A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”

A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review, 2018/03/14
The least interesting thing about this post is that there's some startup doing something. Far more interesting is the question the project poses: if your brain is perfectly preserved, that is, all neurons and connections remain intact, then if it's restarted again, have you survived? Our first instinct is to say 'no', but there are cases where ringworms are completely frozen, later thawed, and demonstrated the same memories it had before freezing. More...