Robert McIntyre would like to get a few things straight. That โwaiting listโ of people plunking down $10,000 to have his company [Nectome] preserve their brains for future uploading? Just 30 โearly supportersโ of his research, he said; no one has been promised or even offered anything, certainly not silicon-based mental immortality.
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After MIT Technology Reviewย reportedย in March [2018] that his technology might require death atย the speed of assisted suicide, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology biologist stopped collaborating with the company, the universityย saidย it has nothing to do with Nectome, and neuroscientists offered little but scorn.
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As part of its effort to gain scientific respectability, Nectome recruited University of Oxford philosopher and computational neuroscientist Anders Sandberg to assemble an ethical advisory board and identify issues raised by brain preservation, from how to ensure informed consent from future customers to what happens if a government demands access to someoneโs preserved memories.
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โYouโre going to live your whole life, and all the stuff you built up is going away?โ [McIntyre] asked. โAll your memories and all your experiences and all your wisdom, erased [by death]? Thatโs just a bad plan. Screw that.โ
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