{"id":201735,"date":"2024-12-16T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T16:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/uploading-the-brain-to-live-forever-might-work"},"modified":"2024-12-16T10:30:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T16:30:34","slug":"uploading-the-brain-to-live-forever-might-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/uploading-the-brain-to-live-forever-might-work","title":{"rendered":"Uploading the brain to live forever might work"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dr. Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston hopes to pick up the movement where Jones left off, albeit with the significant twist that his version does not require freezing. A research fellow at Melbourne\u2019s Monash University, Zeleznikow-Johnston wrote the new book, \u201cThe Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death<\/a>,\u201d which makes the case that cryopreservation is possible and should be more widely available. Rejecting the popular notion that death endows life with meaning<\/a> as \u201cpalliative philosophy,\u201d Zeleznikow-Johnston\u2019s book instead argues a human\u2019s connectome \u2014 a high-resolution map of all their brain connections \u2014 could be theoretically recorded perfectly before they die.<\/p>\n

Once that happens, that same internal brain activity could be recreated through high-powered computers, while a new brain is grown in a vat via stem cells or some combination of the two. As such, Zeleznikow-Johnston is proposing a spiritual descendant to the cryonics movement (which he dismisses as \u201cunscientific\u201d and \u201cunsubstantiated\u201d), one where the focus is not on preserving tissues but on the \u201cdata,\u201d so to speak, of our distinct connectomes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have very strong evidence that the static structure of the neurons is enough to hold onto someone\u2019s memories and personality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston hopes to pick up the movement where Jones left off, albeit with the significant twist that his version does not require freezing. A research fellow at Melbourne\u2019s Monash University, Zeleznikow-Johnston wrote the new book, \u201cThe Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death,\u201d which makes the case that cryopreservation is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,2017,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cryonics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}