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How To Live Forever: Tech Startup Wants To Use Nanotechnology And Robotics To Transfer Consciousness Once We've Died
Humans have been trying to cheat death for centuries. But while this may have seemed like an impossible pipe dream, the evolution of technology is making it all the more possible that it’s only a matter of time before humans put their brains — or simply their consciousness — inside a robot body. Essentially, this could mean we’d live forever, and one company believes that time will come sooner than later.
Los Angeles-based startup Humai’s ultimate goal is to “extend and enhance human life,” Humai CEO and founder Josh Bocanegra told Medical Daily in an email. The company plans to do this by using artificial technology and nanotechnology to save data about a person’s “conversational styles, behavioral patterns, thought processes, and information about how [their] body functions from the inside-out,” according to the Humai website. Once it has collected everything it needs to know about who you were as a person, it can then begin building a robot body for your brain to live in after you die, effectively bringing you “back to life.”
“We want to use cryonics to preserve the brain and then use nanotechnology to repair the brain before implanting it to a bionic body,” Bocanegra said. “We have great ideas for how we can accomplish this but the details must be reserved until we conduct the research and run tests needed to come up with a strategy we're confident with. However, we aim to build the technology soon enough to bypass the death process and perform brain transplants before most of us die. ”
Bocanegra told Medical Daily brain resurrection is impossible right now because of current-day technology, “ but that's precisely why we're working on it. We need to solve this problem. We're also not talking about resurrection in the same way most people think of it as. We only think resurrection will be possible if someone is cryonically preserved after death. ”
But once the brain is brought back to life, how will it be able to control the new robot body? Speaking to Popular Science, Bocanegra said, “The artificial body functions will be controlled with your thoughts by measuring brain waves. As the brain ages we'll use nanotechnology to repair and improve cells. Cloning technology is going to help with this too.”
There are reasons to be skeptical of the whole process. For one, the team at Humai consists of just five employees: one works on artificial intelligence, two are researchers, another focuses on nanotechnology, and the fifth is an ambassador to investors and educators. “ Of course five people aren't going to solve the biggest problem in human life,” Bocanegra said. “Even if we were all scientists, we would still need the help of others. We're building a team of those who are educated in these fields, we're just organizing them around an overall mission.”
Another issue arises when you look at previous attempts to prolong or sidestep death. Robin Hanson, a futurist, economist, and author of The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth told Tech Insider that the field of artificial intelligence has already spent decades trying to develop programs that can have human-like conversations, yet progress has been slow. “Why would we expect one small group to make far more progress over the next five years than we’ve made over the last 50,” he said.
Bocanegra said he has so far only used his personal savings for this venture; however, Humai plans to look for investors within the next few months. If all goes according to plan, his venture will take a bit more than five years to complete. “If you’re alive in the next 30 years,” he said, “you may not have to die.”
Source: http://www.medicaldaily.com/how-live-forever-tech-startup-wants-use-nanotechnology-and-robotics-transfer-363522
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The main goals of the 2045 Initiative: the creation and realization of a new strategy for the development of humanity which meets global civilization challenges; the creation of optimale conditions promoting the spiritual enlightenment of humanity; and the realization of a new futuristic reality based on 5 principles: high spirituality, high culture, high ethics, high science and high technologies.
The main science mega-project of the 2045 Initiative aims to create technologies enabling the transfer of a individual’s personality to a more advanced non-biological carrier, and extending life, including to the point of immortality. We devote particular attention to enabling the fullest possible dialogue between the world’s major spiritual traditions, science and society.
A large-scale transformation of humanity, comparable to some of the major spiritual and sci-tech revolutions in history, will require a new strategy. We believe this to be necessary to overcome existing crises, which threaten our planetary habitat and the continued existence of humanity as a species. With the 2045 Initiative, we hope to realize a new strategy for humanity's development, and in so doing, create a more productive, fulfilling, and satisfying future.
The "2045" team is working towards creating an international research center where leading scientists will be engaged in research and development in the fields of anthropomorphic robotics, living systems modeling and brain and consciousness modeling with the goal of transferring one’s individual consciousness to an artificial carrier and achieving cybernetic immortality.
An annual congress "The Global Future 2045" is organized by the Initiative to give platform for discussing mankind's evolutionary strategy based on technologies of cybernetic immortality as well as the possible impact of such technologies on global society, politics and economies of the future.
Future prospects of "2045" Initiative for society
2015-2020
The emergence and widespread use of affordable android "avatars" controlled by a "brain-computer" interface. Coupled with related technologies “avatars’ will give people a number of new features: ability to work in dangerous environments, perform rescue operations, travel in extreme situations etc.
Avatar components will be used in medicine for the rehabilitation of fully or partially disabled patients giving them prosthetic limbs or recover lost senses.
2020-2025
Creation of an autonomous life-support system for the human brain linked to a robot, ‘avatar’, will save people whose body is completely worn out or irreversibly damaged. Any patient with an intact brain will be able to return to a fully functioning bodily life. Such technologies will greatly enlarge the possibility of hybrid bio-electronic devices, thus creating a new IT revolution and will make all kinds of superimpositions of electronic and biological systems possible.
2030-2035
Creation of a computer model of the brain and human consciousness with the subsequent development of means to transfer individual consciousness onto an artificial carrier. This development will profoundly change the world, it will not only give everyone the possibility of cybernetic immortality but will also create a friendly artificial intelligence, expand human capabilities and provide opportunities for ordinary people to restore or modify their own brain multiple times. The final result at this stage can be a real revolution in the understanding of human nature that will completely change the human and technical prospects for humanity.
2045
This is the time when substance-independent minds will receive new bodies with capacities far exceeding those of ordinary humans. A new era for humanity will arrive! Changes will occur in all spheres of human activity – energy generation, transportation, politics, medicine, psychology, sciences, and so on.
Today it is hard to imagine a future when bodies consisting of nanorobots will become affordable and capable of taking any form. It is also hard to imagine body holograms featuring controlled matter. One thing is clear however: humanity, for the first time in its history, will make a fully managed evolutionary transition and eventually become a new species. Moreover, prerequisites for a large-scale expansion into outer space will be created as well.
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• International social movement
• social network immortal.me
• charitable foundation "Global Future 2045" (Foundation 2045)
• scientific research centre "Immortality"
• business incubator
• University of "Immortality"
• annual award for contribution to the realization of the project of "Immortality”.
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