Thirteen years ago, I sat down with Ken Hayworth and asked him a question most people spend their whole lives avoiding.

What happens to the self when the body fails?

Ken is president of the Brain Preservation Foundation. He is also a neuroscientist who refuses to flinch. His answer was not comfort. It was logic.

Brain preservation, he argued, is the logical lifeboat that people have access to today.

Here is the part that has stayed with me ever since. Ken imagines our grandchildren looking back at us. They will see that we had the science. They will see that we understood the brain holds our memories, our skills, our personality. And they will ask why we did nothing.

His verdict is brutal. We were not killed by bad technology. We were killed by bad philosophy. We simply could not accept that we are physical machines.

You do not have to agree with him. I am not sure I do. But that is the point.

The hard questions in futurism are rarely about what we can build.

They are about what we are willing to believe. The bottleneck is not the science. The bottleneck is the philosophy. This is why I keep coming back to the Why and the What, not just the How.

Ken forces that confrontation. Watch the conversation and decide for yourself where you stand. [ https://snglrty.co/3I2lefH](https://snglrty.co/3I2lefH)

What would your grandchildren conclude about the choices you are making right now? That is the question worth sitting with.

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So says Ken Hayworth — president of the Brain Preservation Foundation. Check out his Singularity 1 on 1 interview on SingularityWeblog.com