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title: ""Brain uploading will be familiar to readers of Ray Kurzweil’s books…"
date: 2018-03-13
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# "Brain uploading will be familiar to readers of Ray Kurzweil’s books…

*March 13, 2018 · Facebook*

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[https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610456/a-startup-is-pitching-a-mind-uploading-service-that-is-100-percent-fatal/](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610456/a-startup-is-pitching-a-mind-uploading-service-that-is-100-percent-fatal/){target="_blank"}
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\"Brain uploading will be familiar to readers of Ray Kurzweil's books or other futurist literature. You may already be convinced that immortality as a computer program is definitely going to be a thing. Or you may think transhumanism, the umbrella term for such ideas, is just high-tech religion preying on people's fear of death.\
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Either way, you should pay attention to Nectome. The company has won a large federal grant and is collaborating with Edward Boyden, a top neuroscientist at MIT, and its technique just claimed an \$80,000 science prize for preserving a pig's brain so well that every synapse inside it could be seen with an electron microscope.\"
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