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Human minds could be downloaded into robots within 10 years, allowing human beings to ‘live forever’, says the Russian entrepreneur who heads a hi-tech research project called ‘Avatar’.
Itskov, a media entrepreneur, claims to have hired 100 scientists to reach this goal – and is now looking for other scientists to help with the project.
‘This project is leading down the road to immortality,’ says Itskov. ‘A person with a perfect Avatar will be able to remain part of society. People don’t want to die.’
Itskov, a 31-year-old media entrepreneur, says that he aims to transplant a human brain into a robot body within 10 years. He says his technology will be of interest at first to the ‘disabled and close to dying’
‘I understand these are some very big challenges for scientists,’ Itskov says. ‘But I believe in something you call ‘The American Dream.’ If you put all your energy and time into something, you can make it a reality.
Itskov envisages surgically ‘transplanting’ a human consciousness into a robot body within 10 years.
He hopes to then ‘upload’ minds without surgery, leaving human bodies as empty husks as their owners ‘live on’ inside robots.
The project is called Avatar after the James Cameron movie, set far in the future, where human soldiers use mind control to inhabit the bodies of human alien hybrids as they carry out a war against the inhabitants of a distant world.
‘The next effort of science will be to create a new body for the human being,’ says Itskov, speaking at the Global Future 2045 conference. ‘It will have a perfect brain-machine interface to allow control and a human brain life support system so the brain can survive outside the body.’
Itskov says that the system will at first be of interest to, ‘Disabled people and people at the edge of dying.’
‘The third phase will be to create an artificial human brain,’ he says – a computer environment into which human minds can be uploaded.
The Daleks' cyborg leader 'Davros': The first stage of Itskov's project will be to transplant a human brain into a robot. Itskov says that the system will at first be of interest to, 'People at the edge of dying.'
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His final goal, he says, is to upload human minds into holographic bodies.
Holograms give plenty of advantages. You can walk through walls, move at the speed of light, he says. ‘Remember in Star Wars, Obi-Wan’s hologram? That was pretty amazing.’
Itskov says he wants to work with DARPA – the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency in the U.S military.
DARPA is already researching ways for its troops to use their minds to remotely control androids who will take human soldiers’ place on the battlefield.
The Pentagon’s hi-tech research arm, has earmarked $7million for research into the project, also nicknamed Avatar.
According to the Darpa’s 2013 budget: ‘The Avatar program will develop interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bi-pedal machine and allow it to act as the soldier’s surrogate.’
-Via dailymail.co.uk
I like the power of his imagination.which are always the bedrock of great discoveries,as to the sanctity of his inetrest,i dont want to be involve in preemptive judgement,let the experts in theology do that.I believe God still remains the Ultimate moderator of the excessesof our imaginations and reasonings like Thomas Aquinas -the great theologian of th church,once said ‘Where our reasoning stops God takes over’
Mr man.u hav a great dream but its sound so foolish.go ahead and do ur research,d end will tell
i do not believe this report of man living forever. This is sign of the end of time. No human beign can live immortally
@Sammyx,humans can neva eva eva be God.Dey can neva create life,dey can only manipulate life God had already created,like usin livin cells,stem cells etc.Wat dis scientist wants to do is not makin man live 4eva but transplanting a human brain from a dead body into a robot.Now can we say dat dat person is livin 4eva or jst de brain&who knows how his goin to interface de brain wit de robot be4 de brain dies as well. Now de other aspect of transfering som1′s thought into a robot.Now can we also say dat dis persons is livin 4eva or jst his thoughts. And even if dis lie is possible,how wil dis so calld immortals procreate? Let us not fool ourself. Me being a black man does not make me a fool or think white men can do evrythin. No offence intended.
This reminds me of The Tower of Babel.
They also forgot to make reference to Terminator movies series. Recall I-Robot or The Matrix.
The Machines are Coming!
We all know what happened to Babel?
The Book of Revelation in the Holy Bible had captured all these.
Are you ready?
Ye-ye people. Stupid people.
- Tony X!
@moh’d, dont talk like dat even if this man isn’t proposed to establish these instruments one day, one day white man will try to become a God. Let’s be watching.
This is madness. Itskov or what ever u call your self, u better swallow ur dream or els you will not live to see the targeted date. Mind u, what u ar planning will only be done by the Almighty God, not even d whole world’s scientist can try it.But if u think u can try fine go ahead, u must bear d consequences.