📗 Libro en inglés THE FUTURE LOVES YOU

A brilliant young neuroscientist explains how to preserve our minds indefinitely enabling future generations to choose to revive usJust as surgeons once believed pain was good for their patients some argue today that death brings meaning to life But given humans rarely live beyond a century even while certain whales can thrive for over two hundred years it s hard not to see our biological limits as profoundly unfair No wonder then that most people nearing death wish they still had more time Yet with ever advancing science will the ends of our lives always loom so close For from ventilators to brain implants modern medicine has been blurring what it means to die In a lucid synthesis of current neuroscientific thinking Zeleznikow Johnston explains that death is no longer the loss of heartbeat or breath but of personal identity that the core of our identities is our minds and that our minds are encoded in the structure of our brains On this basis he explores how recently invented brain preservation techniques now offer us all the chance of preserving our minds to enable our future revival Whether they fought for justice or cured diseases we are grateful to those of our ancestors who helped craft a kinder world yet they cannot enjoy the fruits of t