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/ Nomination №2. Motivator illustrations

^08.10.2012

The "Neo-humanity" illustration competition.

Cast your vote!

Nomination #2. Motivator illustrations - Microsoft Xbox 360 250Gb + Kinect.

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. Ivan Kolchanov. Compromise

Electronic brains? Better than no brains at all.

2. Ivan Kolchanov. Avatar for a cat

“When are they going to solve the problem of avatars for cats?!!!” The future will confront us with different challenges. ))))

3. Anna Zavrazina. Eternal love

Don’t part with your love ones. Resurrect your love ones. Avatar

4. Doctor Manhattan. Neosapiens take care

5. Doctor Manhattan. Children of the future

We are the children of the future

6. Doctor Manhattan. Immortality? Give me two!

7. Slonchak. Are you ready for the future?

Immortal, Eternal, Unlimited , New powers and Capabilities, Youth, Excellent, Vision, Touch, Taste, Tactile, Feelings, A new look at the world And yourself in it, Revealing New Limits to Yourself, Conquering time and space, The New Human, New Society, No Wars No Hunger No Death, An Ideal World Of Perfect People, Who Do Not Know Pain and Fear, Rage and Anger, The Era of the Human, Of Reason, All Culture, All History, All Art, Music, Literature, Painting, Inside Human Beings Themselves, Unlimited Access to the Works and Knowledge of Humanity, Life and Prosperity of the Human Being, The Main Value of the New Civilization, The Foundation, Perfection of the World and Yourself Of Order Moving Beyond the Limits, Of the Possible

/ experts

Viktor Yurievich
Argonov
Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Senior Researcher of the V.I.Il`ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences), composer, philosopher
“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. . . .”
Dmitry H.
BULATOV
Artist, art theorist, Curator of the National Center of Contemporary Arts (Kaliningrad branch)
‘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...’
Witali L.
Dunin-Barkowski
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
' 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...'
Professor Sergey V.
VARFOLOMEEV
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)
‘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...’
Professor Aleksandr A.
BOLONKIN
Ph.D. in Technical Sciences
‘An artificial mechanical body will have great power and withstand extreme environmental conditions: high temperature, pressure, radiation, space...’
Dmitry V.
GALKIN
“Art is a unique resource for fostering the creation of innovations. Only in the world of art creative power is so closely tied to the generation of ideas and to the humanization of technology . . .”
Lev Alexandrovich
Stankevich
The first step toward achieving human immortality is to create a neurally controlled avatar—a humanoid robot with a human-like skeleton and a set of artificial muscles and sensors.
Anders
Sandberg
Researcher, science debater, futurist, transhumanist, and author
"... 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..."
Professor Vyacheslav Y.
RYABININ
Ph.D. in Biology, Inventor of the "Bioartificial liver" device
Viktor F.
Petrenko
Correspondent member of RAS, professor of the Moscow State University, head of the laboratory “Psychology of communications and psychosemantics” (MSU)
"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..."
Mikhail Y.
YABLOKOV
Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Senior Researcher of the Heat-Resistant Thermoplastics Laboratory at ISPM (Russian Academy of Sciences), creator of nanosensor neurologic ‘Electronic nose’ system
‘When creating an artificial human, we need to add an emotional trend to the predominant robotics one. It’s an all-inclusive idea, and it’s in the air...’
Professor Boris K.
GAVRILYUK
Ph.D. in Medicine, Head of the Cells and Tissues Growth Laboratory of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics (Russian Academy of Sciences)
“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. . . .”
Professor Sergey V.
SELISCHEV
Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Head of Biomedical Systems Department at Moscow State Institute of Electronic Technology, Chief Editor of ‘Medical Technology’ Magazine
Professor Alexander Y.
KAPLAN
Ph.D. in Biology, Head of the Neurophysiology and Neural Interfaces Lab at the Russian State University Biology Department (MGU)
‘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...’
Sergey
Pereslegin
Researcher, fiction and alternate history theorist. Is a literary critic and political essayist, sociologist, socionics specialist and military historian
"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".