The Nectome startup has learned to freeze the brain to carry consciousness into the cloud and live forever

Startup Nectome is ready to realize the dream of any fan of science fiction and   Digitize the brain to give a person eternal life. Almost as in   " Modified carbon " from   Netflix. However, there is one nuance   - Before the digitization of the brain, Nectome needs the client to die.

How it works and   why die

MIT Review calls the Nectome idea "a high-tech embalming process " . AT   her   based on the process of aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation or, more simply, freezing of the brain. AND   until the main problem is   to digitize the brain of a living person. AND   generally digitize the brain. NETcome so far only knows how to freeze it, keeping the neural structure on   decades.

Why Netcome?

Not   looking at   that the idea is in   air for already 50 years, everything depends on   a bunch of technical difficulties. But   at   Netcome could. 2 years ago they thawed the rabbit's brain and   pigs, while retaining all the neural connections. AND   The prestigious award Brain Preservation Prize. A   at   February of this year, they repeated the focus, but   already on   the larger brain that was extracted from the   the deceased elderly woman. In fact, this was the first case of a successful freezing of the human brain.

So, hello, eternal life?

AND   yes, and   no. Due to a heap of complexities, Netcome is reinsured and   provides only services for   freezing of the brain. On   site Nectome indicated that the company did not   guarantees nothing related to   so-called immortality. A   The goal of the project is to   preparing the brain for   transplant in   digital form, which   it would not   Was in   future. Worth this pleasure about $ 10   000.

Source: MIT