We are sincerely convinced that the digitization of consciousness is not only possible by means of modern technologies, but also extremely useful. Of course, it is impossible to copy a complete picture of consciousness, but it is possible to fix key parameters, and, perhaps, even more importantly, digital traces of consciousness. A reasonable question may arise - why do we need digital footprints? This will be answered by the next section - the quantum nature of consciousness.
It is the latest ideas about physics that indicate that we have in our heads not just a computer, but a quantum computer. And each electrical impulse, each - exists not only in our world, but also in countless parallel Universes. Information once born never disappears anywhere. And sooner or later, we will be able to learn how to extract it from this Universal Data Bank. But in order to extract the consciousnesses of creatures dear to us from this bank, we need a search request to this bank. And the key to this request will be the digital traces of consciousness that we have collected.
We are firmly convinced that the future of science will first give rise to robotic completely artificial organisms, where consciousness can be uploaded from the outside, then cybernetic organisms as a combination of a machine and a living being, which will have all the most important properties of a living being, but have the power and strength of immortal machines.
He dreamed of resurrecting people, not wanting to come to terms with the death of even one person. With the help of science, he intended to collect scattered molecules and atoms in order to "fold them into the bodies of the fathers."
Fedorov gave science a place next to art and religion in the common cause of uniting mankind, including the dead, who should be reunited with the living in the future.
The essence of Orthodoxy lies in the duty of resurrection.
It is not for nothing that such an important place is occupied by problems related to overcoming illness and death and achieving immortality.
The conscious control of evolution, the highest ideal of the spiritualization of the world, is revealed by Fedorov in a consistent chain of tasks: this is the regulation of "meteoric", cosmic phenomena; the transformation of the spontaneously destructive course of natural forces into a consciously directed one; creation of a new type of organization of society - "psychocracy" based on filial, kindred consciousness; work on overcoming death, the transformation of the physical nature of man; the endless creativity of immortal life in the universe. To fulfill this grandiose goal, the Russian thinker calls for universal knowledge, experience and labor within the limits of the real world, real means and possibilities, with the sure premise that these limits will gradually expand, reaching what still seems unreal and wonderful.
If we return to Fedorov’s ideas, then the creativity of life itself, the “organic” progress to which he calls, this is the expansion of the intellect due to the awakened and developed resources of intuition, the conscious mastery of that “organ-creation” that is available to the “creating camp” of nature itself on levels of instinct. Such progress is driven by the dream of immortality, which in the writings of Fedorov has acquired achievable outlines: for the first time in history, a realistic path of experimental knowledge, transformation of the laws of nature, universal labor was proposed - the path leading to victory over death.
“Technical man” will be replaced by “man flying”: “a higher, i.e. solar, man will enlighten his body to the specific gravity of air ... “for this, he will work out his body into a tubular body, i.e. air, moreover, in ethereal, i.e., the lightest body.” As a result of a transformative action directed at one's own nature, a person will, as it were, throw off his current heavy bodily shell and turn into an immortal spiritual being.
But already in Fedorov, the task of turning nutrition into "a consciously creative process - the conversion by a person of elementary, cosmic substances into mineral, then plant and, finally, living tissues" was not only set, but also comprehended as one of the directions in the real mastery of immortality by a person. nature, as one of the conditions for him to acquire the "cause of himself." Tsiolkovsky also wrote about the future man, "an animal of the cosmos", directly assimilating the sun's rays and elemental substances of the environment in his diet and being able to be immortal.
In humans, highly differentiated nerve cells, unlike other cells in his body, do not change from birth to death. Kuprevich is sure that new psychotherapeutic methods will appear that can protect the nervous system from wear and tear and regenerate it. If there is a programmed “death virus”, as some scientists believe, then it can be replaced by an “immortality virus”, which will penetrate into every cell of the body, rejuvenating it or making it immortal. There are many theories and approaches, but one thing is clear: in order to defeat death, it is necessary to discover the “root cause of death”, to understand the basic mechanisms of life that can be regulated in the right direction.
Kuprevich firmly believes that the era of centenarians will come, and then practically immortal people. It is still difficult to imagine what benefits the victory over old age and death will bring to mankind.
This idea of Fedorov is the pinnacle of the aspirations of Russian cosmism. Man's participation in the divine-human process of salvation extends here to what, in the orthodox consciousness, is the exclusive privilege of the Creator. Fedorov himself understood his teaching as the completion of the Christian Good News: he revealed the New Testament, the “logos” of Christianity, as the program of the Cause for the transformation of the natural mortal world into a resurrected and immortal order of being. The main conviction of the thinker is that the divine will acts through a person as a rationally free being, through a single cosyoric totality of humanity, and the main task of a person at the same time is to become an active instrument of the will of the “God of the fathers not of the dead, but of the living.”
In putting forward by the Russian thinker the idea of resurrection, and not just personal immortality, there is a deeply moral turn in his teaching, which affirms our duty to past generations, our fathers and mothers, whom we voluntarily or involuntarily displace from the stage of life.
Birth, sexual schism, eros, death are inseparably linked, and the claim to immortal life requires its own consistent logic. Fedorov introduced the task of overcoming blind sexual birth, the transformation of erotic energy into the plan of transformative-cosmic practice, the plan for building a transformed order of being. The solution of such a problem is the most obscure and concretely difficult to imagine area of possible future work on the acquisition of a person's creative self-creation. The thinker put it only in the most general form. Resurrection is a fundamental "anti-natural" act, the opposite of birth.
To forget the fathers, one's duty to them, to indulge in the enjoyment of immortality on the bones and ashes of the generations that prepared this happiness with hard work and suffering, will mean the moral savagery of the supposed future "Olympians". “A person who has reached the highest perfection cannot accept such an unworthy gift. If he is not able to wrest from death all its prey, he would rather give up immortality.
For immortality is possible only under the condition of overcoming the isolation of our Earth from space and with the simultaneous regulation of cosmic phenomena: “Each isolated world, due to its limitations (means of life. - S.S.), cannot have immortal beings.” Tsiolkovsky confirms this fundamental idea about the interconnectedness and interdependence of the two global victories of mankind: over space and time. The arena of practically immortal life is only the cosmos, infinite and inexhaustible in its energy and material resources. Exactly an exit into space can ensure the maintenance of an indefinitely long life of the organism, but, on the contrary, only long-lived and immortal creatures with a radically transformed organism will be able to survive in the most incredible extraterrestrial environments, master and transform the Universe.
He wrote about his confidence that “in the distant future, the possibility of omnipotence in the full sense of the word opens up for mankind, up to communication with other worlds, immortality, the resurrection of those who lived before, and even the creation of new planets and planetary systems”
Thinking is the most amazing phenomenon of all that we observe in the world around us.
We have yet to be able to recreate it in any way. That is, to create AI (artificial intelligence).
But this task is the most important in the history of science.
Which is simpler - he recorded his consciousness on a removable disk or in general - in a laser beam - sent it to other worlds or transferred it to another medium. What is a body? Decay. What is mind? Infinity.
The issue of transferring the mind and creating to digital media has been haunting minds, perhaps, since the invention of the first calculators. The pioneer of the very concept of "digital immortality" in science fiction can be considered Stanislav Lem with his collection of philosophical essays "Dialogues", where in the sixth chapter, in the course of reasoning, he comes to the idea of a possible loading of human consciousness on a "brain prosthesis".
Excursion to the present: British futurist Ian Pearson, predicting the prospects for the digitalization of consciousness, said that even today the Playstation gaming system is capable of operating at the level of 1% of the capabilities of the human brain. And there are growth prospects. By the way, Pearson today is the most famous futurist with 85% of his forecasts hitting the bull's-eye. Ask, I recommend. The topic of digitization of the mind and the prospect of eternal life on electronic media received a new surge with the start of such a genre as LitRPG - with the help of a special capsule, the player's consciousness is immersed in the virtual world. And the first question that excites this consciousness is, should I not stay here forever?
Stanislav Lem - "The Star Diaries of Iyon Tikhokho", the story "The Fourteenth Journey". Richard Morgan - "Altered Carbon" - about the series based on this novel and other films on the theme of immortality, a review will soon be released on the "Kinoshnik" channel - come in, it will be interesting. Sergey Lukyanenko - "Line of Dreams" - the novel in 1996 was recognized as the best work of heroic and adventure fiction at the Sword of Rumata award
V. Vernadsky about death: “Undoubtedly, the hardest, most painful, most tragic thing in our life is the impossibility of our mind and feelings to come to terms with personal destruction, with the absence of personal immortality,” he wrote to his wife in 1889. And he added that religious customs often reflect a person's desire to overcome the longing caused by a premonition of the inevitability of parting with being. In his diary, he noted earlier: "I agree that, perhaps, there are certain pleasures delivered by faith, and a person who sincerely believes and has hope in the afterlife has some pleasure that I cannot have."
In the human brain (including the spinal cord and the entire nervous system) there are 86 billion neurons, forming about 100 trillion neural connections - and the structure they form is unique in each case. If scientists learn how to build computer models that reproduce these connections in great detail, they can be transferred from a deteriorating organism to a new medium. About how scientists are trying to make a person immortal by taking a digital copy from the brain, Phil Jackle, a cognitive neuroscientist from Norway, spoke in the Aeon magazine.
