271. Peter Ward — The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Brain Preservation Prize
The idea is that the your memory self, that that's the key to selfhood. That's who you are, your collection of memories. The next step would be scanning every single synaptic connection in a giant computer and then turning it on. But realistically, you know what he're going to do with that? The brain preservation prize. We can't even reverse engineer the human brain at the moment because there's so much we do with it. It's still like the most powerful instrument in the world. Ar er, I don't think they'll achieve what they think they're going to achieve. They have these, you know, scanning microscopes where they can see the actual synapses
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