Videos, interviews, and reading on the science of brain preservation — from short introductions to in-depth talks and primary sources.
A 3-minute explainer: the brain preservation option.
New to the topic? This short explainer covers the core idea: stabilising the brain's structure after legal death so the information it encodes — memories, personality, identity — is not lost. From there, the video series and talks below go deeper.
An eight-part series laying out the Foundation's mission, the scientific objections, and how preservation could work.
The Royal Institution: Could science abolish death? — with Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston.
How and why we should abolish death — an accessible, science-grounded case for brain preservation, by BPF Executive Director Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston.
View the bookDiscussions of key papers on how memory is physically encoded in the brain.
A combined archive of interviews and coverage featuring the Foundation's researchers and mission — Ken Hayworth, Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston, and others — newest first.
Core writing and primary sources on brain preservation, mind uploading, and the neuroscience of memory — tagged by topic.