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    How to approach the problem of brain preservation?

    Yes, of course. Perhaps over a century, even. The physics allow it. It isn't all that expensive to store tissue cryogenically for a long period of time. A few thousand dollars (usually paid with life insurance) generates the necessary compound interest under conservative assumptions...
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    How to approach the problem of brain preservation?

    Although we have nerves throughout the body, a person's essential personality and memories are thought to be stored more or less completely in the brain. In theory, you could transplant a brain into a new body, and the individual who would awaken would be the one whose brain is used. It would...
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