Startup is pitching a mind-uploading service

Discussion in 'Science and Technology' started by dealmaker, Mar 14, 2018.

  1. dealmaker

    dealmaker

    Startup is pitching a mind-uploading service
    The startup accelerator Y Combinator is known for supporting audacious companies in its popular three-month boot camp. There’s never been anything quite like Nectome, though. At YC’s “demo days,” Nectome’s co-founder, Robert McIntyre, is going to describe his technology for preserving brains in microscopic detail using a high-tech embalming process. Then the MIT graduate will make his business pitch. As it says on his website: “What if we told you we could back up your mind?”(MIT Technology Review)
     
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  2. Altered Carbon on Netflix covers that quite well. Do not get shot in the stack though.
     
  3. Thank you for sharing. This is useful information.
     
  4. mlawson71

    mlawson71

    We don't even understand the nature of consciousness yet, what is left for mind-uploading.
     
  5. Overnight

    Overnight


    "...It has also won a $960,000 federal grant from the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health for “whole-brain nanoscale preservation and imaging,” the text of which foresees a “commercial opportunity in offering brain preservation” for purposes including drug research..."

    Your tax-dollars at work, ladies and gentlemen. Is this a part of Biden's "Build Back Better" program?

    And since when is the NIH interested in the COMMERCIAL opportunity of a project, rather than the scientific opportunity?
     
  6. ipatent

    ipatent

    Do you think DARPA has nothing better than today's functional MRI for brain scanning?
     
  7. ipatent

    ipatent

    I'm waiting for the day when someone's brain content gets subpoenaed for civil litigation, or is the subject of a search warrant. Now that would be Orwellian.
     
  8. ipatent

    ipatent

  9. Wallet

    Wallet

     
  10. mlawson71

    mlawson71

    Wait, brain control? What do they mean by that?
     
    #10     Dec 17, 2021