Startup Nectome Promises Immortality or Death: Can they deliver?

Nectome took the tech social media world by storm when they
announced, at Y Combinator, that they'd kill you for $10,000.
Well, they'd kill you and preserve your brain, possibly leading
to some kind of digital immortality when they upload your brain
to a computer. This was met with excitement, skepticism, and -
ultimately - MIT severed ties with the company.

We look into the science, ethics, and philosophy of Nectome's
proposed brain-uploading scheme. Could it really work? Or is it
just a techno-fantasy?


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Thanks to Shelly Fan of Singularity Hub and various writers of
the MIT Technology Review.