This sounds like a sucker's bet. Startup Offers ‘100 Percent Fatal’ Procedure To Upload Your Brain CBS Local — A startup company is giving people the chance to digitally preserve their memories forever. There’s one catch to the brain-uploading procedure however: the company has to kill you first. Nectome, a startup founded by two MIT graduates who studied artificial intelligence, says they have created a method of perfectly preserving the human brain using a high-tech embalming process. “Our mission is to preserve your brain well enough to keep all its memories intact: from that great chapter of your favorite book to the feeling of cold winter air, baking an apple pie, or having dinner with your friends and family,” the company writes on their website. Nectome adds that it believes science will create technology that will be able to digitally “recreate your consciousness” within the next 100 years and their service is the first step in making sure your mind is ready for that breakthrough. The unnerving twist to this digital immortality is that the company reportedly needs your brain to be alive and active when the embalming starts. More nonsense from the Transhumanist cult.
It could be like one of your afterlife choices. Your soul leaves your body and then jumps into the machine, only it can't get out... Your mind could have a unique signature that fits your soul, and draws it in.
Great, so even after people die, their brain can still troll the internet. It is interesting from the pov of science, but useless... unless they find some fantastic use for this. Maybe we will all end up as the brains of future computers. As for "you", that ends when you die. We still don't understand the mechanisms of consciousness or self awareness. At this time there is no reason to believe that can be preserved.
Nectome, huh? That sounds like it means "Book of Death" (combination of "necro" and "tome"), which would of course be the opposite of the "Book of Life" from the bible.
