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FUD, I‘m sorry. I have heard the same thing 15 years ago and worried about it. There is no technology to scan a brain. There won‘t be anytime soon. If there wou

• ben_w 8y ago
  Right now it would require a destructive process. Such a process is being used to test the effectiveness of cryonic freezing on rabbits. [1] [2] Obviously I wouldn’t want to sign up for such a process any time soon. However, it’s almost too obvious that the test would be: 1) train animal to do a thing 2) freeze, slice, scan, process data with existing AI [3] to turn into connectome 3) simulate, see how simAnimal reacts to trained stimulus from step 1 4) repeat with more complex animals, perhaps even ones which would have been euthanised and see if they still know their owners, until you reach humans And while that assumes cryonic doesn’t turn brains to mush, that’s without relying on Elon Musk turning SciFi into reality al-la Neuralink/Neural Lace (which, again, I’d be terrified of at this point if anyone managed to make one). [1] http://www.brainpreservation.org/asc_rabbit_fulleval/ http://www.brainpreservation.org/asc_rabbit_fulleval/ [2] https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/19877/20160211/cryogenics-entire-rabbit-brain-successfully-frozen-revived-first-time.htm https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/19877/20160211/cryo... [3] https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/07/improving-connectomics-by-order-of.html?m=1 https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/07/improving-connectomics-by-...