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‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’
A brilliant young scientist believes that if we preserve our brains, they could be revived in the future, helping us live for centuries
“And as result,” Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston explains to me, “she was still alive when, in 1921, what had hitherto seemed impossible was achieved: insulin treatment was developed.” Gossett received her first injection of the hormone in 1922 and started to eat again, move again, live again. Sure,” he concedes, “if someone developed an anti-ageing drug that halted the ageing process, it wouldn’t need wider discussion.” We’d simply live as we do now, with the prospect of life lasting indefinitely, if we remain out of harm’s way. “Take very high resolution scans of brain structure to characterise how someone’s neurons work, recreate it in a digital format then put it in another robotic, virtual or biological body.” Future scientists will need to fill in the details.
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