Imagine a World Where You can Successfully Map and Track Down a Specific Memory in your Brain

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Stop the time in the brain , embalming it while still alive, to preserve its connections and be able, one day, to put in the cloud: this is, in a nutshell, the goal of Nectome, a start-up founded in 2016 by two researchers MIT specialize in artificial intelligence.

The idea is that someday it will be possible to study human connectome (ie the set of neural connections in the brain) on such a detailed level as to reconstruct a person's memories, even after death. " Imagine a world where you can successfully map and track down a specific memory in your brain, " reads the company website. Or, by imagining bigger, a future in which the neural organization of the deceased, networked, can be used to trace their acquired experiences, and treasure them without being forgotten.

HOW TO DO?

The first step is to preserve the brain through a process of vitrification , an advanced form of cryopreservation that would avoid, according to the start-up, the destruction of the connection. The problem? It must be done on a living brain , because the organ deteriorates immediately after death.
The process of injecting embalming fluids, which replace the blood in the brain, should be attempted on end-of-life patients and would prove fatal (the team has already vitrified a mouse and pig brain with the same procedure).

INVESTMENTS

For this reason Nectome thinks that in the future it could be used in states with more permissive laws on euthanasia and end of life, like California. The start-up was funded by the US National Institute of Mental Health and is supported by Y Combinator, a start-up incubator that has previously supported names like Dropbox or AirBnB.

Short Video From Nectom Website

WILL IT WORK?

However, there is no evidence that it is possible to reconstruct memories from a dead brain tissue - what are these memories? Is it enough to know the structure of a synapse, to recall them? Moreover, Nectome did not provide any information on how the vitrified brains would be treated, nor how the process of placing the cloud would take place, which according to the company's website could be tested in the first instance around 2024.

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