Brain uploading, will you do it? with Robert McIntyre - Calls From the Future #41
Description
Uploading your brain to the internet is closer than you think... thanks to this guy.
Our guest, Robert McIntyre, is the CEO of Nectome.
Nectome is a Y Combinator from the Winter 2018 batch.
Learn more and connect with Robert:
Website: https://nectome.com/
Email: r@nectome.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aurellem
Listen to more Calls From the Future here: https://bit.ly/2STWsET
TIMESTAMPS:
0:03 Archiving human minds
3:58 History of writing & language
9:54 Robert McIntyre & Nectome introduction
16:22 Neuron scanning complexity & number of neurons in different spices
19:27 Storing your thumb & storage size
29:38 Scanning a human brain - the storage capacity
32:30 Electron microscope price
36:27 The storage & compute cost
44:54 Fib-sim image
48:46 Seeing synapses & proteins
50:55 Archiving human minds in the future
55:29 Compute requirements
57:58 Printing or growing a "person" future
1:01:59 Robert's thoughts on the future efforts
1:08:41 Robert's story & cryo-preservation
1:28:54 The sequencing steps for human brains
1:30:15 Much better brain model & the difference between perfusion & diffusion
1:36:19 Taking the technology to market
1:38:02 What is the engram?
1:42:03 When will we be able to use Nectome services
1:45:05 Getting in touch with Robert
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