The startup that preserves brains

“There’s never been anything quite like Nectome,” said Antonio Regalado in Technology Review.com. The startup, founded by MIT computer scientists, is developing a high-tech embalming process “for exquisitely preserving brains in microscopic detail.” The idea is that future scientists will take the scan of your brain “and turn it into a computer simulation.” In other words, someone “a lot like you, though not exactly you, will smell the flowers again in a data server somewhere.” The growing popularity of the concept of “immortality as a computer program” has helped Nectome raise $1 million in funding. Nectome’s brain-preserving process comes with a “grisly” caveat, however. For the procedure to work, “you have to be euthanized first.”