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BIG HOPES. “Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, plans to live to be 120. Compared with some other tech billionaires, he doesn’t seem particularly ambitious. Dmitry Itskov, the “godfather” of the Russian Internet, says his goal is to live to 10,000; Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, finds the notion of accepting mortality “incomprehensible,” and Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, hopes to someday “cure death.” https://lnkd.in/dnE5GNK View in LinkedIn

PROJECT AVATAR. "By 2025, Itskov expects an “autonomous life-support system for the human brain linked to a robot." In other words, they'll have the tech for implanting the human brain into the robot. By 2035, a human should be able to upload their brain into a robot, and by 2045 our bodies will be replaced with holograms. When this happens, Itskov says we will become "a new species.” https://lnkd.in/dyCbwDs View in LinkedIn

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CONTROLLING FATE. “We are facing the time where the unconscious evolution period has almost finished, and we come to the new era, a new period of controlled evolution.” https://lnkd.in/dyCbwDs View in LinkedIn

2045 INITIATIVE GOALS. "To create an international research center for cybernetic immortality to advance practical implementations of the main technical project – the creation of the artificial body and the preparation for subsequent transfer of individual human consciousness to such a body.” http://2045.com/manifest/ View in LinkedIn

“The Mind as the Software of the Brain.” https://lnkd.in/dVrhMkP View in LinkedIn

SWARM NATURE OF INTELLIGENCE. “The cognitive science definition or explication of intelligence is analogous to this explication of multiplication. Intelligent capacities are understood via decomposition into a network of less intelligent capacities, ultimately grounded in totally mechanical capacities executed by primitive processors.” https://lnkd.in/dVrhMkP View in LinkedIn

EXPECT DISAGREEMENT. "There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.” https://lnkd.in/dZqxxrU View in LinkedIn

CONSCIOUSNESS HYPOTHESIS. A "highly controversial suggestion by Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff that quantum behaviour of protein filaments called microtubules is responsible for the computational capability of the human mind." https://lnkd.in/eJrZRx4 View in LinkedIn

“PENROSE argues that human consciousness is non-algorithmic, and thus is not capable of being modeled by a conventional Turing machine-type of digital computer. Penrose hypothesizes that quantum mechanics plays an essential role in the understanding of human consciousness. The collapse of the quantum wavefunction is seen as playing an important role in brain function.” https://lnkd.in/dSPWCvA View in LinkedIn