Ken Hayworth - Interview - Part 1
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Channel: Science, Technology & the Future · 2013 · Science & Technology
Dr. Ken Hayworth - Connectomics Pioneer Founding president of the Brain Preservation Foundation. Senior scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus. http://brainpreservation.org/ http://www.janelia.org/people/scientist/kenneth-hayworth Neuroscientists today can preserve small volumes of animal brain tissue immediately after death with incredible precision -- the features and structure of every synapse within these volumes is well-protected down to the nanometer scale, using an inexpensive, room-temperature process of chemical fixation and plastic embedding, or "plastination." The image to the right is an example of plastination and local circuit tracing, occurring in leading neuroscience labs around the world today. This work immediately raises the question: "Can the standard chemical fixation and plastic embedding technique used for electron microscopic investigation of brain circuitry be adapted to preserve the synaptic connectivity of an entire human brain?" http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-strange-neuroscience-of-immortality "The human race is on a beeline to mind uploading: We will preserve a brain, slice it up, simulate it on a computer, and hook it up to a robot body," 201305-26 15-58-44 201305-26 11-48-53
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