This start-up wants to upload the brain to the computer to help people immortal

We need even greater leaps to digital what is in our heads.

Nectome , a million-dollar start-up is having the idea of ​​helping people become immortal, at least their souls. By marinating the brain with a special formula, they plan to turn your nerve connections into code, then upload it to a self-aware computer system after you die.

Imagine how Dr. Arnim Zola of Hydra existed in Captain America. It may also be what Nectome can do in the future.

Currently, at least 25 people pay $ 10,000 to order using the Nectome service. Meanwhile, the company is still in the process of calling for capital and research.

Nectome wants to upload the brain to the computer to help people immortal.

Nectome has just received a $ 80,000 scientific research award, after they found a way to perfectly preserve nerve cells in the brain. Normally, after we die about 5 minutes, the interruption of blood flow to the brain will cause the first nerve cells to die.

By combining marinating techniques and ' vitrification ' , the Nectome sealed all nerve connections in a perfect state. This technique can be used to preserve intact brains for hundreds or even thousands of years.

The idea of ​​Nectome is that in the meantime, scientists will find a way to scan all the connections in the brain and convert it into code to upload to the computer system, helping their customers relive. and immortality.

'If the brain dies, it's like your computer is off. But that does not mean that the information in it has disappeared , "said Ken Hayworth, a neuroscientist who chairs the Brain Conservation Fund in the United States.

With current technology and technology, scanning and reconstructing nerve connections in the brain is an impossible task. A single neuron of the brain can bind to more than 8,000 other cells. But according to Hayworth, in 100 years we can do it. And if he suffers from an incurable disease, he will also choose to freeze the brain to wait for the upload.

Why is incurable disease, Hayworth dare to test this brain vitrification method? In fact, the price for hope to be immortal is the life of the participant. Scientists of Nectome can now only vitrify the brains of living people.

As mentioned, within 5 minutes after death, nerve cells died. Therefore, the brain must begin to preserve as soon as the patient's heart is still beating. Currently, Nectome is targeting only patients with terminal illnesses, whose lives at the end of their lives can be legally devoted.

For these patients, Nectome will provide a hope to awaken their brain in the future.

In fact, the idea of ​​freezing the brain to wait for uploading to a cognitive computer system is not new. Since the mid-20th century, many companies have begun to freeze their bodies in the hope that the science of the future may bring the bodies back to some form of life.

Can a frozen brain be repaired to return to a fully functioning state, or even translate code and upload to a computer? It depends a lot on technology leaps.

At the present time, Nectome has demonstrated that they have the ability to preserve the brain well, without damaging important neurological connections. Clearly, we need even greater leaps to digital what is in our heads, memories, logical thoughts, sentiments .

Basically, if you do that, you will be able to live immortally in a computer system. What needs to be done now is to solve the problem of philosophy, that the physical systems of the brain can synchronize with the computer to create consciousness.

Previously, scientists were able to implant wormworms into a Lego car to control it. This is a study that gives us hope in the future.

Can we upload the brain to a computer system?

But there are still moral arguments.'It's a funny thing to get future generations to shoulder the responsibility of our brain banks , ' said neuroscientist Michael Hendricks, McGill University. "We don't have enough burden on the shoulders of our children or grandchildren?"

'I hope people in the future will be horrified to see that in the 21st century, the rich and nothing to do in the past poured their money and resources to try to live immortal on their grandchildren's back. " Hendricks said.

Right now, we are struggling with the issue of digital resource rights. Imagine digitizing a person's brain, thinking and the whole memory. How can we decide those things with a dead person?

Despite many challenges, the Nectome raised about $ 1 million first. Their resources are enough to continue the research for a while longer. There will be a period of time that allows us to wait for the development of brain preservation in the next decade.

There is no need to be impatient at this time. When the Nectome technique requires that the person who wants to be "immortal" must preserve his or her brain while living, meaning being killed, surely no one is in peace and wants to send his soul into a machine. Computer.