Startup is pitching a mind-uploading service

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Startup is pitching a mind-uploading service
The startup accelerator Y Combinator is known for supporting audacious companies in its popular three-month boot camp. There’s never been anything quite like Nectome, though. At YC’s “demo days,” Nectome’s co-founder, Robert McIntyre, is going to describe his technology for preserving brains in microscopic detail using a high-tech embalming process. Then the MIT graduate will make his business pitch. As it says on his website: “What if we told you we could back up your mind?”(MIT Technology Review)
 
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Startup is pitching a mind-uploading service
The startup accelerator Y Combinator is known for supporting audacious companies in its popular three-month boot camp. There’s never been anything quite like Nectome, though. At YC’s “demo days,” Nectome’s co-founder, Robert McIntyre, is going to describe his technology for preserving brains in microscopic detail using a high-tech embalming process. Then the MIT graduate will make his business pitch. As it says on his website: “What if we told you we could back up your mind?”(MIT Technology Review)
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"...It has also won a $960,000 federal grant from the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health for “whole-brain nanoscale preservation and imaging,” the text of which foresees a “commercial opportunity in offering brain preservation” for purposes including drug research..."

Your tax-dollars at work, ladies and gentlemen. Is this a part of Biden's "Build Back Better" program?

And since when is the NIH interested in the COMMERCIAL opportunity of a project, rather than the scientific opportunity?
 
I'm waiting for the day when someone's brain content gets subpoenaed for civil litigation, or is the subject of a search warrant. Now that would be Orwellian.
 
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