Re A start-up says it can back up your brain. However, there’s one small catch. - The Washington Post

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Frank Wales <frank () limov com>
> Date: March 15, 2018 at 3:53:34 PM EDT
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Cc: ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] A start-up says it can back up your brain. However, there’s one small catch. - The Washington Post
>
> Dave, for IP if you like.
>
> As with any backup system, the real test is not how well the backup process works, but how well the recovery 
> procedure works. Wonder how they’re planning to test that? :-)
>
> Of course, in this case, there is also the slight question of where one gets scratch brains to do the recovery into.
>
>
> Frank.
>
> > On 15 Mar 2018, at 16:20, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2018/03/14/a-start-up-says-it-can-back-up-your-brain-however-theres-one-small-catch/?utm_term=.11ebe77c7ef4&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
> >
> > A start-up says it can back up your brain. However, there’s one small catch.
> >
> > By Gene Marks
> > Storing dead brains is not a new business. There’s a company in Arizona that right now holds more than 150 bodies 
> > and heads — including the head of Red Sox great Ted Williams — in liquid nitrogen with the hopes of a future 
> > reawakening. But now there’s a start-up that says it can do all of this and better: it can make a complete backup of 
> > your mind. However, there’s just one catch: you have to die first.
> >
> > The company, called Nectome, says its proprietary chemical solution can keep the brain intact for hundreds — even 
> > thousands of years. “You can think of what we do as a fancy form of embalming that preserves not just the outer 
> > details but the inner details,” Robert McIntyre, the company’s founder told the MIT Technology Review.
> >
> > But here’s the thing: the brain’s got to be fresh and the patient must be alive for its embalming chemicals to do 
> > their job. For this to happen a patient must be willing to die in order for the process to complete. The product is 
> > “100 percent fatal,” McIntyre admitted. “The user experience will be identical to physician-assisted suicide.”
> >
> > ...
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