A non-profit research and education foundation dedicated to advancement towards whole brain emulation. Usage: The mission of the Carboncopies Foundation is to identify, facilitate, and conduct the research that will deliver Whole Brain Emulation. The vision of the Carboncopies Foundation is an expedited future where whole brain emulation benefits humanity and individuals.
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Cryonics The practice of storing patients at very low (typically, liquid-nitrogen) temperature after their legal death, to preserve them in hopes that future medical technology will be able to restore them to healthy life. Contrast with Cryogenics, the science of the production and effects of very low temperatures. Usage: Cryonic preservation begins with a wash-out […]
Personal Identity (in psychology) The set of psychological attributes which make a person unique and different from others, or how a person sees or defines themselves. (in metaphysics) The identification of an entity at two different points in space/time as the same person. Different theories of personal identity use different criteria for making this judgment. […]
Subjective Experience First-person, internal sensations and thoughts not directly available to others in the absence of a report by the experiencer. (Contrast with: Second or third-person accounts and objective experience.) The personal awareness that one is experiencing or observing from a unique first person perspective. (E.g. the claim, “I am experiencing this.”) Contrast / compare […]
The largely antiquated belief that life is not reducible to physical mechanisms and requires an immaterial “vital spark” (or “elan vital”) to be embodied within a physical subject. Usage: From a vitalist perspective, a computer could never be alive or conscious unless it is infused with a “vital spark” or soul. Related to dualism, […]
Whole Brain Emulation An artificial system built to reproduce all relevant behaviors of an individual biological brain, by recreating the internal dynamics of that brain at a given level of detail. Usage: The whole-brain emulation of a particular zebra fish would demonstrate the unique behaviors (both learned and innate) of the original fish. An artificial […]
The principal organ of the nervous system, the operation of which results in most or all of the behavior of the organism. Usage: The human brain contains approximately 86 billion neurons and roughly the same number of glial cells. Injury to the brain can result in very specific changes to personality and abilities, as in […]
Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation
A technique which preserves brains in a state suitable for use in connectomics research. ASC combines glutaraldehyde fixation, for rapidly stabilizing brain ultrastructure, with cryopreservation for long-term storage.
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