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Blind faith

- Germany orders top CIA official to leave, PressTV.ir, July 11, 2017.

3. If a brain can be scanned, it can, theoretically, be mapped out and uploaded on to a computer, opening up the possibility of a digital resurrection, if not a physical one.

Still, it’s a giant unknown. If, hypothetically, we imagine Du Hong’s brain could be brought back to life, would she exist in the same form? Would she still be able to speak Mandarin?

“Oh jeez,” says Kowalski. There is a long pause. “Here’s what I believe: I believe every single person we have here can be brought back as far as their DNA is concerned. How much of the mind we can save is a matter of variables, like: did we get to the patient right away? The sooner you get to the person, the more likely you are to have their mind.”

Kowalski, who works as a paramedic (his role at the Cryonics Institute is unpaid), compares it to someone suffering a stroke: the quicker the intervention, the more hope there is of a full recovery. But he admits much of this is just guesswork and blind faith.

Isn’t it all a bit, well, weird?

“Before the first heart transplant, everyone thought that was a bit weird too,” he says. “When you think about it, you think Frankenstein, right? Yet that’s exactly what people felt about organ transplantations and look how many lives have been saved and enriched by that.”