Immortal digital era

Replacing the biological body into robot incarnations can be a way to bring immortality to humans.

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While Western scientists have yet to find a gene to help people live as long as they want, there is a group of eccentric but extremely rich people in Silicon Valley and the Moscow suburbs that are turning their attention to promising projects. Appointment brings a new version of immortality. And this approach seems to be successful.

What these people hope to call is "digital immortality". According to Stephen Cave, the new Immortality book author, digital immortality does not mean being present forever on websites like Facebook or Twitter. According to The Independent , it is the transfer of all thoughts and memories to a representative robot when the biological body is destroyed. This is considered Plan B if science fails to find a way to turn the human body into "indestructible diamond". In general, if you find a way to live, it does not eliminate the risk of fatal accidents, while the robot can be replaced with another metal body even if the bus is rolled over, Cave reasoning.

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'Your brain will be scanned and all data is uploaded online in bits and bytes. The entire brain activity can be stored in the memory bank so that when necessary, it will be revived as an incarnation (avatar) as in the virtual world of Second Life game , "Cave explained. It sounds like a science fiction story, but experts think it will be sooner or later. Dr. Stuart Armstrong, PhD student at the Institute of Human Future at Oxford University (UK), said that the problem was purely a technical challenge and could be solved within a decade if he people who invest in research, with the scale of the Manhattan project - developing nuclear weapons in World War 2 co-operated by England, Canada, and the United States.

Dr. Randal A. Koene is one of those who decided to bet on digital immortal projects as Cave's book described. Koene is the founder of a nonprofit organization called the Carbon Edition project, with the goal of creating a community of like-minded scientists with the ultimate goal of creating a digital version of people. India has planned to build exaflop supercomputers (1018 calculations per second), which is 100 times more powerful than current supercomputers, in 2017. And science institutes like the Allen Institute of Intellectual Science are spending 300 million USD to find out how to discover how the brain encodes, as well as download and replace information.

The problem is, in the end, is robot incarnation a welcome achievement, or is it actually a curse no less no less?'If my daughter dies and I replace it with an electronic incarnation to overcome my grief, will I let it grow and even give birth to a child like another?' , Cave asked himself questions. Despite the objections of many experts, who claim that humans are inherently obliged to abide by the law of many other species, Dr. Koene argues that such immortality is the next step of species evolution. people 'allow us to exist before natural selection, whether on earth or on other planets'.