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16.03.2016

Why no amount of science can make humans immortal: Horizon - review /

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/03/16/why-no-amount-of-science-can-make-humans-immortal-horizon---revi/

Horizon: The Immortalist (BBC Two) was an intriguing update on science’s engagement in the ongoing quest for eternal life – its focus being the brain’s potential for providing us with the means to transcend death.

The immortalist of the title was Dmitri Itskov, a Russian billionaire funding a major research effort aiming to discover how to extract the human brain and its contents (individuality, personality, memories etc) from the body and upload it into a more durable container. All that we are, Itskov reckons, can be reduced to neural networks. His ambition is to leave behind the physical, or at least the biological, and have several alternative “bodies” which he can flit to and from at will and extend his life immeasurably.

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15.03.2016

This Russian billionaire hopes to achieve IMMORTALITY by 2045 - and here's how /

http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/653025/This-Russian-billionaire-hopes-to-achieve-IMMORTALITY-by-2045-and-here-s-how

BILLIONAIRE Dmitry Itskov has said he will make it possible for humans to live forever in the next 30 years - by uploading their brains onto a computer.

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08.07.2015

Thought Economics / The End of Life and Death

http://thoughteconomics.com/the-end-of-life-and-death/

Our Quest for Immortality – In this exclusive interview series, we speak to Prof. Jack Szostak (Nobel Prize winning Geneticist), Dmitry Itskov (billionaire founder of the 2045 Initiative), Aubrey de Grey (Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation), Prof. Ezekiel Emanuel (Bioethicist and Fellow at the Centre for American Progress) and Prof. George Church (Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School). We discuss the fundamental essence of life itself, why we die, research into extending lifespans, and whether we will ever overcome our mortality.

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09.06.2015

Dailymail / Disabled ‘guinea pig’ for first full HEAD transplant to meet surgeon for first time this week and insists he'll only go under knife when it is '99% possible

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3117029/I-m-not-going-crazy-cut-head-Disabled-man-volunteering-HEAD-transplant-meet-surgeon-time-tomorrow-insists-ll-knife-99-possible.html

The man volunteering to be the guinea pig for pioneering head transplant surgery is flying to America this week to meet for the first time the doctor intending to give him a new body.

Russian Valery Spiridonov will appear at a major medical conference in Annapolis with Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero, who hopes to convince the medical establishment that his techniques are on the brink of viability.

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02.06.2015

Salon / 9 obscene ways the rich spend their money

http://www.salon.com/2015/06/02/9_obscene_ways_the_rich_spend_their_money_partner/

Trying to live forever. It’s a myth that Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen; the Cryonics Society of California claims he was very interested in the process, but his “family didn’t go for it.” Today, several super-rich types are investing heavily in cryonics, as well as other life-extending measures. Canadian electronics billionaire Robert Miller and American hotel and casino billionaire Don Laughlin have both poured tons of support money into Alcor, which bills itself as the “world leader in cryonics.” If everything works out for these two, at the point of death, their body temperatures will be lowered to somewhere below -120° C (that’s -248° F) in a process called “vitrification” until the cure for what ailed them is discovered and they can be revived, or something like that. (They’re also planning to have most of their assets frozen, because what’s the point of bothering to live if you’re poor?) Russian tech billionaire Dmitry Itskov launched the 2045 Initiative, which sounds about as bizarro as one might hope a billionaire’s plans for immortality would. 

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28.05.2015

Visao / Dmitry Itskov, o multimilionário russo que quer ser um robô

http://visao.sapo.pt/dmitry-itskov-o-multimilionario-russo-que-quer-ser-um-robo=f821106

Dmitry Itskov é o jovem russo que quer ser imortal e que, para isso, desenvolveu a Iniciativa 2045. O projeto prevê a transplantação do cérebro humano, com o objetivo de criar uma cópia robótica dos indivíduos. Mas Dmitry não está sozinho: 38 mil pessoas estão envolvidas no projeto, que defende uma geração de 'neohumanos'.

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17.04.2015

Financial Times / Since you asked: The technology billionaires aiming to disrupt death

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/317cd592-e4ec-11e4-bb4b-00144feab7de.html#axzz3fIdWbLax

So there is nothing certain but death, taxes — and the unending capacity of the rich to try and cheat both of those things?

I take it you are not sold on the idea that death, just like the horse and cart, might one day be disrupted with the help of some innovative engineering?

No. But I have noticed that there’s been a rise in the number of modern day tech messiahs claiming they hold the secret to eternal life.

Back in my day we used to call these characters charlatans. But today I understand they are called “transhumanists”. And they come extremely well funded.

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05.03.2015

Newsweek / Silicon Valley Is Trying to Make Humans Immortal—and Finding Some Success

http://www.newsweek.com/2015/03/13/silicon-valley-trying-make-humans-immortal-and-finding-some-success-311402.html

Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, plans to live to be 120. Compared with some other tech billionaires, he doesn’t seem particularly ambitious. Dmitry Itskov, the “godfather” of the Russian Internet, says his goal is to live to 10,000; Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, finds the notion of accepting mortality “incomprehensible,” and Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, hopes to someday “cure death.”

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22.02.2015

Newyorker / How to Live Forever

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/live-forever

Could technology help to make our minds last forever? Consider the following parable, about a very wealthy man I’ll call Nicolas Flamel.

As he became older, Flamel became fixated on the idea that he didn’t want to die. After considering the problem for a long time, he figured that what he needed to do was move the contents of his mind into a receptacle more stable than a human head.

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26.01.2015

IEET / Making Minds Morally: the Research Ethics of Brain Emulation

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/sandberg20150126

This talk will outline some of the ethical considerations that will need to go into any project aiming at creating brain emulations. In the near future the main issue is the ethical treatment of virtual experimental animals under profound uncertainty about their true moral status. Applying a cautious approach suggests to use methods similar to existing animal welfare methods, but adapted to the peculiarities of software entities. In the mid-term, the case of human emulations raises a number of other ethical challenges, including informed consent, handling of flawed versions, time rate rights, vulnerability, and the change of identity and death. Finally, the long-term effects and importance of brain emulation will be discussed: are there ethical reasons that strongly speak against pursuing it at all, or equally strongly favor a push towards it?

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Founded by Russian entrepreneur Dmitry Itskov in February 2011 with the participation of leading Russian specialists in the field of neural interfaces, robotics, artificial organs and systems.

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.

 

Key elements of the project in the future

• 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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