/ 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
- Viktor F.Correspondent member of RAS, professor of the Moscow State University, head of the laboratory “Psychology of communications and psychosemantics” (MSU)
Petrenko"I think that as a working hypothesis, it is possible that forms of contacts with highly advanced civilizations are possible as a result of this profound meditation..."
- Professor Vyacheslav Y.Ph.D. in Biology, Inventor of the "Bioartificial liver" device
RYABININ - Alexander A.Professor, head of the laboratory in the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology RAS
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...’
- MaximRussian futurologist writer, journalist
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…’
- Professor Alexander Y.Ph.D. in Biology, Head of the Neurophysiology and Neural Interfaces Lab at the Russian State University Biology Department (MGU)
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...’
- Professor Sergey V.Ph.D. in Chemistry, Head of the Chemical Enzymology Department at the Moscow State University, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Biochemical Physics (Russian Academy of Sciences)
VARFOLOMEEV‘An electronic version of the brain is needed. The physical brain, in my opinion, can not be a subject of study, since it is very subtle. But an electronic analog having all the receptor equipment and the same story, incentives, motivation - it might be very interesting...’
- BarryProfessor at the University of Southern Maine, co-chairman of GF2045
Rodrigue"While innovation is often presented as a technological process, it also needs to be applied everywhere and to everything. We need innovation in human affairs, from family relations to business affairs. Innovation has to address both ecological balance of species and destruction of inorganic habitats. Alternatives must be found for warfare and the arms industry. In short, innovation is a process that applies to all existence..."
- SergeyResearcher, fiction and alternate history theorist. Is a literary critic and political essayist, sociologist, socionics specialist and military historian
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".
- Witali L.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
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...'
- Sergei V.Doctor of philosophy, professor
KrichevskiyOne temporary solution, in my opinion, is to create a “cosmic person”, and start doing so on Earth, within the “future person” project, as part of the “Russia 2045” Initiative.
- Vladimir A.President of Neyrobotiks
KONYSHEV‘The transfer of the brain into an artificial body, more enduring, more perfect, is the only way the human race to stay on Earth...’
- SergeyHead of the Space Technology and Telecommunications Cluster at the Skolkovo
Jukov"I am absolutely convinced that the movement “2045’ happened exactly at the right time and the right place as I believe in the great future for Russia, in her success after temporary difficulties".
- Elena V.Ph.D. in Biology, Head of the Lipid Metabolism Laboratory at the Russian Institute of Gerontological Research and Development
TERIOSHINA‘There is nothing to be afraid of. The project of creating a carrier of an immortal brain is of extreme importance. Nature definitely creates talented, brilliant, genius people – but they are mortal. Mankind creates books and imparts knowledge to descendants. But imagine a genius working eternally!’
- NickPhD, Professor of Oxford University, co-founder (with David Pearce) of the World Transhumanist Association
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..."