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[Bruce Klein]

This topic will display the recent work of Alexander Bolonkin, a respected scientist and researcher from Russia who has moved to the United States where he works at the New Jersey Inst. of Tech: New Jersey Inst. of Tech.

*The word document of this text is also attached below. The text has been translated from Russian.

Dr. Bolonkin has granted ImmInst.org special permission to post his articles in their entirety. I believe that upon reading the articles you will understand why I have posted the complete set here. I would like to thank Prof. Bolonkin for his generosity - BJK




Alexander Bolonkin
Professor of New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, USA, 1996.


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Dear Bruce:
Thank you very much for your proposition. I have three articles in English and a lot of articles in Russian. I can send them to you.
Best Regards, Alexander Bolonkin

abolonkin@juno.com

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Alex,

Please feel free to forward your three English articles
at your earliest convenience.

Your participation in this project is greatly appreciated!

Bruce Klein


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Dear Alex,

Thank you very much for both of your contributions!

I've forwarded them to the editing team and we shall
be in touch with you.

Let me know if I can do anything for you.

Bruce Klein
Chairman, ImmInst.org

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Dear Bruce:
I am sending you the third article. That was translated by professional Russian translator and I would appreciate if you write me your opinion about this translation.

Thank you for your suggestion about help. I can excellent to translate from English to Russia, but my translation from Russia to English need English editor. If you can edit (correct) my English text, I would very grateful.

There are a lot of scientists and people in Russia who are interested immortality and I can help you to translate the main part your WEB page (“about us”) and main news to Russian and back.
Happy Christmas and Happy New Year.
Sincerely, Alex


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Dear Alex,

You are very generous!

I have read your article "Science, Soul, Paradise, and Artificial Intelligence".

It is a wonderful work. You and I have similar views about the future.

Concerning the translation quality, it is good, but not great. There
are a number of grammatical errors.

However, If we publish your work, we will correct these errors
and then send you a revised copy.

Thank you for your offer to translate from English to Russian. I will
remember this going forward.

The editing team will be in contact with you over the coming
months.

Warm Regards,

Bruce Klein
Chairman, ImmInst.org

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Dear Bruce:
I must relocate in New York in beginning of January and I will very engaged up to the end of January 2004.
You can find some information about Russian scientists in my WEB page:

http://Bolonkin.narod.ru

Best Regards,
Alexander Bolonkin

[Bruce Klein]

Alexander Bolonkin
Professor of New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, USA, Former Senior Researcher Space Industry of the USSR and NASA (Russian version is written on 1993, English translation on 1996).

Immortality and Electronic Civilization

Dr. Alexander Bolonkin is finishing a book with the same working title as above. Some of the ideas in this book are set forth below. The author writes about the danger which threatens humanity in the near future, approximately 20-30 years from now. This is not a worldwide nuclear war, a collision with comets, AIDS or some other ghastly disease that we may not even know may be lurking out there (think of the recent Ebola scare or the so-called "flesh-eating" virus). In each of these cases there is still hope that somebody will be saved and that life will be born anew, albeit in a misshapen form and in an inferior stage of development. But we cannot hope for salvation in the author's grim scenario. The danger he writes of will destroy all humanity and all biological life on Earth--and there is nothing we can do to prevent this! Should we be frightened by this? Is it good or evil for human civilization? Will people awake to find they are only a small step away from the Supreme Intellect, or in other words, to God? And what will be after us?

These and other questions are discussed in this article.

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Immortality-Engl-500K

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ELECTRONIC IMMORTALITY OF HUMANITY

Immortality is the most cherished dream and the biggest wish of any person. People seldom think about it while they are still young, healthy , and full of energy. But when they get some incurable disease or become old, then there is no bigger wish for them than to live longer, put off the inevitable end. And no matter what heavenly existence in the after-life is promised to them by religion, the vast majority of people want to stay and enjoy life here, on Earth, as long as possible.
Medicine and Immortality
A great many of doctors and scientists are currently working on the problems of health and longevity. Substantial means are spent on it, about 15-25% of all human labor and resources. There are certain achievements in this direction: we have created wonderful medications (e.g. antibiotics); conquered many diseases; learnt to transplant human organs; created an artificial heart, kidneys, lungs, limbs; learnt to apply physiological solutions directly into the blood stream, and to saturate blood with oxygen. We have gotten inside the most sacred organ - the human brain, even inside its cells. We can record their signals, we can agitate some parts of the brain by electric stimuli inducing a patient to experience certain sensations, images, and hallucinations.

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Article2 Science Soul AI in English for journal 6 26 03

Alexander Bolonkin
Science, Soul, Paradise, and Artificial Intelligence

Advantages of Electronic Being

It was shown in my previous articles about the artificial intelligence and human immortality that the issue of immortality can be solved fundamentally only with the help of changing a biological bubble of a human being to an artificial one. Such an immortal person made of chips and super strong materials (the e-man, as it was called in my articles) will have incredible advantages in comparison with common people. An e-man will need no food, no dwelling, no air, no sleep, no rest, no ecologically pure environment. Such a being will be able to travel into space, or walk on the sea floor with no aqualungs. His mental abilities and capacities will increase millions times. It will be possible to move such a person at a huge distance at a light speed. The information of one person like that could be transported to another planet with a laser and then placed in another body.

Such people will not be awkward robots made of steel. An artificial person will have an opportunity to choose his or her face, body, good skin. It will also be possible for them to reproduce themselves avoiding the periods of childhood, adolescence, as well as education. It will not be possible to destroy an artificial person with any kind of weapons, since it will be possible to copy the information of his mind and then keep it separately.

I have received tons of responses and comments since my first articles about this subject were published in 1994. Below I will try to answer the most important ones of them.

Human Soul

A lot of people, especially those, who believe in God, are certain that a biological human being has a soul. This is something that an artificial man will never have. No person can explain the meaning of the word “soul.” They just keep saying that a human soul is not material, and that it leaves a person’s body after death and flies either to paradise or to hell. Let’s try to analyze the notion of a soul from the scientific point of view.

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