Brain Preservation Technique Developed for Potential Future Mind Reconstruction
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Summary
A research company called Nectome has developed a technique to preserve an entire mammalian brain with minimal damage, aiming to eventually reconstruct the mind of the person it belonged to. The company plans to offer this service to terminally ill people who would donate their brain and body for scientific research, with the goal of keeping them preserved indefinitely until future technology can revive their consciousness. The article discusses the ethical and scientific implications of this brain preservation approach.
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But what we are offering, as a company, is for their body and brain to be kept, essentially indefinitely, in the hope that someday technology will be able to reconstruct their mind
An entire mammalian brain has been successfully preserved using a technique that will now be offered to people who are terminally ill
The intention is to preserve all the neural information thought necessary to one day reconstruct the mind of the person it once belonged to
A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place and minimal damage. Some believe the same could be done with the brains of people with a terminal illness, so their mind can be reconstructed and they can "continue with their life"
