alt Hacker NewsMajor leap towards reanimation after death as mammal's brain preserved
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More of a digital copy scenario. The article says the process involves toxic chemicals that lock everything in place so the connectome can be examined. There's no known way to reverse the chemical process in the biological brain.
Here's a thought experiment. I offer you the chance to be put in a medically induced coma and shipped around the world to strangers you know nothing about. You don't know what economic, political, or moral system you'll awaken to. The only thing you know for sure is they, for some reason we're interested in receiving an unconscious person, no questions asked.
Do you take the deal? Do you sign your family up for it?
Would people want this? Imagine waking up to a world where 200 years has passed, everyone you knew is dead, everything you knew is history.
Absolutely not sounds like a be careful what you wish for Black Mirror episode where you wake up trapped in some simulation you can’t break free from but it’s ok because you signed on the dotted line to donate your mind and body to science.
Oh great! A new way to keep the tax base growing!
Herbert West requires extremely fresh specimens
Very cool
Are we even sure, that personality is stored solely in a brain? What if whole or other parts of body involved as well