A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”

A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”

  • March 13, 2018
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A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”

So yeah. Nectome is a preserve-your-brain-and-upload-it company.

Its chemical solution can keep a body intact for hundreds of years, maybe thousands, as a statue of frozen glass. The idea is that someday in the future scientists will scan your bricked brain and turn it into a computer simulation. That way, someone a lot like you, though not exactly you, will smell the flowers again in a data server somewhere.

Source: technologyreview.com

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