Kiev, Ukraine: 5th Forum on Immortalism

LET’S PUT APOCALYPSE ON THE BACKBURNER!

During the last weekend of year 2006 a couple of dozens of our most courageous followers of immortality, without waiting for everybody’s New Year effusions of wine, gathered together in Kyiv, at their traditional, already the 5th Immortology forum. At that, not only for chatting at a friendly tea-meeting or even at a champagne party but also for tracing a variety of pressing premium tasks for the next “piggy” year.

Immortalist forum participants

At the beginning, young Russian writer and scientist Vladimir Sukhikh told the guests of the forum about the essence of the information and about the newest methods of its transferring to allogenious bearers. In terms of substantial content his exciting one-and-half-hour speech briefly was as follows: “While using an outer computer-imitator, one can try to take out the information from the brain main points, and that, in principle, should automatically lead to widening of own self. Why? Indeed, because the neural network calculating out the integrated image, would also incorporate the additional network of the computer-imitator. And this, in turn, would let one receive the reflection of cerebration widened at the cost of the outer structure. In this case, a signal coming to the outer bearer would also bring “inside if” the data used during the calculation and taken from the memory. So, firstly, we would receive the immediate widening of the own self from the brain to the outer bearer at once, and, secondly, the elements of the memory used in each specific session of reflection would leave at the same place.

Consequently, the more active would the outer bearer be used for the widened reflection, the more data from the memory would transfer to it. As to hereafter, while using this new-created “secondary reflection”, appearingly, it would be already possible to achieve the complete transfer of own self to the outer abiogenous bearer!”

The next idem of the agenda was the speech of Kiev Institute for Scientific Prognoses (KISP) Director Emir Ashshursky who tried to analyse all existing long-distant social predictions comparing them with well known apocalyptic prophesies, which authorship, according to Biblical tradition, is associated with St. John the Evangelist. In particular, the lecturer mentioned clearly, that one should wait for the most mighty manifestations of the Apocalypse (as well as for the manifestations of the Armageddon - the decisive cruel battle between the powers of the Evil and the Good) only from above, and furthermore one should wait for that not earlier than in one and a half or two centuries, as nowadays there are not any objective background for that. However, on the other hand, almost muster at one accord subscribed to an opinion that already till the middle of the present century on our planet “something” should occur that will fall beyond so habitual, one would think, measured rhythm of everyday life. At that, as a result of this global “purgative” shift today Earth population will dwindle at least twice, and more, the cultural-social gradation will also change root and branch. The rule will change over to oligarchic transnational kindreds that will urgently pass a law that will prohibit whatever experiments with genomes of creatures. As to perspective plans in other fundamental branches of knowledge (energetics, robotic science, and also - by the way, not least - in various psi observations), apparently, they will develop only under the vigilant incessant control of the ruling oligarchy. At that, detailed thorough analysis shows that unlikely one could destroy such rough vertebrate totalitarian structure with some particularly “inner” influences. So, it turns out that, willy-nilly, this notorious, pained by popular yearnings, Apocalypse, in fact, should crash from heaven indeed. And even apart who it will be: aliens, that, maybe, aided the appearance of intelligent life on our planet once, or, let us say, futuroids, that, agreeably, will have accrued from the earthlings themselves by means of the newest evolution jump, the overwhelming majority of wretched outlaws will perceive them just as envoys of the Good for certain, that have come into a skirmish with really pestered transnational kindred of Rockfellers-Soroses-Abramovichs. However, the chief information lies in the fact that the victory of futuroids will inaugurate the beginning of a brand new epoch in the history of human (and, as like as not, cosmic) civilisation - the epoch of “joint-breasing Lem’s Geosolaris”.

Then, continuing the previous topic, the lecturer (we recall, he was the academician of MABET E.E.Ashshursky) would like to delineate deeper the main principals of such over-organism systems, but he was literally overwhelmed with numerous counterquestions. In particular, a guest from Russia Valeria Pride, who is an optimist in grain according to her life credo, contested fundamental inconvertibility of brewing planetary conflicts solution by force. In turn, world-famous native philosopher Sergey Borisovich Krymskiy put out a variety of fresh ideas in this connection. As a result, a substantial fierce dispute broke out instantly. Famous Ukrainian geneticist Vitaliy Kordyum and young fantasist Il’ya Novak also took part in it directly. And suddenly almost “for nothing” an ne plus ultra offending incident happened. In answer to unmotivated indiscreet behaviour of one of hazy guests the indignant academician S.B.Krymskiy abandoned the convention hall. Likewise practically at the same time, two extremely offbeat philosophers Sergey Kurbatov from Sumy and Kievan Semen Churyumov left the meeting, say, due to feeling of collegiate solidarity. And it became obvious that the other didn’t take care of lofty matters. So, it was decided go over from strategy to tactics: at the beginning the permanent author of artistic-biographic magazine “Personality” ("Lichnost‘“) (that, opportune, pays a lot of attention on its pages to distinguished inexhaustible topic of immortality) I.N.Sudak appeared with a presentation of this magazine’s several last issues; and then a member of coordination council of the Russian Transhumanist Movement V.V.Pride sincerely shared with the Ukrainian colleagues some of their own organisation secrets of the modern youth enculturation to progressive ideas of transhumanism.

However, the agenda of the forum was not exhausted at that point. On Sunday, all non-resident members of the forum were invited to a very interesting awareness-raising excursion to Kyiv Institute of Gerontology. They also visited closed joint stock company “Intermedprom” that elaborates new alternative ways of human’s organism rejuvenation.

So now, as one should reasonably believe, during the coming New Year’s night many of them will break upon their husbands and wives already unrecognisable young and charged with powerful vital energy for creative making during this fiery-piggy year. And that is what we wish to you, friends!

PRESS SERVICE OF KIEV SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE FOR FORECASTING