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  "id": 14658803,
  "title": "Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/six-wild-ideas-for-perpetuating-your-mind",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-15T09:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MIT Tech Review Biotech",
    "slug": "mit-tech-review-biotech",
    "url": "https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/15/1145819/six-wild-ideas-perpetuating-your-mind-cognitive-immortality/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind:\n\nScientists are exploring ways to preserve our minds, even after death. From freezing brains in liquid nitrogen to uploading memories to the cloud, these mind savers are taking various approaches to cognitive immortality. Here are six potential paths for keeping our minds alive, their feasibility, and the benefits they could bring:\n\n1. Head Transplants: Sergio Canavero, an Italian surgeon, has been pushing for head transplants as a means to transfer consciousness from one body to another. Though promising, critics argue it could be more like murder than medicine and has not shown significant success in animal trials.\n\n2. AI Clones: With the help of artificial intelligence, human likeness and memories can be captured and used to create conversational bots or video talking heads. Although these avatars can be realistic, they lack true self-awareness and remain a gray area in terms of consciousness.\n\n3. Brain in a Jar: Companies like Bexorg are experimenting with preserving human brains in vats after death, infusing them with oxygen-rich artificial blood to study their metabolic activity. While these brains can provide valuable drug testing opportunities, they are not currently conscious and have a limited \"life\" of about 24 hours outside the body.",
  "summary": "Have you ever thought about what makes you you? Science assures us it has everything to do with the three-pound organ between our ears, with its billions of neurons and trillions of delicate connections. But it’s a lot trickier to explain why we have a sense of self-awareness or to pin down precisely where that…",
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        "outlet": "MIT Technology Review",
        "title": "Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/six-wild-ideas-for-perpetuating-your-mind-14660420",
        "published": "2026-10-15T09:00:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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