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natasha vita-more: here is artists working with robotics on stage. they're communicating through their robotics in their dance forms. now, what they're thinking is being translated onto the screen on stage and their movements are being put into words. this is one example of an immersive environment where human identity is no longer strictly in the neocortex of the brain - if that's where you find it - but it's transferred through symbolic imagery onto the screen and its motor activity reflects the motor activity of the artist or dancer here. electronic arts and robotics have been augmenting the body for decades, that's the point

of this. i wanted to show you that augmenting body in the arts, especially in robotic arts and bio arts, has been going on since the 60s since electronics first interspersed with computers and roy ascott, dr roy ascott, is the leading theoretician in that field. here is stelarc, another artist who i work with from time to time he uses his body with robotics to emphasise the unnecessary element of the body but that the emotion is what means...

where his identity lies in emotion. he's worked on robotic faces that interpret his thoughts and speak to an audience through artificial intelligence, but not artificial general intelligence, that would be...that hasn't been developed yet. here's a description of a dna-sized nanotube that was put into the living fruit flies. now this dna nanotube actually could be looked at through a carbon microscope to identify what it would be like in a particular living organism. so this is the first example of a nanotechnology and nanomedicine put inside a living

entity. here's an example of a cancer patient's breast where the... this is biological enviromeno-nano technology. this is future use of enhancement into the body to look at the cells where nanosites would go into the body and clean up the cancer cells but leave the good cells. here's an example of a walking mechanism for someone who has the inability to walk and this is done as an industrial design. this is going into product design. this will enable the individual to get up and move out of the wheelchair and walk.

now this is leaning a little bit towards the whole body prosthetics which the goal of transformative human enhancement. these are examples of individuals who are using smart robotics as part of their augmentation. the next step here would be whole body augmentation. if your body were to cease to exist but your brain, your neocortex, is still existing, then the new definition of death comes in there and that part of the brain which is functioning would be put into a whole body prosthetic. so these are the first steps of that. here is an example of a work.

i put this in just because i found it quite interesting. this is a clock that is put on the wrist of an individual and the wrist actually tells the time by the person's energy in the body, the heart, the pumping of the heart is the battery for the clock. and this just fits flatly on the wrist. i found it quite interesting. but this is a stage where the body is being augmented in interesting ways that communicate about the environment around us, not just internally. this is an interesting prototype which hasn't been built yet but it's a computer inside a tooth, and it communicates with the individual

through the teeth. and this is, again, this is not a tremendously novel idea but this is the prototype which determine that particular concept. again, it hasn't been built. and this is brain on a chip which i really love, mapping brain cells, and this is going into the next stages of keeping the brain functioning past its apoptosis of cells that degenerate within the brain. and i think i'm up. thank you so much. i enjoyed it and i hope you did too. edward stein: quick question from the panel and then we'll

open for discussion. natasha vita-more: ah stay, okay. as long as it's not the philosopher. oh okay. i'm gonna get in trouble. nicholas agar: remember those at most one philosopher so it could be no philosophers. natasha vita-more: on the panel. (laughing) nicholas agar: yeah, okay. can you hear me or? cool. i was actually just one of the things that you said, obviously lots of ideas in that talk, but you said that you'd basically designed a prototype for an enhanced being. i'm just curious about what that is. i mean, we saw the picture. natashia vita-more: oh yes, i designed in 1997 a prototype called prima post-human. and i used that term because it was the most apt term

and i didn't it want to be cyborg. i wanted a disassociation from metal human cyborg i used my own body in the prototype because, again, i didn't want to be associated with the cyborg. i wanted to make it more human. mor familiar, more possible in our graphic narrative. i worked with marvin minsky with artifical intelligence, with rob rob freitas with nanotechnology michael rose with bioengineering. roy walford with gerontology, eric drexler with nanotechnology

max more with philosophy some others i can't...oh um...hans moravec with robotics and what i did is i came up with a schema idea if we were to enhance the body and extend it past the 122.3 years maximum what would we need to do with that body? so it is a conceptual design. it's drawn as a design, it's an interactive design and the hypothesis or the supposition there is that if these technologies were incorporated in the body then the lifespan could be continued. now it's also not only

a conceptual design, it's the makings for a whole body prosthetic. nicholas agar: so this sort of a prototype in a different sense from like... natasha vita-more: industrial design. nicholas agar: or basically some people would use the term, basically, if the prototype works then we're ready to go into mass production natasha vita-more: yes, it's a prototype that's waiting for its time. nicholas agar: right okay. natasha vita-more: the concept is there, it's been published, it's recorded. now i'm waiting i've been waiting for nanotechnology and artificial general intelligence and genetic engineering to come about. and i'm watching it slowly come about. so my hope is

that that can be realised. because it would be quite wonderful for me.