New startup aims to transfer people's consciousness into artificial bodies so they can live forever

[Hod8]

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As advancements in technology continue at an ever-increasing pace, will there ever come a day when we’ll be able to use science to cheat death? Australian startup company Humai seems to think so; it claims to be working on a way to transfer a person’s consciousness into an artificial body after they’ve died.

“We want to bring you back to life after you die,” says Humai CEO Josh Bocanegra on the company’s website. “We’re using artificial intelligence and nanotechnology to store data of conversational styles, behavioral patterns, thought processes and information about how your body functions from the inside-out. This data will be coded into multiple sensor technologies, which will be built into an artificial body with the brain of a deceased human. Using cloning technology, we will restore the brain as it matures.”
In an interview with Australian Popular Science, Bocanegra said: “We'll first collect extensive data on our members for years prior to their death via various apps we're developing.” After death, the company will cryogenically freeze members’ brains until the technology is fully developed, at which point the brains will be implanted into an artificial body.

“The artificial body functions will be controlled with your thoughts by measuring brain waves. As the brain ages we'll use nanotechnology to repair and improve cells. Cloning technology is going to help with this too.”

Bocanegra believes, somewhat optimistically, that his company will be able to resurrect the first human within the next 30 years. At the moment, Humai only has four staff but it is looking to recruit more members over the coming months.

A lot of what Humai says is pretty vague when it comes to precise details, and the company seems to be relying on a lot of scientific breakthroughs being made in the near future.

Bocanegra, meanwhile, doesn’t come from a scientific background. He describes himself as "a serial entrepreneur, technology visionary and internet marketer" on his website. Before he started Humai, Bocanegra set up an Airbnb-Meets-OKCupid dating app called LoveRoom that lets two people live together for a week to see if they would be romantically compatable.




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This is not that great to hear from my point of view. Artificial people? No! Isn't the story of Atlantis that their technology outweighed their spirituality & that's the reason they were destroyed? That's one thing I remember reading, hearing or knowing. Not good to go back there. Let's stay "real" people. Talk to each other, touch each other, love each other IN PERON, NOT through something man made. Our technology has already caused miscommunication as well as led us to be distanced from reality. It's time to get back to basics of humanity.

[Mercedes]

Well! To say the least this sounds absolutely grotesque. Singularity is coming this way it seems and the more we become disconnected from our true nature, the more we will be lured by the technology singing mermaids. I say I will not become a machine, hell no! Body and mind at the mercy of whoever is running the master computer. Again??!!! No thanks, what frees us from this matrix will be taken away from us? Forever? And what kind of mind--spirits will be inhabiting those cyborgs? Does not sound good. No no no. My spirit longs for its freedom, and cyborgs always want to become more human ( That's what Hollywood has been showing all the time, ha ha), so I realy don't get this.

[Bob]

I think one is missing an opportunity to verify objectively, what happens if one's "awareness of identity" can exist SIMULTANEOUSLY in a sensory aware machine PLUS the sensory aware meat body.

Seems to me if that which one thinks is "oneself" appears then to experience "identity" in both places simultaneously, that may help to define objectively the nature of beingness.

It may sound gross to some, but scientifically studies may help get away from superstition beliefs about life/soul/awareness/consciousness/beingness.

I think stop pushing for "becoming a cyborg" - what the "test" should do first is see what happens when SIMULTANEOUS consciousness (the neural clone) happens..

WHAT will happen then - bilocation? A sense of dual identity? To me getting the priorities straight in research would be appropriate, not trying to become a "Data" cybernetic organism, but clear up and understand objectively, without bias, awareness/consciousness/identity..

[white wizard]

I had a dream about this happening back in 2001. The problem is they will not be

able to transfer the human soul. Honestly it sounds like they are trying to make

a copy of the persons consciousness. In my dream, this technology led to the ending

of the human race. I remember it was far in the future many decades from 2001, but

the world i was shown post this technology was something close to a wasteland

like the one depicted in the movie the book of Eli. Either way that technology

is not good for spiritual evolution.

[amor]

Comments above are also my opinion and so I will remain silent, as I would be preaching to the choir.

[Tyy1907]

I think one is missing an opportunity to verify objectively, what happens if one's "awareness of identity" can exist SIMULTANEOUSLY in a sensory aware machine PLUS the sensory aware meat body.

Seems to me if that which one thinks is "oneself" appears then to experience "identity" in both places simultaneously, that may help to define objectively the nature of beingness.

It may sound gross to some, but scientifically studies may help get away from superstition beliefs about life/soul/awareness/consciousness/beingness.

I think stop pushing for "becoming a cyborg" - what the "test" should do first is see what happens when SIMULTANEOUS consciousness (the neural clone) happens..

WHAT will happen then - bilocation? A sense of dual identity? To me getting the priorities straight in research would be appropriate, not trying to become a "Data" cybernetic organism, but clear up and understand objectively, without bias, awareness/consciousness/identity..

I agree. I've always wondered why there has been no (mainstream) research done on studying the human soul. (I do think that it has been studied extensively in black projects however). Oh well I mean we are all just evolved apes right? :facepalm:

[Carmody]

China 'clone factory' scientist eyes human replication (http://phys.org/news/2015-12-china-clone-factory-scientist-eyes.html)


The Chinese scientist behind the world's biggest cloning factory has technology advanced enough to replicate humans, he told AFP, and is only holding off for fear of the public reaction.

Boyalife Group and its partners are building the giant plant in the northern Chinese port of Tianjin, where it is due to go into production within the next seven months and aims for an output of one million cloned cows a year by 2020.

Just change the word cow, with human, and you'll be there.

Recall or note that Chinese 'open science' cloning technology is probably, at a minimum, a few hundred years behind that of US black ops technology.

By the way, that is 2020, 4 years out from now.



Planet of the apes and the drug cartels, or I.G Farben:


But cattle are only the beginning of chief executive Xu Xiaochun's ambitions.

In the factory pipeline are also thoroughbred racehorses, as well as pet and police dogs, specialised in searching and sniffing.

Boyalife is already working with its South Korean partner Sooam and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to improve primate cloning capacity to create better test animals for disease research.

And it is a short biological step from monkeys to humans—potentially raising a host of moral and ethical controversies.

"The technology is already there," Xu said. "If this is allowed, I don't think there are other companies better than Boyalife that make better technology."

The firm does not currently engage in human cloning activities, Xu said, adding that it has to be "self-restrained" because of possible adverse reaction.

But social values can change, he pointed out, citing changing views of homosexuality and suggesting that in time humans could have more choices about their own reproduction.

"Unfortunately, currently, the only way to have a child is to have it be half its mum, half its dad," he said.

"Maybe in the future you have three choices instead of one," he went on. "You either have fifty-fifty, or you have a choice of having the genetics 100 percent from Daddy or 100 percent from Mummy. This is only a choice."

Xu, 44, went to university in Canada and the US, and has previously worked for US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, and in drug development.

[Carmody]

Basically put, who need artificial bodies........ when actual clones are already here.

The 3d film Avatar put that push/steering into the unconscious reality formation drive and directive of the human bubble of reality.

Full clones, not mechanical/organic hybrids.