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<\/p>\nA Silicon Valley billionaire is paying $10,000 to be killed so that his brain can be preserved in the hope that it will one day be\u00a0uploaded to a computer\u00a0so he can live on digitally forever.<\/p>\n
Sam Altman, 32, a\u00a0tech entrepreneur, has paid to join a waiting list at Nectome \u2014 a start-up that promises to preserve your brain so it can – hopefully, one day – upload it into a computer to grant your consciousness eternal life.<\/p>\n
And the method, the company can confidently assure, is “100% fatal”.<\/p>\n
But Mr Altman, who co-created the Y Combinator program which funds start-up companies, told\u00a0MIT Technology Review\u00a0that he’s confident minds will be digitized in his lifetime.<\/p>\n
\u201cI assume my brain will be uploaded to the cloud,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
And he is not alone. Twenty four other people have also paid to join a waiting list at Nectome.<\/p>\n
The company essentially proposes to embalm your brain – while you are still alive – with the intention of uploading it to a computer if or when technology permits, so that you can live digitally forever.<\/p>\n
Netcome’s chemical solution can preserve a body for hundreds or potentially thousands of years so one day scientists may scan your stored brain so it can be reborn as a computer simulation.<\/p>\n
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But because the process requires ‘fresh brains’ the embalming chemicals need to be pumped into the client while they are still alive – effectively killing them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe user experience will be identical to physician-assisted suicide,\u201d Nectome\u2019s co-founder Robert McIntyre, a computer scientist, said.<\/p>\n
Nectome\u2019s storage service is not for sale yet and there is still no evidence that memories remain, or can be extricated from dead tissue.<\/p>\n
But the company already has a waiting list of future clients, ready to jump on the opportunity if or when the procedure becomes legal.<\/p>\n
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And it may be available sooner than you may think. Medically assisted suicide is legal in five US states and Nectome has already secured a large federal grant for its research.<\/p>\n
It is collaborating with Edward Boyden, a top neuroscientist at MIT, and it has already preserved a pig\u2019s brain so well that every synapse inside it could be seen with an electron microscope – a scientific breakthrough that won it an $80,000 prize.<\/p>\n
Netcome said that the process would involve hooking up a living customer to a machine which would pump them full of Nectome\u2019s embalming chemicals.<\/p>\n
The company believes the process could particularly appeal to people with terminal illnesses.<\/p>\n
Other US-based companies already offer cryogenic freezing, which preserve bodies after death in liquid nitrogen in the hope that future advances in medicine and technology will allow them to be reborn.<\/p>\n
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Source: Mirro UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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