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Company Says It Can Thwart Death by Freezing Brains

Company Says It Can Thwart Death by Freezing Brains
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By    |   Saturday, 02 January 2016 02:58 PM EST

An entrepreneur says his new artificial intelligence company will be able to resurrect the dead by 2045 by preserving human brains before their owners die.

"There are promising breakthroughs happening every year in neuroscience and biotechnology," John Bocanegra told The Daily Express. "We plan to implement these breakthroughs as we work towards performing the first surgical procedure of restoring and implanting a human brain to a new bionic body."

Bocanegra's company, Humai, aims to "extend and enhance life" by using cryogenics to freeze human brains for extended periods of time, and then putting them into artificial bodies.

He said that if his company can preserve the brain before its human body dies, and then transplant it into a bionic body, then it can "achieve a point where no one has to die at all."

As technology advances, there are many companies who are looking into the secret of making humans immortal, or at least to live for hundreds of years.

Silicon Valley hedge fund manager Joon Yun last year announced the Palo Alto Longevity Prize offering two prizes, totaling $1 million to challenge scientists to "hack the code of life" while pushing the human lifespan past 122 years, the longest anyone has been recorded to live.

Fifteen scientific teams have entered the contest, which ends on Dec. 31, 2019, but will award the money for the first instance where restoring vitality and extending the lifespan in mice by 50 percent is recorded.  Yun says he'll spend even more money for bigger feats, calling it a moral quest, reports The Guardian.

Google in 2013 announced "Calico," short for the California Life Company, in hopes of reverse engineering biology that controls lifespan. Bill Maris, head of Google's multi billion dollar investment arm,  thinks that people could live to 500, reports The Daily Express.

"We have tools in the life sciences to achieve anything you have the audacity to envision," said Maris. "I just hope to live long enough not to die."

Google cofounder Sergey Brin also has faith in technological advances, and believes that there will come a day when death can be "cured."

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