Physical Attraction

Startup Nectome Promises Immortality or Death: Can they deliver?


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Nectome took the tech social media world by storm when they announced, at Y Combinator, that they'd kill you for $10,000. Well, they'd kill you and preserve your brain, possibly leading to some kind of digital immortality when they upload your brain to a computer. This was met with excitement, skepticism, and - ultimately - MIT severed ties with the company. We look into the science, ethics, and philosophy of Nectome's proposed brain-uploading scheme. Could it really work? Or is it just a techno-fantasy? www.physicspodcast.com -> Contact us with comments, concerns, suggestions for content, anything you like.  @physicspod on Twitter Thanks to Shelly Fan of Singularity Hub and various writers of the MIT Technology Review. 

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