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<\/a>Timeframe to 2045<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
by Lauren O’Neil
\nCBC News<\/p>\n
If Dmitry Itskov’s\u00a02045 initiative<\/a> plays out as planned, humans will have the option of living forever with the help of machines in only 33 years.<\/p>\n It may sound ridiculous, but the 31-year-old Russian mogul is dead serious about neuroscience, android robotics, and cybernetic immortality.<\/p>\n He has already pulled together a team of leading Russian scientists intent on creating fully functional holographic human avatars that house artificial brains which contain a person’s complete consciousness – in other words, a humanoid robot.<\/p>\n Together, they’ve laid out an\u00a0ambitious course of action<\/a>\u00a0that would see the team transplant a human brain into an artificial body (or ‘avatar’) in as little as seven years time.<\/p>\n Now, Itskov is asking the world’s richest people for help in financing the project.<\/p>\n In exchange, he’s offered to coordinate their own personal immortality projects for free.<\/p>\n “I urge you to take note of the vital importance of funding scientific development in the field of cybernetic immortality and the artificial body,” he\u00a0writes in an open letter<\/a>\u00a0to members of the Forbes World’s Billionaires List.<\/p>\n “Such research has the potential to free you, as well as the majority of all people on our planet, from disease, old age and even death.”<\/p>\n Itskov goes on to offer skeptics a meeting with “a team of the world’s leading scientists working in this field ” to prove the viability of the concept of cybernetic immortality.<\/p>\n And while many are skeptical that such a plan could ever come to fruition, Popular “DARPA is already working on it via a program called “Avatar” (which, incidentally, is also the name of Itskov’s project) through which the Pentagon hopes to create a brain-machine interface that will allow soldiers to control bipedal human surrogate machines remotely with their minds,” writes PopSci’s Clay Dillow.<\/p>\n “And of course there are all the ongoing medical prosthesis projects that have shown that the human nervous system can interface with prosthetic enhancements, manipulating them via thought. Itskov draws a clear arc from what we have now to the consciousness-containing holograms that he envisions. All we have to do is attack the technological obstacles in between, one at a time, until we get there.”<\/p>\n Discovery’s Alyssa Danigelis takes an opposing stance to the very idea.<\/p>\n “There’s a world of difference between pursuing a brain-controlled exoskeleton to help paraplegics regain control and wanting to essentially upload a human brain into an artificial body,”\u00a0she writes<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I read a sci-fi novel involving disembodied live brains once. It didn’t turn out well”<\/p>\n
\nScience Magazine points that phase one — creating a robot controlled by a human brain — is already well within reach.<\/p>\n
![ambitious course of action<\/a>\u00a0that would see the team transplant a human brain into an artificial body (or ‘avatar’) in as little as seven years time.<\/p>\nNow, Itskov is asking the world’s richest people for help in financing the project.<\/p>\nIn exchange, he’s offered to coordinate their own personal immortality projects for free.<\/p>\n“I urge you to take note of the vital importance of funding scientific development in the field of cybernetic immortality and the artificial body,” he\u00a0writes in an open letter<\/a>\u00a0to members of the Forbes World’s Billionaires List.<\/p>\n“Such research has the potential to free you, as well as the majority of all people on our planet, from disease, old age and even death.”<\/p>\nItskov goes on to offer skeptics a meeting with “a team of the world’s leading scientists working in this field ” to prove the viability of the concept of cybernetic immortality.<\/p>\nAnd while many are skeptical that such a plan could ever come to fruition, Popular\nScience Magazine points that phase one — creating a robot controlled by a human brain — is already well within reach.<\/p>\n“DARPA is already working on it via a program called “Avatar” (which, incidentally, is also the name of Itskov’s project) through which the Pentagon hopes to create a brain-machine interface that will allow soldiers to control bipedal human surrogate machines remotely with their minds,” writes PopSci’s Clay Dillow.<\/p>\n“And of course there are all the ongoing medical prosthesis projects that have shown that the human nervous system can interface with prosthetic enhancements, manipulating them via thought. Itskov draws a clear arc from what we have now to the consciousness-containing holograms that he envisions. All we have to do is attack the technological obstacles in between, one at a time, until we get there.”<\/p>\nDiscovery’s Alyssa Danigelis takes an opposing stance to the very idea.<\/p>\n“There’s a world of difference between pursuing a brain-controlled exoskeleton to help paraplegics regain control and wanting to essentially upload a human brain into an artificial body,”\u00a0she writes<\/a>.<\/p>\n“I read a sci-fi novel involving disembodied live brains once. It didn’t turn out well”<\/p>\n___\nhttp:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/newsblogs\/yourcommunity\/2012\/07\/human-immortality-could-be-possible-by-2045-say-russian-scientists.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":33,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/2045.com\/images\/milestones_en.png\"){kind=link}