Through new scientific discoveries, the founders of the company called Nectome (Robert McIntyre and Michael McCanna) have designed a new method to keep the human brain in a cryogenic state (Liquid Nitrogen), with the aim that in the future it can be used in a computer simulation, and give life again with the personality of the deceased.
It is not very pleasant to know that your encephalic mass can be treated as a removable external disk unit. However, for many years, the most privileged human beings have embraced the idea of transcending time through cryogenization, where they preserve human beings at low temperatures, with the aim of reviving them in a future with better opportunities, and advances in science for the cure of diseases. (NOTE: for those who are thinking about the father of Mickey Mouse, I clarify that Walt Disney was not cryogenized, his body was incinerated and handed over to his relatives according to official sources).
Now, the new procedure does not intend to reanimate the body of the deceased, but rather to recover the information (memory and personality) stored in the structure and brain chemistry. Well, my dear reader, in this point of the article I can only say that any resemblance to fiction is purely coincidental, or not ?
Strongly recommended film from the director Wally Pfister, released in 2014 with the performances of Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara, Cillian Murphy and Paul Bettany.
The central theme of the film is about Dr. Will Caster, an artificial intelligence researcher who works to create a machine that has collective and self-sufficient consciousness. I encouraged you to enjoy the film and discover what happens with that experiment.
Now, going back to our real reality, and I say it this way because we're already experiencing virtual reality even through our cell phones.
In our real reality, as reported by the MIT magazine, McIntyre and McCanna legally used the body of a recently deceased elderly woman and preserved her brain two and a half hours after death.
The time before preservation caused irreversible damage to the brain, and actually is being used to collect samples of its composition in an electron microscope. So, if you want a company like Netcome to preserve your brain, you should only request euthanasia and as they say on their website, they will "back up" your mind, what do you think? Pretty innovative, isn't it?
Researchers want to go further and test the system in a terminally ill person, proposing assisted suicide, hoping that the content of their brain can be recovered in the future and downloaded to a computer, in order to upload it to the internet cloud, when Technological innovations allow it. In fact, in current times with social networks and personal data interconnection exchanges, many people are (thoughtlessly) in the i-cloud !!!. I personally do not criticize this, but strongly recommend you to don't let hack your mind or personality, and be strong having a good antivirus in your thoughts.
Believe it or not!, there's already a list of (at least 25) people interested in the procedure, but Nectome have only managed to preserve the brain of a pig with real integrity.
The controversy between science, technology and humanity (conscience, feelings) makes us think about the thin line between the realities we are living (real or virtual), which often distances us of our most loved persons.
Imagine what would happend if (without taking into account the personality of the donor) they introduce a terrorist or psychopath in the "cloud" (thinking about the money domination in the established world order). This character of the "software" could unleash a fight to destroy humanity as we know it, in order to implant a matrix of thought (yes, as you might be thinking, a kind of "Matrix", or new world order), and I say it again: any resemblance to the fiction is pure coincidence! or not ?. However, don't be afraid, there will always be some good programs to balance the equation.
So do not be discouraged, because if everything goes well, in the future you can be part of a video game where the characters will be yourself, and a lovely pig.
I hope you like this brief history, mix of science, fiction and reality. Greetings to the whole community, waiting for your vote, or positive comments. CARPE DIEM.
