Are you longing for your brain and all its memories to be preserved for ever? That once fanciful idea seems creepily closer now that a complete pig’s brain has been successfully treated, frozen, rewarmed and found to have its neural connections still intact.
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A human brain treated this way could never be brought back to life. Yet all its preserved information could potentially be uploaded into an artificial or virtual body indistinguishable from the previously living one – like “uploading a person’s mind” after a long wait. Would this then be “you”?
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My guess is that “I” would wake up in my new, perfect artificial body and think, “Wow, here I am again”, only to realise that I was a completely inadequate “person” in this new world. Everyone else’s minds would be so far expanded beyond their original brains into other devices, implanted and external, that they would see me as a profoundly backward human or some kind of throwback from a primitive world they could hardly imagine. My friends, family and old connections would be gone. No one would understand me and I would not understand them. This is one more reason why I shall not be signing up for my own brain preservation any time soon.
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