Mind Uploading

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

Reanimators, Uploaders and Uncertains — Which Are You? Take the Test, and See Where You Stand on the “Copy Problem” The first in a multi-author series on brain preservation technologies, options, [...]

Let me start this post with a disclaimer: I am not a trained neuroscientist. As VP and co-founder of the BPF, I enjoy following the scientific literature on neuroscience topics. I am instead a [...]

Biography: Michael Graziano (Wikipedia) is a scientist, novelist, and composer, and is currently a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. His previous work focused on [...]