This technology is capable of storing all the content of your brain

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From time immemorial the human being has looked for a way so much to live much longer both in a purely physical way and to achieve that, in some way, at least his memory as a person persists for centuries or, as may be the case, manage to download all his memories in some way so that, in the future, they can survive in some other way.

The latter is what an American company seems to have achieved or at least this is what they advertise. Apparently its engineers have managed to develop an interesting methodology by which the human being could preserve intact brains at the level of microscopic detail. Basically, what they literally propose to us is to save a human brain for hundreds of years in liquid nitrogen without damaging its neural connections.

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Nectome ensures that they have the technology to preserve a human brain for hundreds of years

Going into a little more detail, despite the fact that the company is still quite unknown, the truth is that its founders on an individual level not so much. Specifically, we are talking about the owners of it being Robert McIntyre, MIT graduate, and Michael McCanna. Both are responsible for presenting this project under the umbrella of Nectome, name with which they have baptized their peculiar company.

The idea they intend to sell to the community is to get preserve human brains for as long as possible until the content of the brains is converted into a kind of computer simulation that, later, would return to give life to the personality of the individual to whom this brain belonged.

As you can see, the main difference with respect to traditional ideas, especially with regard to cryogenization, is that this time Nectome does not claim to bring the brain back to life, but to recover all the information that it houses inside, which would supposedly be kept intact, in the same way that today we recover information from a computer that has been off for a long time.

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Last month Nectome managed to legally get hold of the body of an old woman to start his experiments

Apparently and according to information from the MIT, the company last month legally obtained the body of an elderly woman who had just passed away in order to begin the process of preserving her brain two and a half hours after her death. Apparently due to the long time until preservation the brain suffered irreversible damage. Despite this, it has become one of the best preserved in all of human history.

This has been the first application of a very novel technique in humans. As expected and according to the researchers, they want to go even further and test your system on a terminally ill person proposing assisted suicide since the system, apparently and according to its creators, has been designed to be used in terminally ill people.

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Contrary to what it may seem, Nectome technology has many more advantages than we imagine

Nowadays it seems that Nectome's proposal is being very well received since its young creators have managed to raise one and a half million euros from different sources. As a detail, tell you that This technology will not be commercialized until it is scientifically proven and verified., something for which it still takes a lot of time of work and effort that must be invested in research and development.

Personally I have to confess that a technology like this catches me a bit 'misplaced'since although it seems like another kind of new generation cryogenization, on the other hand we are talking about a technology that can be very promising from an economic point of view since, when the time comes, we could be able to download all the content of our brain to load it on a platform capable of preserve all collective wisdom and thus contribute to its transmission to new generations.


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