John Smart, co-founder of the Brain Preservation Foundation, argues chemical plastination could inexpensively preserve human connectomes at death for possible future memory retrieval or revival. He describes small-animal brain preservation and scanning progress, the foundation’s mouse and pig brain prize, lifelogging and posthumous digital “twin” avatars, and speculative future whole-brain scanning technologies.
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