/ Nomination №1. Illustrations of the neo-human
The "Neo-humanity" illustration competition.
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Nomination #1. Illustrations of the neo-human - Apple MacBook Air.
Voting conditions:
1. The online voting will last for two weeks. The winners from each categpru will be announced on Tuesday, 23 October.
2. You may only vote once in each category and for only one illustration.
3. Only members of the “2045” Initiative may vote.
We wish all of the nominees good luck!
Let’s go!
1. Yulia Khudyakova. Virtual Journey
2. Ivan Kolchanov. New View
3. Ivan Kolchanov. Immortal Feeling
4. Nikolai Pronev. Avatar 2045
5. Nastyonka Kleo. The Colonist and the Dawn
6. Octavio Cordova. Neo-Humanity
7. Ksenia Komarova. Neo-interaction
8. Ksenia Komarova. Space Exploration
9. Konstantin Bratishko. Avatar D
10. Anatasia Koshchevich. Homofuturis
11. Maria Kovtun. Forest Fire
Artist's commentary: "The illustration shows a person helping an animal that could not escape from a fire. As the person is no longer afraid of fire, they may protect animals with the power of their bio-field".
12. Maria Kovtun. An Artist in Space
Artists' commentary: "The illustration shows how people will be able to fly in outer space without space suits. In this case, the artist has drawn a stellar explosion from nature, which can be seen on the edge of the globe".
13. Yuying (Nina) Zhang. Neo-Humanity
14. Yelena Dudorova. Own Body Simulation
15. Yulia Medvedeva. The Neo-Human in the Worldwide Web
16. Yarosh Nohkhan. Avatar D. Virtual Reality
Artist's commentary: "The photo shows my avatar in the virtual enviironments Second Life and Opensim. The appearance of the avatar, the objects and settings of the environment are all created by the user (i.e. me in this case). The main idea is to show freedom of creativity and self-expression that is available to the "inhabitants" of virtual worlds of the present and future".
17. Ayuna Mitulova. Neo-Human
18. Veronika Lysenko. Through the Universe
/ experts
- Ph.D. in Biology, Head of the Lipid Metabolism Laboratory at the Russian Institute of Gerontological Research and Development
Elena V.
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!’
- Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Senior Researcher of the V.I.Il`ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences), composer, philosopher
Viktor Yurievich
Argonov“I think that before initiating a radical cyborgization of the brain, you have to find the neural correlate of consciousness. Does it have a physical or purely informational nature in the form of neurosignals? Is there a group of neurons that is directly responsible for consciousness? Or perhaps consciousness is produced by still smaller elements within neurons. . . .”
- Artist, art theorist, Curator of the National Center of Contemporary Arts (Kaliningrad branch)
Dmitry H.
BULATOV‘In the near future, hybrid combinations of living and nonliving elements will help to recover lost or missing original features. And of course, greatly enhance them in comparison to the usual ones...’
- 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. in Biology, Inventor of the "Bioartificial liver" device
Professor Vyacheslav Y.
RYABININ - Ph.D. in Medicine, Head of the Cells and Tissues Growth Laboratory of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Professor Boris K.
GAVRILYUK“For skin on a cyborg, you simply need to create a nutrition system. And basically . . . we are not really complex in design! There are only a few systems: the circulatory system carries oxygen and nutrients; the excretory system extirpates the waste. The rest is end-effectors. To begin we can create a very simple living organism—then, later, more complex systems. . . .”
- Chairman of the organizing committee of the political party “Evolution 2045”, founder of the movement “Russia 2045”, president of the congress GF2045
Dmitry
ItskovDo you remember The Surrogates movie? It perfectly demonstrates the abilities of a mind-controlled artificial human body, or an avatar. It is what our project is all about. The Surrogates’ screenwriters were not consistent enough (probably due to the lack of imagination) in the evolution of their ideas. There is no doubt that the mankind needs an avatar.
- 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 . . .”
- Doctor of philosophy, professor
Sergei V.
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.
- Head of the Space Technology and Telecommunications Cluster at the Skolkovo
Sergey
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".
- President of Neyrobotiks
Vladimir A.
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...’
- 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...’
- 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…’