Billionaire, 32, pays company to kill him and upload his brain to a computer

A Silicon Valley billionaire 32 pays $ 10,000 to be killed so that his brain is kept in the hope that he will be transferred one day to the computer so that he can live digitally forever. Sam Altman, 32, a technology entrepreneur, has paid to participate in a queue list at Nectome - a start that promises to keep your brain so that - hopefully one day - upload it to a computer to give it to your eternal consciousness Zoe. And the method, which can be assured by the company, is "100% fatal".

But Mr Altman, who co-created the Y Combinator program which funds start-up companies, told MIT Technology Review that he’s confident minds will be digitized in his lifetime.

“I assume my brain will be uploaded to the cloud,” he said.

And he is not alone. Twenty four other people have also paid to join a waiting list at Nectome.

The company essentially proposes to embalm your brain – while you are still alive – with the intention of uploading it to a computer if or when technology permits, so that you can live digitally forever.
Netcome’s chemical solution can preserve a body for hundreds or potentially thousands of years so one day scientists may scan your stored brain so it can be reborn as a computer simulation.

But because the process requires ‘fresh brains’ the embalming chemicals need to be pumped into the client while they are still alive – effectively killing them.
“The user experience will be identical to physician-assisted suicide,” Nectome’s co-founder Robert McIntyre, a computer scientist, said.
Nectome’s storage service is not for sale yet and there is still no evidence that memories remain, or can be extricated from dead tissue.
But the company already has a waiting list of future clients, ready to jump on the opportunity if or when the procedure becomes legal.
Daily Mirror




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