Brain Preservation Foundation

# Brain Preservation Foundation **Type:** Research organization **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Primary source:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] ## Definition Brain Preservation Foundation is the organization that awarded the 2018 Large Mammal Prize for structural brain preservation. ## Relationships [[wiki/Brain Preservation Foundation|Brain Preservation Foundation]] is related to [[wiki/Brain Preservation Foundation Large Mammal Prize|Large Mammal Prize]] and [[wiki/Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation|ASC]]. ## Source route [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] ## Research Inference Attractors  These are secondary semantic placements for the inference attractor network. Each statement keeps its original ID and tier; its canonical cluster page links back to every destination. Source register: [[research/Research Inferences|Research Inferences]]. Interpretive context: [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] and [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]]. Collection route: [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. - **INF-0428 — Established.** Methylation clocks give a quantitative biological age that responds to intervention, supplying the endpoint any longevity program requires. A validated biomarker is what converts longevity from a lifetime trial into a measurable short-horizon experiment. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Brain Preservation|Brain Preservation]] - **INF-0430 — Analytic.** Extending the body's lifespan without addressing neural aging produces a preserved organism with a degrading person, which makes brain maintenance the binding constraint on longevity as a continuity strategy. Neural tissue's limited replacement capacity is the specific reason. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Brain Preservation|Brain Preservation]] - **INF-0434 — Plausible.** Preservation initiated as a planned medical procedure under controlled conditions yields far better outcomes than emergency response after death. Legal recognition of elective preservation is therefore the intervention that would most improve quality, and it is a statutory rather than technical change. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Brain Preservation|Brain Preservation]] - **INF-0435 — Analytic.** Whether revival proceeds through biological repair or through scanning and emulation determines which preservation method is correct, and the two impose different chemistry requirements. Choosing a preservation protocol is implicitly choosing a revival hypothesis. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Brain Preservation|Brain Preservation]] - **INF-0436 — Analytic.** Preservation is a call option on future capability with a known premium and an unknown expiry, which makes it analyzable with ordinary decision theory. Framing it as an option rather than a belief removes most of the rhetorical heat from the question. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Brain Preservation|Brain Preservation]] - **INF-0437 — Analytic.** Global mortality is roughly sixty million people a year, so any preservation program with civilizational ambition requires industrial throughput. Capacity planning at that scale is an infrastructure problem comparable to funerary industry logistics, and nobody has attempted the arithmetic publicly. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Brain Preservation|Brain Preservation]] - **INF-0447 — Plausible.** Induced torpor research funded for trauma care and spaceflight would extend viable suspension windows without freezing. A pharmacological pause is the intermediate technology between emergency medicine and preservation, and it has independent funding. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Brain Preservation|Brain Preservation]] - **INF-0448 — Strongly indicated.** Without a published metric of preservation quality, no preserved case can be evaluated and no method can be compared. Establishing a connectomic quality standard would make the field falsifiable, which is the precondition for it being taken seriously. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Brain Preservation|Brain Preservation]] - **INF-0449 — Unresolved.** Whether a given preservation preserves enough is testable in animals by preserving, scanning, emulating, and comparing against pre-preservation behavior. That experiment is fundable today at small-animal scale and would settle the field's central question empirically. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Brain Preservation|Brain Preservation]] - **INF-0450 — Analytic.** Longevity medicine, preservation, and emulation are sequential rather than competing options: each extends the window in which the next becomes available. Stating them as a sequence rather than a choice is the accurate framing and the one that maximizes an individual's odds. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Brain Preservation|Brain Preservation]]  ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts  > "Brain preservation followed by mind uploading is a cure for death." > **— Kenneth Hayworth**, *2010, subtitle of Killed by Bad Philosophy* *Verification Status: Not a direct quotation — this wording is the essay's subtitle, not a sentence established as quoted speech. It must not be published as a verified personal quotation without a different primary passage.* [[reminders/unverified/Brain Preservation as a Cure for Death by Kenneth Hayworth|Brain Preservation as a Cure for Death by Kenneth Hayworth]] > "The neuroscience and medical communities should begin an open debate regarding ASC's ability to preserve the information content of the brain." > **— Kenneth Hayworth**, *2018, Brain Preservation Foundation statement* [[reminders/Preservation/Can Brain Preservation Save the Information That Makes Us by Kenneth Hayworth|Can Brain Preservation Save the Information That Makes Us by Kenneth Hayworth]] > "If memories are encoded structurally, preserving structure preserves the information." > **— Kenneth Hayworth**, *Brain preservation writings, compressed candidate wording* *Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: Brain preservation writings, compressed candidate wording.* [[reminders/unverified/If Memories Are Encoded Structurally by Kenneth Hayworth|If Memories Are Encoded Structurally by Kenneth Hayworth]] > "Preserving the information in a brain may matter more than preserving its present biological activity." > **— Anders Sandberg**, *Brain preservation and emulation discussions, wording candidate* *Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: Brain preservation and emulation discussions, wording candidate.* [[reminders/unverified/Preserve the Brain’s Information, Not Just Its Activity by Anders Sandberg|Preserve the Brain’s Information, Not Just Its Activity by Anders Sandberg]] > "I want my brain preserved when I die." > **— Kenneth Hayworth**, *Public interviews on brain preservation, wording candidate* *Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: Public interviews on brain preservation, wording candidate.* [[reminders/unverified/Preserving the Brain After Death by Kenneth Hayworth|Preserving the Brain After Death by Kenneth Hayworth]]