{"id":269,"date":"2015-07-10T23:42:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T23:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/?p=254951"},"modified":"2015-07-11T00:08:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T00:08:26","slug":"selfless-movie-features-uploading-to-an-existing-human-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2015\/07\/10\/selfless-movie-features-uploading-to-an-existing-human-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Self\/Less movie features uploading &hellip; to an existing human body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mc4sz6neHDs\" width=\"566\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Self\/Less<\/em>, a science-fiction thriller to be released in the U.S. today, July 10, 2015, Damian Hale, an extremely wealthy aristocrat (<a title=\"Ben Kingsley\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Kingsley\">Ben Kingsley<\/a>) dying from cancer, undergoes a $250 million radical medical procedure at a lab called Phoenix Biogenic in Manhattan to have his consciousness <a title=\"Mind uploading\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mind_uploading\">transferred<\/a> into the body of a healthy young man (<a title=\"Ryan Reynolds\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ryan_Reynolds\">Ryan Reynolds<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_256356\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 579px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><img class=\" wp-image-256356\" title=\"consciousness transfer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/consciousness-transfer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"240\" \/><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">(credit: Hilary Bronwyn Gayle \/ Gramercy Pictures)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body\u2019s origin &#8212; he has flashbacks in a dream of a former life as Mark &#8212; he discovers the body was not\u00a0grown in a laboratory, as promised, and that the &#8220;organization&#8221; he bought the body from will kill to protect its investment. To make matters worse, he faces the threat of losing control of the body he now possesses and its original owner&#8217;s consciousness resurfacing, which will erase his mind in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, at one point, Mark looks up the scientist who did the transfer on Wikipedia, and finds that he was the &#8220;godfather of transhumanism.&#8221; &#8220;What many summer movie-goers might not realize is that\u00a0<em>Self\/less<\/em>\u00a0is loosely based on a real-life project called the <a href=\"http:\/\/2045.com\/news\/33999.html\">2045 Initiative<\/a>, which is being spearheaded by Dmitry Itskov, a Russian multi-millionaire, <em>Ars Technica<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/the-multiverse\/2015\/07\/nothing-complicated-about-consciousness-transfer-in-summer-movie-selfless\/\" >suggests<\/a>. But the theme has also been explored in a number of movies, ranging from <em>Metropolis<\/em> to <em>The Sixth Day<\/em>, <em>Avatar<\/em>, and <em>The Age of Ultron<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_256363\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 579px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><img class=\" wp-image-256363\" title=\"2045 Avatar project\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/2045-Avatar-project.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"444\" \/><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">(credit: 2045 Strategic Social Initiative)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Self\/Less, a science-fiction thriller to be released in the U.S. today, July 10, 2015, Damian Hale, an extremely wealthy aristocrat (Ben Kingsley) dying from cancer, undergoes a $250 million radical medical procedure at a lab called Phoenix Biogenic in Manhattan to have his consciousness transferred into the body of a healthy young man (Ryan [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,56,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cognitive-scienceneuroscience","category-entertainmentnew-media","category-human-enhancement","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}