A Russian billionaire has unveiled plans to make humans
immortal by converting them into “Terminator-style” cyborgs – a creature that’s
part human and part machine – within the next three decades.
Thirty two-year-old mogul, Dmitry Itskov has been pushing the
project forward since 2011 when he founded the 2045 Initiative.
His ultimate goal is to transfer a
person’s mind or consciousness from a living brain into a machine with that its
personality and memories intact.
The so called “Cyborg” will have no
physical form, and exist in a network similar to the Internet and be able to
travel at the speed of light all over the Earth, or even into the space.
Itskov’s first highly ambitious goal,
called Avatar A, involves a person controlling a robotic human replica through
a brain-machine interface (BMI), a technology that already exists.
The deadline for this first stage is
set for 2020. The Avatar B, due in 2025, would involve transplanting a
human brain into an artificial body “at the end of one’s life.”
Next in line is the Avatar C, that rolls around in 2035, that
would also involve a human-machine brain transplant, but with all personality
intact.
Itskov hopes the Initiative will have
learned enough about the human mind to free it completely from physical form
finally, by 2045.
According to the report, from the
Internet-like hive mind, individual personalities could manifest themselves as
holograms when they need to interact with their environment.
“We believe that it is possible and
necessary to eliminate ageing and even death, and to overcome the fundamental
limits of the physical and mental capabilities currently set by the
restrictions of the physical body,” the project website says.
Itskov is recruiting scientists and
authoring an open letter to the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, asking him to
support to push society’s transition to “neo-humanity.”
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