Immortality - A Soon To Be Reality?

Recently a lot of media attention has been paid to apparently wild claims of some scientists regarding possible human immortality. These researchers claim that with new biotechnological advances the human aging could be defeated in the near future, and that we could stay healthy and vigorous for many more years.

Is it simply hype and wishful thinking or are we on the verge of possibly the greatest bio technological evolutionary step?

Perhaps there just  may be something here, that deserves careful consideration for possible serious investments and philanthropic support?
In this initiative we suggest to establish a network of qualified impartial scientists who will carefully review and evaluate the existing claims and supporting evidence for feasibility of life-extension. A team of experts will study not only the media reports, but also the original scientific publications and evaluate their scientific merit.

As we are right now, our “consciousness”, our sense of self, is of a physical body, with a cellular structure. With difficult psychological work on oneself, one may be able to create a second body, called a “soul” by various religions, that can live much, much longer than the physical body. We are not given a soul when we are born, it must be created BY THE PERSON who is to have one. The soul has a molecular nature, rather than cellular. It can go anywhere air can go, including, obviously, inside other bodies, since all animal life forms breathe. Thus, we could live other peoples lives by entering into their physical body.

With continued work on oneself, one might eventually develop a body with an electronic structure to it, called a “spirit” by various religions. An electronic body is essentially a body of light. Since light actually IS indestructable, omnipresent and eternal, so would a persons spirit. Of course, this means ones sense of self is a part of that body. [A cellular body is basically a body of water. A soul is basically a body of air (“I come like water and like the wind I go” Omar Khayyam). They have different venues. A body of light can leave the galaxy.

We can know, to a certain extent, what type of work we need to do to grow a soul. But the creation of a spirit is much more subtle and little is known. The ideas are so outside of our experience that they appear magical or religious to ordinary thinking.

Raymond Kurzweil is one of the most prolific inventors and futurists; he’s the one who developed text to speech synthesis and a synthesizer that develops and even creates poetry, among others. He has also predicted new technologies that would appear and some directions that our society would take, and he got it right.
Now, the 61 year old claims that considering the rate at which our understanding of our genes and nanotechnology is increasing, scientists should be able to replace many (if not all) of our vital organs in approximately 20 years from now. When confronted and asked if that’s not a bit of wishful thinking, he replied that neural implants and artificial pancreases already exist, and the distance is not as big as it seems.

Here’s what he said:
“I and many other scientists now believe that in around 20 years we will have the means to reprogramme our bodies’ stone-age software so we can halt, then reverse, ageing. Then nanotechnology will let us live for ever. Ultimately, nanobots will replace blood cells and do their work thousands of times more effectively.
Within 25 years we will be able to do an Olympic sprint for 15 minutes without taking a breath, or go scuba-diving for four hours without oxygen. Heart-attack victims – who haven’t taken advantage of widely available bionic hearts – will calmly drive to the doctors for a minor operation as their blood bots keep them alive.
Nanotechnology will extend our mental capacities to such an extent we will be able to write books within minutes. If we want to go into virtual-reality mode, nanobots will shut down brain signals and take us wherever we want to go. Virtual sex will become commonplace. And in our daily lives, hologram like figures will pop in our brain to explain what is happening. So we can look forward to a world where humans become cyborgs, with artificial limbs and organs.”

Read the Complete Interview with Raymond Kurzweil and how he sees immortality to be a reality  Here