Posted on 03/03/2012 12:53:29 PM PST by RoosterRedux
At the recent Global Future 2045 International Congress held in Moscow, 31-year-old media mogul Dmitry Itskov told attendees how he plans to create exactly that kind of immortality, first by creating a robot controlled by the human brain, then by actually transplanting a human brain into a humanoid robot, and then by replacing the surgical transplant with a method for simply uploading a person’s consciousness into a surrogate ‘bot. He thinks he can get beyond the first phase--to transplanting a working brain into a robot--in just ten years, putting him on course to achieve his ultimate goal--human consciousness completely disembodied and placed within a holographic host--within 30 years time.
Pushing aside all the extremely difficult technological challenges for a moment, there are a couple of important to considerations tied up in Itskov’s vision. First, while the later phases of his project are so far out as to seem ridiculous, phase one is totally feasible (in fact it’s already being done). From there, the leap to phase two--human brainpower transplanted into a mechanical robot--is a quite a leap. But if we are willing to allow that it might be possible even within the next 30 years, then we have to consider a further possibility: that many people alive today--like the twenty-something author of this piece--could be confronted with this kind of technology in their lifetimes.
Which is terrifying and amazing and disconcerting all at the same time.
(Excerpt) Read more at popsci.com ...
Author is Clay Dillow.
Russian Mogul’s Plan: Plant Our Brains in Robots, Keep Them Alive Forever
So we become Daleks? Is this a good thing?
Maybe some of us would make better a B9 “Lost in Space” robot. Then we could go around saying “Danger, Will Robinson!”
Don’t know, just seems kind of soulless.
I take it you're not a Romney supporter?;-)
I remember several science fiction stories from the 1940s and 50s that speculated on the same premise. I don’t recall the titles and authors but “robotic immortality” certainly isn’t a new idea.
What a waste of perfectly good robot bodies that would be.
Sounds freaking exhausting. Besides, my consciousness wants to quit paying taxes and escape the communist utopia.
Sounds freaking exhausting. Besides, my consciousness wants to quit paying taxes and escape the communist utopia.
With every good comes bad. Do we really need a tech that could keep the Nancy Pelosi creature alive for eons?
The attempts at immortality are nothing new. The idea of the fountain of youth springs to mind. They are all symptoms of a lack of faith in an afterlife.
What is unfortunate for so many is that their lack of faith in a Heaven will almost certainly lead to an eternity in Hell. Perhaps a little more work on the spiritual aspects of ones nature would be better spent.
It would be devastating to learn that your new robot girlfriend was once your ex-wife's mother.
Look on the bright side...in three or four hundred years, Liberals might actually start to grow up.
I'm not sure it's so much a lack of faith in Heaven as it is an absolute refusal to go anywhere that requires obedience to God.
The Hell-bound don't realize it's Hell they are bound for. They think it's an orgy.
Do you really think Obamacare would cover this? Maybe for the Politburo, but not for us.
Next question.
No.
Next question.
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