Technologies of the future, brought to perfection, are indistinguishable from magic.
The technologies described here will solve the problem of mortality not only for those living today, but for all people who have ever lived. A technological approach to the task that religions describe as resurrection of ancestors, is proposed to be implemented not through a miracle, but through engineering progress.
This can become a new meaning that can unite humanity in moving towards a common goal.
Exposed here
the action plan goes beyond ordinary ideas of what is possible. However
Today many things have already become reality that would have seemed to people centuries ago
absolutely incredible. The project is scientific and at the same time deeply humanistic.
Based on the ideas of Russian cosmist thinkers: Fedorov, Tsiolkovsky,
Vernadsky and others.
Speed technological changes are increasing. We today, like people from the past, it is also difficult to perceive and believe in the entire scale of transformations that will inevitably happen hundreds of years in the future: for all this there is no time yet the necessary system of interrelated concepts and even the words themselves in the language.
TWO MAIN STATEMENTS
The plan for the scientific and technological implementation of unlimited longevity for everyone, including those whom we consider dead today, is based on two key statements.
- First statement: someday, in hundreds or thousands of years, with the help of medical technologies of the future, people will be able not only to grow organs outside the body and transplant human organs, to cure absolutely all diseases, but will also be able to smoothly adjust the very biological age of the body and its appearance to the desired result. Aging of the human body will no longer be inevitable.
- Second statement: the very concepts of buried and finally dead are not exactly the same thing. Such a radical statement, of course, requires a very convincing explanation, which will be provided in the texts below. It involves a deep understanding of the differences between terms such as clinical death, biological death and final information death. By information death, speaking very briefly for now, we mean the loss of an array of data necessary to recreate an individual in the flesh - ideally exactly as at his last moment in life.
Even a schoolchild can understand the concept presented here, but it is the perception and acceptance of something truly new that can cause difficulties. According to our description, a person from the distant past
I could roughly imagine an airplane, but to believe that such
the design will be able to fly without even flapping its wings - for him this is
it would be like a story about a miracle.
PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS
The futuristic intentions outlined here are based on the works of Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov and his “Philosophy of the Common Cause”. More than a century ago, the founder of Russian Cosmism wrote that in the future, people of all nations would unite to realize the human ideal, made manifest in reality. In its essence, this is comparable to the construction of a metaphorical Paradise on Earth for all people. A Paradise encompassing mental, physical, and social health—or, to use more modern terminology, Fyodorov wrote of human-centricity and a positive image of the desired future.
Fedorov’s project philosophy (expressed in the language of that time), including that humanity should, with the help of science, master all the forces and atoms of nature and, through technological manipulation, return these atoms themselves to the proper relative arrangement in now decayed human bodies, in order to thus defeat death itself. Today we would say that we are talking about molecular assembly and nanotechnology.
Fedorov was widely known in Moscow. Among those who spoke enthusiastically about this philosopher were the most powerful minds and talents, the spiritual authorities of Russia: Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Vladimir Sergeevich Solovyov, Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, poet-thinker Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet, and others.
Fedorov in his text “The question of brotherhood, or kinship, about the reasons for the non-brotherly, unrelated, i.e. non-peaceful, state of the world and about the means to restore kinship” regretted that humanity spends its strength and resources not on victory over death, but on the production of weapons and luxury goods. He argued that efforts should be made for more beneficial purposes, namely, for people to gain practical immortality. The moral duty of the future omnipotent humanity, according to Fedorov, will be the subsequent work on resurrection of all previously dead people.
ETHICS OF RESURRECTION
One day the evolution of human ethics will reach the point of rethinking the attitude towards the dead. When this moment comes, the very thought that billions have died without realizing their aspirations will become unbearable, like the cry of a child being beaten by neighbors behind a wall. Of course, now, while the living are suffering, only an eccentric would think about the dead. But the question will inevitably arise when the basic problems of humanity are solved.
We will soon get to the engineering approaches to implementing the return of the dead, but first we should take a look at the whole meaning-forming puzzle of Russian cosmism from a suitable scale - big things are seen only from a distance.
Russian Cosmism holds within itself a way out of the current civilizational impasse. This way out lies through the adoption of grand long-term goals that provide simple and clear answers to the questions "what all this is for." Russian Cosmism is about those beyond-the-horizon goals which, by their very existence, are capable of correcting our direction of movement, becoming a guiding star for humanity. It is about goals endowed with meanings that can be understood and accepted even from the standpoint of an individual’s rational egoism, thereby transforming their worldview tance and behavior.
PRACTICAL GOALS OF THIS PHILOSOPHY AND IMAGE OF THE FUTURE
MISSION OF HUMANITY
It would not be amiss to recall that, according to modern ideas about astrophysics, after an incredibly large number of years the Sun will turn into a red giant, expand, and its size will reach the orbit of the Earth, subsequently consuming the planet. Much sooner, the oceans will boil completely and the Earth's atmosphere will be stripped away and blown into space by the solar wind. All living things and everything related to human activity on our planet will disappear unless we go into deep space. So, in any case, our path is there, to the stars, and the preservation and increase of earthly life, its salvation is the mission of humanity.
Humanity will simply have to build that very "Kingdom of Heaven," according to the Creator's desig, or without it, if no divine plan in its literal sense exists.
Fedorov, being a religious person, believed that religion mistook the parting prayer service for the deed itself (and the deed itself is the resurrection of ancestors). Christianity, in his opinion, was limited only to temple work, i.e. only a symbolic anticipation of the matter itself. Today, supporters of Russian cosmism may be atheists, but the philosophy of the “common cause” itself allows for the possibility of collaboration with God, if his incomprehensible plans involve us populating all that existing created diversity that astronomers observe through the Hubble telescope.
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION. WORLD-WORLD.
Russia may discover within its intellectual history and offer the world a project with the potential to be scaled across the entire globe—the very Fedorovian “common cause.”
To propose, including through BRICS and the SCO, a world founded upon genuine cooperation and mutual assistance between states, rather than on global unscrupulou competition and the bloody tugging of the existing blanket over oneself.
The true enemie of humanity, in this light, should be considered those who kindle hatred among us to serve their geopolitical designs or lesser ambitions. Those who incite conflict and manipulate, emerging as beneficiaries—to whatever degree—of the resulting human suffering, as well as those who assist them in sowing the seeds of hatred across their informational fields of falsehood.
The foundation of people's interests is only happiness and belonging to each other.
IMMORTALITY BY CONCEPTS
IMMORTALISM
From the Latin immortalitas - “immortality.” A belief system based on the desire to avoid death or delay it as much as possible. The goal of immortalism is to prolong the life of people and ultimately achieve the possibility of unlimited active longevity.
SUITALITY
A sense of predestination based on historical experience, which creates psychological mechanisms of reconciliation, methods of emotional protection, rituals and generic self-determination in the word “mortals”.
Today there is no social demand for a radical extension of life, while the cosmetics, beauty, and health industries have enormous momentum, and a thoughtful reader may notice a contradiction in this. The root cause is hidden in the culture itself, which is literally saturated with a suicide paradigm. From an early age, we are indirectly taught not only that death is inevitable, but also that it is even good,, and without it it would somehow be even bad. As a result, some people really don’t believe that they don’t want to die. Many of them sincerely say this: we want to die, but then. Sometimes even as if flaunting this deferred desire to go to the bioreactor.
IMMORTOPHOBICITY
If thanatism is an internal consent to death, a reconciliation with it, then immortophobia is rather a bashful silencing of interest in positive bodily immortality, an attempt to marginalize the topic, a refusal to take it seriously, and other forms of opposition among historians, culturologists, philosophers, figures of art.
At the same time, the integration of death into the picture of the world must necessarily be accompanied by the exclusion from
On the whole, such automatic objections have long since been analyzed in detail and may be considered untenable. Yet immortophobia itself exists not at the level of conscious thought, but is embedded within its foundational pre-settings; it is a property of our culture, and thus, by logic and rational argumentation alone, it cannot be overcome.
GENERAL REVIVAL
ENGINEERING APPROACHES
Resurrection, re-creation, rebirth, return to life - engineering and reformulation of the problem.
Today there are already several different and of course, quite controversial hypothetical approaches to the problem of resurrection deceased. Surely other concepts will appear in the future.
- Quantum modeling or reading information from the past about a certain area of space-time. Creation of an accurate atomic map of the entire human body for its subsequent reconstruction.
- Atom-by-atom assembly with perfect accuracy based on the latest obtained intravital information about the atomic map of the body. This may require reading information from structures where the entire history of the universe is recorded.
- Subsequent perfectly accurate physical or digital emulation reconstruction of the individual.
- The use of controlled gravity to organize an assemblage point in order to attract the atoms of a deceased individual scattered throughout the planet. Using a kind of gravitational magnet, mutually correctly arrange the atoms according to the received information matrix of the pre-terminal state of a person.
CONCEPT OF SUBSTITUTION
It would seem like an obvious fact - people are dying. However, it may turn out that this is not a fact at all, but only an appearance. An illusionist does the “impossible” not with the help of sorcery and magic, but through manipulation of attention: at the moment of the trick itself, people’s gaze is not directed to where the main event or substitution occurs. So at a funeral, perhaps people are looking at just in the wrong direction.
To make things easier to understand, let’s look at “substitution” using a practical example. How to save a person’s life in a situation of very imminent and inevitable death?
Simplified algorithm in two steps:
- First: immediately remove a person from this place and time and hide him in another. The concept of how this is even possible in principle to realize will be described further in the “Physics of Time” section.
- Second: place instead of a person an artificially created body that looks very similar to the original. The quality of the props must be of such a level that even a pathologist cannot suspect anything and correctly determine the cause of death.
The current level of development of biotechnology already today makes it possible to create complex tissue structures and implant them. There is a legal ban on human reproductive cloning in most countries, although growing a clone of a specific person, including an unconscious person (with anencephaly), is a feasible task today. For future generations, growing, printing on a 3D bioprinter, or otherwise creating a complex biological structure in the form of a human body, with an outwardly quite similar copy, but not possessing consciousness, seems to be a trivial task. It is not so important which technology will be used to create props - the main thing is that it is possible in principle.
Then to prevent death in the usual understanding of the meaning of these words, all that remains is to show the trick in time, i.e. carry out an instant replacement of a real person with a biological copy, very similar in appearance to the original.
Theoretically, it is possible to physically remove people a moment before their death into some future, where they can carry out resuscitation, health and other necessary measures, having in their arsenal a complex of very advanced medical and other technologies of the future.
EXEMPTIONS
In 1992, the film “Immortality Corporation” was made. A race car driver crashes at a competition while video cameras are recording, but moments before the gasoline inferno ignites, the doomed racer is transported into the future with the goal of stealing his body. In that future, supposedly there is a technology for rewriting the neural network of the brain from one personality to another, and the rich had a big shortage of healthy bodies - they were the ones who quietly stole bodies from the past.
The factual error in the plot is evident: even today, it appears entirely feasible to cultivate a clone devoid of higher brain functions, so that subsequently, a head—or more precisely, the integrated complex of the brain and spinal cord of an elderly person—could be ethically transplanted onto this body, with the aim of significantly extending their life. Such a task is perhaps within the reach of even modern surgery. The practical realization of time travel to retrieve individuals from the past, however, appears to be a far more improbable technological feat; for such an endeavor, the term "science fiction" remains more than appropriate today.
PHYSICS OF TIME
Can you, without looking anywhere, give a complete, comprehensive textual definition of the word “time”? Try it.
If not from the point of view of the psyche, but from the point of view of physics, time as such does not exist at all - there is a space-time continuum, and Albert Einstein formulated this indivisible connection quite a long time ago and in detail.
It is a recognized truth: the higher an object’s velocity, the slower its relative time flows, yet upon reaching the speed of light, time ceases altogether. This does not easily sit within our habitual logic, but from the perspective of an elementary particle of light—the photon—time does not physically exist. Once a photon is emitted, it may travel for hundreds of billions of years (our human years), yet for the photon itself, a zero interval of time elapses between emission and absorption. Time for the photon comes to a complete standstill due to its velocity, and since time does not exist for the photon, distances likewise do not exist. This is but a single example, accessible to most, to facilitate a realization of how much more intricately reality is structured than it appears in our everyday lives.
In addition to speed, being near objects of large mass, such as black holes, significantly affects the flow of time and can even stop it (from the point of view of an outside observer) as the object of observation approaches the event horizon.
Is it possible to create a controlled intertemporal teleport utilizing space-time wormholes—so-called “wormholes”—or perhaps some other physical principles? Speaking in the language of physics, it is possible today to substantiate theoretical methods for traveling into the past strictly according to science. This, of course, does not yet mean that practical time travel will be feasible for human beings specifically, but is it truly possible in principle to definitively and precisely dot every “i” in such a complex matter today? It is rather more likely that we can allow for the very possibility—an optimistic hypothesis—that such a technology of controlled intertemporal transfer will eventually emerge, even if it takes thousands of years. But if it does appear, it will change everything. The scale of that word “everything” is difficult to even fathom at present; however, it may touch everyone, including you personally.
To put it quite simply, a real “time machine” for journeying into the future already exists and functions through the relative difference in the rate of time's flow at different speeds. We cannot yet dispatch a living human being a century ahead (cryonics notwithstanding). However, the very principle by which this can be practically realized has long been experimentally confirmed, is widely known, and is even accounted for in the operation of your smartphone.
It is important to note that for the technical implementation of the idea of resurrection, the practical movement in time of the entire body from the past to the future is not the only possible option. There are fundamentally different approaches to the same problem. Perhaps it will be possible to somehow mathematically calculate the relative position of all atoms in the desired area of space-time, thus obtaining a cast, an exact diagram of the body of a particular person a moment before what is commonly called death. Then later it will be possible to implement the atomic assembly of absolutely the same person using nanotechnology or something similar.
Even in the case of a classical burial without extraction and substitution, when not merely biological but seemingly already informational death of the personality occurs due to the decomposition of the body, one cannot assert with absolute certainty that consciousness is lost irreversibly and ontologically, without any fundamental possibility of a subsequent erfectly precise reconstruction of the individual. Although, of course, the current consensus is to think otherwise.
But what is interesting is not only the engineering possibility of resurrections itself, but the consequences that follow from this - the new reality that this possibility can give rise to.
CONSEQUENCES
Even if suddenly at a certain stage in the future there will be no more people in the usual sense of the word, and the planet Earth will be inherited by robots with artificial intelligence or posthumans, transhumans or some other form of intelligence, then a kind of backup copy of “classical” humanity will remain in the past, and with it the opportunity to return it. Perhaps someone in the future will find this more interesting than recreating the human race anew.
It is enough to pull a few out of the past and give these people an ocean of time and a sum of technology, and then sooner or later they will pull someone else from the past to themselves, and after a while someone else, becoming for the newcomers a kind of guide to the new world, and they, in turn, will also become them. The result is mathematically an avalanche, increasing the number of “rescuers” in progression. Having an unlimited resource of time in the future and other unlimited resources of the universe, space expansion, nanotechnology, the economy of abundance, we get a potential shortage of those people who could be pulled out of the past and sheltered from death in the future. After which, perhaps, it will come to pets.
The future will be incredible, like no one expects it now. What is shown in science fiction films is only a small part, puzzle pieces of our common future.
APPLIED QUESTIONS
- Where to take and place so many people, is there enough space and resources for everyone?
- Will it be allowed to die "taken away" or will death become impossible in the future? How many years will people live like this? What if they get bored or bored?
- How much will “resurrection” cost in rubles, dollars or bitcoins, where will so much money come from for everyone? Will there also be a five-day work week?
- Is it possible to make everyone happy and is it necessary? Does it even make sense to design a utopia?
- Will only good people be saved? What is “good” and what are its criteria? What to do with criminals, suicides, and the mentally ill?
- Will there be laws, governments, police, prisons, the death penalty?
- Old children will be able to meet their young parents. Will family feelings and connections be preserved?
- What if war, aggression, violence and power struggles are an integral part of human nature?
- Paradise, God-manhood and the nature of miracles.
- The problem of the integrity of consciousness and the “soul”. Is a double sequential “resurrection” possible, but a parallel one? What about more than double?
All these inquiries pertain to the concept of the HyperWorld of the future. Preliminary versions of these answers can be found on a dedicated page of the site — questions and answers.
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TO HEAVEN OR TO HELL, THAT IS THE QUESTION
Resurrection can affect everyone, but in a different, unexpectedly negative way, so much so that it cannot be avoided.
Technological Hell is much easier to create than Heaven with all its complex balances and fine tunings. The beautiful far away can turn out differently, in such a way that the living in it will envy the dead, and in this case there will be no dead left at all. It is possible to avoid a negative scenario if everyone, together, prevents it from happening.
Even if you don’t go into the details of black engineering, it’s more comfortable to simply not know about this, but if it happens, the “ostriches” will also not escape the consequences, and this evil idea itself cannot be hidden in the sand, it will be reinvented many times, especially in a society poisoned by the poison of hatred of people who want punishment for their offenders. Whether you like it or not, you already know about the possible consequences, which means you are responsible for them. The best sedative for such cases is, of course, denial.
Man-made Hell is total power, unprecedented power, and it can look very tempting for the distorted, or in the terminology of the Strugatsky brothers, “geeks” , i.e. descended from the race of people.
Russian cosmism is more than just about “to be or not to be”, it’s about “Heaven or Hell”, where exactly we will have to go. With the second option, you will do anything and any number of times for just one chance, for the hope that you will be allowed to die someday finally.
The future is not predetermined, the future is not a tradition, the future is how we will act further. If we continue to choose sides instead of uniting, we can only hope, despite all the evidence, that the human race deserves better.
OTHER NOTES ABOUT IMPORTANT
RUSSIA
Russia is an unopened bud, a country shot many times, which with each of its rebirths manifests a new “special becoming” in the unpredictable anatomy of the newborn. It is a civilization of rupture, broken traditions, with an alternative, spasmodic method of development.
In the very its deep cultural code there still remains the archetype of pre-schism Orthodoxy, manifested later in the communities of the Old Believers. It was thanks to this ancient contribution to our cultural matrix that on the same vast territory, through the crumbling tsarist routine, the flaming red contours of the socialist peace.
Since the end of the eighties of the twentieth century, Russia was pregnant again, this time with perestroika, and it is still bearing something today.
You can’t understand this with your mind alone, you can’t measure it with a common yardstick...
One can only hope that this country will realize the true meaning of its faith, the depth of its ideas about justice and will embody them, showing social trust as a model for replication. Perhaps this is precisely its purpose, well, who else if not us?
The crippled northern flower eed to reveal itself as a bud, and it managed to take some of its roots through values in Soviet science fiction by Efremov, the Strugatsky brothers, Kir Bulychev and other authors.
About "Russianness"
Russian cosmism is not only about space and not only about Russians. The Russian school, consisting of thinkers of different nationalities, laid the main stone in the foundation of cosmism - the primacy here is obvious. Perhaps the time is approaching to share this belief system with the world without putting yourself front and center. On the terms of the full participation of each state and people in the “common cause” and in common cooperation, including possibly under the auspices of BRICS. At the same time, without dissolving ourselves and without dissolving other cultures in the common cauldron of a new type of globalization.
In the very distant future, the noosphere, like the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, does not know boundaries and does not want to know. The beautiful is far away, in the united human family, universal planetary brotherhood and sisterhood. One world, one path, and this path ultimately to the stars. The scale of Fedorov’s ideas, his philosophy of a common task open up prospects thanks to which different peoples, their cultures and even entire eras will be able to jointly continue this incredible and endless symphony - the symphony of life in a community of common destiny.
About Russian cosmism
Russian Cosmism is a worldview, a projective philosophy aimed at the transformation of reality. A singular perspective on this world, on humanity, and on the desired future. These and imilar definitions are generally accurate, yet clearly incomplete and far from exhaustive.
Russian cosmism is a whole continent of ideas about man, his role in the universe, the relationship between the macrocosm and the microcosm. This is a multinational idea. A secular rethinking of religious aspirations. A guiding star for citizens of space, setting significant development guidelines and ways to achieve these guidelines - a navigator through thorns to the stars.
Russian cosmism is also the belief that people will be able to redirect part of their attention away from the trough of consumption and turn their gaze to the heavens. The hope that we are more than just domesticated primates. This is a new ontology, magic that can stop death and global dehumanization. This is about the future, about our planetary cosmic destiny. A project whose foundation was laid in the works of such representatives of Russian cosmism as Soloviev, Berdyaev, Muravyov, Setnitsky, Florensky, Umov, Chizhevsky.
HyperWorld of the future
The concept “hyperworld” does not belong to the list of textbook ideas of Russian cosmists, it can be perceived as an afterword to them or as just a fantasy on the topic of resurrection logistics. Although in Fedorov’s text one can find the corresponding intentions: “the human race, through the regulation of the heavenly worlds, will itself become heavenly powers, the ruling worlds of the Universe.”
The restoration of all “dead” is supposed to be carried out not simultaneously, but gradually, step by step, as opportunities arise and full preparedness for potential problems and risks.
Throughout various historical epochs, humanity has held vastly different norms of behavior and conceptions of morality, which suggests the necessity of creating familiar historical reconstructions for the period of their adaptation to a renewed reality. The restored will need to be granted a kind of transitional period and adaptive spaces. Extracting, for instance, Vikings directly into a society governed by modern norms is not the best of ideas. From the perspective of the resurrected, everything will transpire in a manner closer to what is written in the great books they revere, such as the Bible; thus, a new heaven and a new earth may be observed in the most literal sense—that is, on another planet. This is the “highest idea of existence,” as Dostoevsky called it: the idea of immortality, the idea of the transfiguration of an imperfect, mortal, and suffering being into the Kingdom of God.
Each reborn will receive a starting reality that is closest to his desires, aspirations and faith. In addition, he will have the opportunity to migrate between such reconstruction worlds according to a special protocol, taking into account restrictions on worldview and culture, which will gradually transform for everyone living in any of the reconstructed worlds.
The hyperworld is a collection of places, planets and, possibly, virtual territories. On some of which even militant individuals will have the opportunity to implement aggression and similar under controlled conditions. Some Scandinavians will even be able to do this after a stay in Valhalla, and the company of the god Odin. However, they are all within individual adaptation program they learn that the world they are in is only one of the many particles of the great totality.
Hyperworld is the idea of creating historical reconstructions or simulations as a multitude of individual worlds with a unified system of regulation and transit between them. All these worlds, with their scenarios, adaptation programs, and other forms of regulation, humanity will build themselve; they will personally harmonize the rules within them, design balances and counterweights, correct errors discovered in the process, and a place there will be offered to every person who has ever lived.
Man Made Paradise
Belief in the possibility of an earthly Paradise is, first of all, faith in people’s ability for positive self-organization. This is the idea that everyone is born for happiness, that all people are born for happiness, and pain when this is not the case.
The red idea, the idea of a built Paradise, is an ancient dream of humanity, suffered through generations. It was responded to by millions in different historical periods and under different circumstances.
Heaven on Earth is a space for opportunities, such a habitat where people created by circumstances will be given the opportunity to show the best of their traits and qualities, and not the worst of them. Heaven will include primarily mental, physical and social health.
The capabilities of biotechnology and cognitive technologies will be used to maintain the physical and emotional youth of people. Including through the best hormonal homeostasis and maintaining all other indicators of physical and mental functioning at an ideal level. This will give tone, energy, mood - create conditions under which you would always want and be able to.
A related concept is the economy of abundance, achieved through technology. It is easier for people to show their best qualities, rather than their worst, when the system does not try to exploit and squeeze out all the vital juices from them, as is often the case in our reality today.
The very idea that the current state of affairs, which existed to an even greater extent in the past, will forever remain in the future, no matter what nanotechnology, AI-robotics connections, new energy sources and similar improvements are implemented, is erroneous.
All of us, people, are small cells of one huge essence, and the great things that it creates today will certainly become of a universal scale.
What school or life lesson taught us how to dream? Those who will be born after us need a clear horizon, real dreams, real love, real freedom of thought and stars as a basic necessity.
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