One step toward ghost in the shell..... Is it "living" or being "simulated"? Is it being trapped in a digital hell that you can never escape?
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>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.
“They would need to donate their brain and body for scientific research,” says Borys Wróbel at Nectome in San Francisco, California, a research company focused on memory preservation. “But what we are offering, as a company, is for their body and brain to be kept, essentially indefinitely, in the hope that sometime, in the future, it would be possible to read out the information from the brain and reconstruct the person… to allow them to continue, in effect, with their life.”
One step toward ghost in the shell..... Is it "living" or being "simulated"? Is it being trapped in a digital hell that you can never escape?
Archive: https://archive.today/1dv0k
From the post:
>>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.
“They would need to donate their brain and body for scientific research,” says Borys Wróbel at Nectome in San Francisco, California, a research company focused on memory preservation. “But what we are offering, as a company, is for their body and brain to be kept, essentially indefinitely, in the hope that sometime, in the future, it would be possible to read out the information from the brain and reconstruct the person… to allow them to continue, in effect, with their life.”
