Russian ambition ambition to make people immortal

A Russian cyber-tech millionaire wants to change people's destiny by digitizing the wisdom of the human brain into electronic computers.

Russian network technology millionaire Dmitry Itskov hopes to find immortal methods for human intellect.(Photo: Kinja)

According to BBC, this is a completely different method from how to change people's lives with advanced smart devices or social media applications of many tech tycoons.

Dmitry Itskov, 35, who left the business to devote himself to finding something more useful to mankind, promises that within 30 years humans will become immortal thanks to technology. this.

" I'm 100% sure that this will come true, otherwise I won't start this project," Itskov pledged. "Without immortal technology, I will die within 35 years ," he lamented.

Therefore, Itskov has put most of his assets into the bold plan he initiated to eliminate the aging process .He wanted to use advanced science to unlock the secrets of the human brain and then load his entire mind into computers, freeing them from the constraints of the biological body.

" The ultimate goal in my plan is to be able to transfer the whole mind of a human personality into a whole new body ," he said.

The prospect of realization

The scientific director of the 2045 Initiative funded by Itskov, Dr. Randal Koene, a neurologist who used to be a research professor at Boston University's Memory and Brain Center, thinks the idea of Itskov is very feasible.

" All evidence indicates that the theory is something that can be done, albeit extremely difficult, but it can become a reality. And when that happens, you can say that one Such people are people with vision, not mad people , "Koene said.

The human brain has about 86 billion neurons, connected by releasing charges that propagate through organizations in the skull like waves.However, the biggest mystery is the way the brain produces mind, mind, and wisdom has not had the correct scientific answer, in the opinion of neuroscientist Professor Rafael Yuste of Columbia University. , America.

" The main challenge is how to go from the physical surface of the inner brain cells to the mental world, with thoughts, with memories, with our emotions ", Yuste said.

To find out, scientists use a new approach, considering the brain as an electronic computer .The brain sets the input information as the data that perceives the outcome as human behavior through calculation.

This is also the starting point of theoretical arguments about the transmission of the human mind to the computer and if this process is completed in accordance with the theory outlined, a computer brain will emerge. The original copy is next to the mind with the identity of a person.

That's the view of Dr. Ken Hayworth, a neuroscientist who is studying the mouse brain mapping at the Janelia research facility in Virginia, USA.He is concerned with the process of conveying people's minds to computers.

Hayworth believes that if one can connect to the connectome map (complex connections of all nerve cells in the brain), it is possible to hold the lock used to encode all the information that makes people themselves. has personality, identity, although this has not been proven.

However, Hayworth acknowledged that it would take him a long time to map the human connectome mapping . " The time to fully digitize the brain of flies can take up to two years, so mapping the human brain to the current science and technology level is utterly utopian. " , he said.

Even when the mapping of the human brain is fully completed, the process of conveying the human mind to the computer still faces the extremely tough challenge of requiring continuous reading of the activity. of all nerve cells in the brain.

Ambitious

The world's largest neuroscience research project " Creative brains " is part of a $ 6 billion program to tackle the mysteries of brain disorders like Alzheimer's, which Yuste is responsible for coordinating. , can bring an unexpected help to Itskov.

Yuste hopes to map the intermittent interactions of nerve cells into patterns of activity in the brain over time.

" We want to measure each pulse at the top of every nerve fiber of all nerve cells simultaneously at the same time. That's what most people think is impossible ," Yuste said. .

Neurologist Ken Hayworth.(Photo: BBC)

This is a new approach not based on mapping connectome. In a study that has not yet been widely published, Yuste first captured the temporal animation of a blinking electrical signal generated from the activity of nerve cells, recording almost all cells. The nerve of hydra, an invertebrate, has one of the simplest nervous systems in the evolutionary system.

" It's particularly interesting ," Yuste said. " However, we do not yet understand what these models mean. It's like you're listening to a conversation in a foreign language that you don't understand ."

In the next 15 years, Yuste hopes to complete the mapping, while explaining the activities of all nerve cells in the mouse cortex. But Yuste's ultimate goal is to understand the continuous activity of nerve cells in the human brain.

" If the brain is a digital computer, and you want to convey the human mind to the computer, you first need to decode it or at least store it in digital form. So, I Thinking that the Creative Mind Project is a necessary step for the implementation of the human mind transfer process to computers can happen. "

There are many opinions that Itskov's project is very difficult to succeed. At Duke University, North Carolina, USA, one of the leading neuroscientists thinks that the brain is an extremely complex living entity , responsible for controlling all aspects of human survival. so it cannot be copied .

" There is no way to encode intuition or beauty brought about by the aesthetic mind, nor can it encode love and hate, " said Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, who is researching and developing the set. Brain-supported skeleton support to help people who are paralyzed to walk.

" There's no way that the modified human brain is reduced to a trivial digital storage device. Simply can't transform the complex sophistication of the brain into algorithms that the machine understandability ".

Risk

Transmitting the human mind to the computer will open a world full of risks.

" If you can copy the human mind and transmit it into another form of material, in principle, you can become a copy of a clone," Yuste said. "These are very complex issues because it relates to the core of human definition ."

Millionaire Itskov introduced a copy of the robot that conveyed his intelligence in the future.(Photo: Zazenlife)

Itskov is more optimistic: " I will answer you questions about the morality of the project by citing the Dalai Lama's point of view that you can do everything if your motivation is to help people. " .

" In the following centuries, I envisioned having many living bodies, each in somewhere in space, something like a three-dimensional image of my consciousness moving from this place. to another place ".

Without the support of immortal technology, it is estimated that the world has 107 billion deaths so far. In the future, thanks to human understanding of the brain's progression, we can know Itskov is really an important visionary as he claims, or merely a man who cherishes dreams cannot be realized.