BLOGPOST 5: Avatar Immortality Project

The first time I watched the movie Avatar was when I was in third year high school. At first, I didn't understand the flow of the story because I was more preoccupied in admiring the characters. The blue-skinned creatures with golden eyes was jaw-dropping especially when you're watching it in the cinema. I only watched it twice and when I searched Google regarding my topic, immortality, an Avatar Immortality Project article caught my eye. I had to research a movie review in order to remember what the plot was of the said movie.

I found a movie review of "Avatar" written by Roger Ebert. Reading the article made me remember the time I was actually watching the movie. The blue-skinned giants called Na'vi, the world called Pandora and the soldier guy named Jake Sully.

He wrote in his movie review that the movie Avatar was made by the famous movie director

named James Cameron. Some of his great works are True Lies, Piranha, Terminator, and also the most epic movie of all time, Titanic. The story of Avatar was set in the year 2154 and it involves an American soldier named Jake Sully. When his brother is killed in a robbery, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge's intentions of driving off the native humanoid "Na'vi" in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na'vi people with the use of an "avatar" identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand - and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora.

Now, what does it have to do with the Avatar Immortality Project? In the Avatar movie, the avatars are the exact replicas of the natives of Pandora. They are controlled by the US soldiers by being wired up in a trance-like state in their base ship. That is exactly the concept of the Avatar Immortality Project.

Brain uploading is exactly the subject matter in the article entitled "Avatar Project Aims For Human Immortality by 2045" written by Dario Borghino. It talks about obtaining immortality by the year 2045.

It is stated in the article that an old media entrepreneur named Dmitry Itskov aimed to transplant a human brain in a robot body in 10 years time. A further explanation of this could be found on Dmitry Iskov: Welcome to the Global Future 2045 video How is that even possible? It is said in the article that Dmitry is going to develop four avatars within 20 years. The Avatar A is said to be the development of robots that will be controlled by the human mind. That sounds like the Avatar movie itself. The Avatar B will be the one that can host a flesh and blood human brain via surgical transplant. Down to the Avatar C, the "uploading" of the contents of the human brain will be transferred to a robot and with that, the immortality of body is achieved. On the last avatar, the most interesting phenomena was stated by Dmitry, himself. On the Avatar D, the so-called robots will be turned into holograms.

In my opinion, the concept of the said project is quite fascinating, yet, terrifying. With the said avatars, aren't we going to make our own cousins or something? Or in a darker picture, our potential new enemies that may soon take over us? Science is indeed advancing too fast. Before, a cough or cold could kill a human but because of science, different assortment of medicines are made. How about the issue of immortality? What if one day, we wake up and find ourselves "robotized"?