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Working Nerve Chip
poetic writes: "Two scientists from Munich have succeeded in creating a nerve chip with silicon and snail nerves. The cells were hindered from growing away from the silicon with a plastic fence. They managed to get a signal to go from silicon through a neural circuit and back to the chip again. Cute, one step closer to a decent uplink! See the
abstract at Nature's site."
This is very frightening, actually. Think about if we keep developing AI, and these chips follow. Couldn't it essentially develop to the point where computer circuits could control our OWN cells? Or am I the only one who thinks about these things?!
Maybe the Luddites were right after all.
The artificial Mind at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mind/ is currently housed in silicon but will be a natural inhabitant of these nerve chips as we approach the Technological Singularity.
I remember seeing an episode once where this scientist was kind of a dork in every sense, and then he created these computer like antibodies that would be able to attack any bad thing that entered the body. This was great at first, as he remained healthy, and then his physical fitness also seemed to improve. Well, then these antibodies went a little nuts and started making other improvements in the body: like after he went swimming, her developed gills. Then I remember after he tried to kill himself, his body created sporers to protected himself from hurting his body. And then he blew up a lab and killed himself.
Yeah, this is as much scifi as the article says the end use of these guys are, but the more we have computeresque things in our body, the more scared I get.
F-bacher
P.S. Oh yeah, and that guy had sex with his gf and she got pregnant, so the antibodies passed on to her. Dun dun da!
James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
Well, #2248298 says the same thing your post does, and it was posted 2 minutes bfore yours according to the time stamp. So I guess that would make your post redundant.
F-bacher
James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
I guess it would be a really effective form of Communism. I wouldn't mind if 4 billion others could instantaneously help me debug a malfunction with one my finger's servos.
Actually, once we're able to forcably remove thoughts from each other's heads who will need computers? I mean, aside from the computers implanted into our flesh.
Not physical wealth, in this utopia, but informational wealth. Unlike the internet which requires some idea of destination, all the knowledge of the entire species available, searchabe, catalogued, and prepackaged for each of the human nodes in a giant beowulf cluster.
Riker should have submit himself.
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That doesn't matter. He hit upon something anyway, direct brain control is the only way you can play Descent properly...
Um... informative?
I laughed, but I was not informed. Moderators?
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