulate quantum coherence in computational models
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Use computational models to understand factors affecting quantum coherence. This simulation is a step toward improving coherence times for practical quantum computing.
Simulate quantum state dynamics
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Understanding quantum state dynamics is essential for precise control in quantum computing. Simulating these dynamics helps refine control protocols and identify challenges.
Store large amounts of energy in space for later use
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Energy captured or received must be held somewhere until it is needed, since construction and operation demands do not match capture patterns perfectly. This means finding ways to store very large quantities of energy in the space environment without excessive loss over time.
Sustain habitats around stars
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Ensure that habitats constructed around stars can support human life over long periods. This involves life support systems, radiation shielding, and other essential infrastructure.
Synthesize human-like robotic bodies
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Build robotic bodies that can host human cognitive functions and allow interaction with the environment as a human would. This requires advanced sensors and actuators that replicate human abilities.
Synthesize the materials that models predict will help
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Predictions must be turned into physical samples so their real properties can be checked against the model. This requires growing or fabricating small quantities of novel compounds with controlled purity and structure.
Test proposed consciousness markers against real brain and behavior data
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Compare the computational markers of consciousness against measurements from real brains in varied states, such as sleep, anesthesia, and injury. This step checks whether a proposed marker actually tracks subjective experience rather than some unrelated correlate.
The Thread
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Travel at a fraction of light speed with humans on board
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Achieving speeds that significantly cut down travel time to another star is essential. The technology must ensure human safety despite the extreme speeds.
Turn collected raw material into usable feedstock in space
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Convert extracted raw material into a form that can actually be used for construction or fuel, such as separating metals, volatiles, or other useful fractions. This step bridges collection and use, since raw unprocessed material is rarely usable as-is.
Understand and support long-term crew mental and physical wellbeing
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Sustaining crew mental and physical health is critical during an extended voyage. Understanding stressors and developing interventions are keys to mission success.
weft-pack
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