Russia 2045

/ Immortality Corporation Vision

Dear friends,

Let me introduce you the Immortality Corporation work schedule.

The schedule is based on the analysis of the already existing research programs of Russia 2045 Initiative Group Members, as well as other scientific communities from Russia and abroad.

Artificial Body Research and Development will be divided into several tracks, to be pursued simultaneously.

The four tracks and their suggested deadlines are optimistic but feasible. This is our program for the next 35 years, and we will do our best to complete it.

The fourth development track seems the most futuristic one. It’s intent is to create a holographic body. Indeed, its creation is going to be the most complicated task, but at the same time could be the most thrilling problem in the whole of human evolution. Perhaps it is the ‘radiant mankind’ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wrote about.

We are in the process of creating focus groups of experts. Along with these teams, we will prepare goal statements and research programs schedules.

We invite interested specialists to contact us and join the discussion. We welcome your contribution.

Dmitry ITSKOV

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Dmitry
Itskov
‘Russia 2045’ Movement Founder, New Media Stars President
Do 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.
Timour N.
SHCHOUKINE
‘Russia 2045’ Coordinator, Ph.D. in Psychology
'The world is at the point when the functions humans consider to be their essential attributes (thinking, decision making, emotions) are on the edge of being finally alienated. Soon they will be performed by artificial 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 Vladimir G.
YAKHNO
Ph.D., Head of the Auto-wave Processes Group, Laboratory Chief at the Institute of Applied Physics (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Sergey
Jukov
Head of the Space Technology and Telecommunications Cluster at the Skolkovo
"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".
Sergey
Krichevskiy
Astronaut, professor of Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of Russia
One 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.
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. . . .”
Professor Witali L.
DUNIN-BARKOWSKI
Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Honorary Member of the Laboratory for Neuroinformatics of Sensory and Motor Systems, and Head of the Neuroinformatics Department of the Center for Optical and Neuronal Technologies at the Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis (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 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...’
Nick
Bostrom
PhD, Professor of Oxford University, co-founder (with David Pearce) of the World Transhumanist Association
"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..."
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...’
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...’
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..."
Vladimir A.
KONYSHEV
President of Neyrobotiks
‘The transfer of the brain into an artificial body, more enduring, more perfect, is the only way the human race to stay on Earth...’
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...’