Author: BPF Co-Founder, John Smart BPF advisor Dr. Susan Blackmore recently wrote a thoughtful and insightful opinion piece, Brain preservation is a step closer, but how could it ever be ‘you’? in the Death and Dying section of The Guardian (14 Mar 2018), exploring the ethics, sustainability, and lack of desirability, from her perspective, of brain preservation at the end […]| The Brain Preservation Foundation
A follow-up to the similarly titled 2016 article concerning the BPF small mammal prize Keith Wiley Author of A Taxonomy and Metaphysics of Mind-Uploading Brain Preservation Foundation fellow Mar. 13, 2018 On March 13, 2018, the Brain Preservation Foundation (BPF, http://brainpreservation.org) announced the winner of its large mammal prize for the successful preservation of a pig […]| The Brain Preservation Foundation
Let’s imagine that in a hypothetical future world, head transplants become possible, as somehow the massive technical challenge of reattaching the brain to the spinal cord can be overcome. This would raise an empirical question: is your brain able to adapt to the novel sensory inputs? An analogous question, probably even more distant in the […]| The Brain Preservation Foundation
A new manuscript from Gornet et al. describes their work using a serial electron micrograph-derived Drosophila connectome to simulate motion-detection in neurons in the T4 area of the optic lobe: They used the simulation tool NEURON, which is a wonderful and widely-used tool for predicting the electrical output from well-defined sets of connected neurons. One of their findings was that […]| The Brain Preservation Foundation