{"id":239154,"date":"2026-06-17T11:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/ken-hayworth-brain-preservation-is-the-logical-lifeboat"},"modified":"2026-06-17T11:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:05:11","slug":"ken-hayworth-brain-preservation-is-the-logical-lifeboat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/ken-hayworth-brain-preservation-is-the-logical-lifeboat","title":{"rendered":"Ken Hayworth: Brain Preservation is the Logical Lifeboat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ken-hayworth-brain-preservation-is-the-logical-lifeboat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/198572067-singularity1on1-ken-hayworth.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Thirteen years ago, I sat down with Ken Hayworth and asked him a question most people spend their whole lives avoiding.<\/p>\n<p>What happens to the self when the body fails?<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Brain preservation, he argued, is the logical lifeboat that people have access to today.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/ken-hayworth-brain-preservation-is-the-logical-lifeboat\">Continue reading \u201cKen Hayworth: Brain Preservation is the Logical Lifeboat\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,64,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-singularity","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239154","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\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}