Hi Aurelia! I think the recent news about the "uploaded" fruit fly (mentioned in a previous comment) add to the available evidence (without proving, at least not yet) that your brain preservation method works.
But $250K seems too much to me. Many people who would otherwise be interested couldn't even consider it. For example I couldn't, not without winning the lottery.
I hope, however, that advances in technology and reductions of operational costs will make this a viable option for younger people.
Is the email address I have to you still valid, or do you have a new one?
Love your subreddit (but I don’t like Reddit much and I almost never use it).
Some kind of time travel, or at least time scanning (Option 3) seems the best option.
William Poundstone's "The Recursive Universe" reports Conway's persuasive analysis of alive, intelligent Life patterns in Life. Conway thinks that alive patterns would emerge, survive, propagate and evolve in huge random fields with very low density (say one on cell per billion).
Exactly! This was the case for Teslas, mobile phones etc. so I guess it will be the case here. Too bad radical price reductions won't arrive in time for most older people. Bot I'm happy for younger people!