/ Letter To the Members of “Russia 2045”
Dear friends and colleagues!
I would like to thank everyone for accepting its ideals and for supporting the objectives and values of our movement
The feedback from the media on the publication of the Movement’s Manifesto has shown that the world has slightly changed since we started talking about what was previously considered fantasy; what had seemed too impossible to even discuss: immortality, the artificial body, the creation of a super-human of the future.
The first step has been taken; the Movement has declared itself, created a website, published the Manifesto, sent a letter to the President of Russia, and sent an invitation to cooperate to experienced scientists and experts. But of course, we will not stop there and will continue moving forward.
We need to start real work to implement all these ideas that we have stated in the Manifesto: immortality, the artificial body, the extraordinary human of the future, the multi-body, and the expansion of mankind into space.
Our project can and should become the new national idea in Russia of the XXI century, and the global idea for all of humanity. It will help advance the civilization of the future, to life with no death. This is our dream and our raison d’etre, and we dedicate all our time and energy to this goal. We hope now it is your dream too. And we look forward to your feasible support: from participation in research or writing scientific articles in support of the project, to funding, establishing supporting structures or the spreading of the ideology of the movement. To achieve the objectives stated in the “Russia 2045” movement’s Manifesto, myself, the initiator of the creation of the Movement, together with my colleagues plan to form the following structures and to approve the following documents.
Structures:
- Approval of the Board of Technical Experts;
- Approval of the Ethics Council;
- Approval of the Managing Board of the “Russia 2045” movement.
Documents:
- Approval of an Ideological program for the Movement;
- Approval and registration of the movement’s Charter;
- Approval of the Strategic Work and Development program of the “Russia 2045” movement for the years 2011-2035;
- The registration of the proprietary Immortality Corporation which will work directly on the Artificial Body Project. This project will require help of all the interested volunteers.
Everyone will find a task in accordance with her or his interests.
We need:
- A mediagroup (magazines, newspapers, TV, websites, radio, movements) for promotion of the ideas of the Movement);
- Managers (management, promotion, implementation of the landmark objectives of the project);
- An advertising group (installations, expositions, project advertising);
- A group of the Movement’s website admins (moderators, web-designers, programmers);
- A Fundraising group;
- A PR and press group (press secretaries);
- Lawyers (agreements, structure registration, legal support);
- Economists-consultants
About the Movement’s Format
The Movement will be represented by several organizational forms at the same time:
- A joint-stock company;
- A non-profit partnership;
- An ideological social network (Internet movement);
- A research and development center.
Planned monthly events of the Movement
To improve efficiency:
- to hold working conferences - live ones or via Skype - starting from April 2011.
- to organize seminars which will give overviews of technology and will set out the ideology of the Movement
- to publish reports about the Movement’s work.
Ideological subgroups of the Movement
Despite the fact that the creation of an artificial body is first of all a technological, scientific project; I realize that we are bound to search for many answers related to philosophy, ethics, morality and religion. We should help society develop a new paradigm for existence, new ethics and perhaps even new psychology, philosophy, and culture to stand the probable “shock of the future” caused by the transition to artificial mind carriers.
Given the large variety of opinions and views of those who join the Movement one way or another, the Board decided to create three factions within the Movement:
- atheistic,
- religious,
- in-between.
Each faction can bring favor to the Movement, provided that it does not impose its views to the members of other factions, and respects the views of others and, most importantly, shares the proclaimed values, goals and objectives of the Movement.
The purpose of this factionalism is mutual cultural and intellectual enrichment, search for common approaches, development of a new paradigm of relations between science, philosophy and religion. If you want to cooperate with us and participate in the project realization - send your resumes, suggest your ideas, develop your plans, create your groups in the frames of the project, the Manifesto, the goals and the ideology of the Movement.
Best wishes!
Dmitry Itskov, initiator of the creation of the “Russia 2045”.
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/ experts
- Ph.D. in Biology, Inventor of the "Bioartificial liver" device
Professor Vyacheslav Y.
RYABININ - Professor, head of the laboratory in the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology RAS
Alexander A.
Frolov‘The problem of creating artificial memory devices capable of storing the natural memory of a given individual is, understandably, complex but by no means unsolvable...’
- Researcher, science debater, futurist, transhumanist, and author
Anders
Sandberg"... I certainly think that practical benefits of being able to live for ever, if I transmit myself digitally, I will be able to run on bodies which are not biological or enhanced biological and be able to backup copies in case, if something goes wrong, would be enormous. So, I think, that in the future I am hoping to be software..."
- Russian futurologist writer, journalist
Maxim
Kalashnikov"This is something that nobody in the world could pass up. Creation of super- and posthuman, I believe, is a gaining of new strength while saving from degeneration and extinction, . This could potentially make Russia the world leader…’
- Ph.D. in Technical Sciences
Professor Aleksandr A.
BOLONKIN‘An artificial mechanical body will have great power and withstand extreme environmental conditions: high temperature, pressure, radiation, space...’
- Researcher, fiction and alternate history theorist. Is a literary critic and political essayist, sociologist, socionics specialist and military historian
Sergey
Pereslegin"Project 2045 also requires enormous engineering support. And I would claim that both for Russia and for the entire world, the only possibility of overcoming the phase barrier is not to solve biological tasks, not biotechnology, but to solve the task for maintaining engineering for the critical period of 20 years".
- President of the Center for Cellular and Biomedical Technologies, First Moscow Medical University and expert on the conscious management of health, biotherapy and the prevention of aging
Dmitry A.
SHAMENKOV‘The body gradually becomes artificial; new tissues replace existing ones, and new media, somehow extending the limits of our body, are being invented. Of course, man and technology are being knitted together. Step by step, we are moving towards the formation of a cybernetic organism...’
- Doctor of physics and mathematics, Head of the Department of Neuroinformatics at the Center for Optical Neural Technologies of the Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Witali L.
Dunin-Barkowski' If the job is to be taken seriously, we can get a detailed model of a brain prototype within five years or so. And since many research areas concerned with the subject develop in parallel, it may well be that we can achieve these results even faster...'
- PhD, Professor of Oxford University, co-founder (with David Pearce) of the World Transhumanist Association
Nick
Bostrom"The digital path [of extreme longevity] would be, if we could develop technology eventually to do human whole brain emulation, where we would create a very detailed model of a particular human brain and then emulate that in the computer, where we would have an indefinite life span potential, we could make backup copies and so forth..."
- Ph.D. philosopher and psychologist, editor-in-chief of Historical Psychology and Sociology magazine, and a professor at Moscow State University
Akop Pogosovich
Nazaretyan“The intelligence of modern man is an artificial intelligence . . .”
- Ph.D. in Biology, Head of the Neurophysiology and Neural Interfaces Lab at the Russian State University Biology Department (MGU)
Professor Alexander Y.
KAPLAN‘By the time sustaining a brain artificially becomes possible, bio-robots will have been perfected to the point of looking like a decent human body...’