Saturday, March 17, 2018

Brain Back-up

Neuroscientists devise scheme for mind-uploading centuries in the future
March 14, 2018

Representative electron micrograph of white matter region in cryopreserved pig brain (credit: Brain Preservation Foundation) 
But first, they have to kill you with embalming fluid, inject antifreeze, and keep your brain at -130 degrees C
In a scenario (almost) right out of the show Altered Carbon, two researchers — Robert McIntyre, an MIT graduate, and Gregory M. Fahy, PhD., 21st Century Medicine (21CM) Chief Scientific Officer, have developed a method for scanning a preserved brain’s connectome (the 150 trillion microscopic synaptic connections presumed to encode all of a person’s knowledge). That … more…

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