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Brain Prosthesis Ready For Testing
jhouserizer writes "New Scientist is reporting that an artificial hippocampus is ready to undergo testing. The leader of the team of scientists is Theodore Berger of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. They hope these artificial hippocampuses can replace damaged (stroke, Alzheimer's, etc.) portions of your brain. I wonder what portions of 'you' would be noticeably different to your family & friends? I wonder how long it will be before we can have HUDs, such as in this story by Cory Doctorow?"
It would start a market, particularly in college, when you need to know something. Just implant a piece of brain with some knowledge, kinda like the matrix.
You: I need a bubble sort.
Tank: Comin right up
* Eyes flutter *
You: Lets go!
What, me Tweet?
...sounds like the name of a geek college.
It just has to say "I don't understand and "Where's my tea?".
A dyslexic man walks into a bra.
o/` Everybody wants prosthetic
foreheads on their real heads o/`
is how long before someone overclocks one of these things? How many tops (thought operations per second) could you get? How would you cool something like that?
That's not a soda... it's a caffeine delivery device!
(But you'll have to get in line behind me!)
Yes, with the ever increasing student body, ASU is slowly becoming a hypocampus... ...and I think several of the students need some brain work done as well...
*was that out loud?*
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
I wonder how long it will be before we can have HUDs
That would be wonderful. Script kiddie h4x0r5 your in-brain HUD and makes it so all you can see is the goatse.cx guy. No thanks, I'll keep my HUDless brain.
Trolling is a art,
Abby, Abby Normal.
*taps prostetic arm*"I lost my arm in Nam.."
*taps prostetic leg*"I lost my leg in Korea.."
*taps head* "I lost my brain voting for Bush.."
I have a feeling this will be modded down.. heh.
let George W. Bush be the first recipient.
Would it then be possible to record every moment of your life and store it away?
Only if you sign a document giving the hospital exclusive copyrights, including movies, books, broadway plays, performance rights and derivitives. Any attempt to circumvent your brain prosthesis would then been construed as a voilation of the DMCA.
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Now we'll have a bunch of people running around and saying things like "Stapling machine, Mrs Zambesi"
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If you lose your hippocampus you only lose the ability to store new memories
Hmmm... Remember Sammy Jenkis?
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"If you lose your hippocampus you only lose the ability to store new memories,"
/. were just an oversight!
And I thought duplicate stories on
Soon we'll be more hippocampus than human.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
This post is serious. Don't laugh.
Unfortunately, that would violate the DMCA, and you know you haven't got a chance against the kind of lawyers God Himself can afford.
Karma: Chameleon (mostly affected when you come and go, you come and go)
The hippocampus integrates short-term memory into long-term. People who have had their hippocampus damaged (or removed) are unable to form any new long-term memories. They live incredibly interesting lives, because everyone they meet is a new person - every time they meet them. Why would you want to actually have yours replaced?
I told my wife that if I had my hippocampus removed, I'd get to sleep with a new woman every night, and not even be cheating on her! She didn't appreciate the comment so much, though....
steve
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
oh hell yes..
rm *nightwithfatchick
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
You know, there's an old joke about a bunch of engineers being accidentally sent to hell, and being engineers, they spruced up the place considerably. Air conditioning, electricity, all the modern comforts. When God noticed the mistake, he went down and demanded that Satan return the engineers so they could go to heaven, as was their due. Satan refused and God threatened to sue. Satan's response was, "Sure, but where are you going to find a lawyer?"
I just want to take over the world...Why does that automatically make me EVIL?
While the hippocampus is critical in forming memories, it doesn't pass every single experience you have into memory. This device is the same... it merely mimics the hippocampus' behavior. The researchers even admitted that they didn't know how the hippocampus works. Rather they just reproduced the behavior that a working hippocampus would produce.
;-)
In other words, this device is to the hippocampus (a part of your brain involved in encoding data for storage) what Samba is to Windows....
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Hmmm... Remember Sammy Jenkis?
No.
How frustratuing would it be to have sit through the copyright disclaimer everytime you wanted to remember something...
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
These things are great. I just had one installed yesterday.
These things are great. I just had one installed yesterday.
These things are great. I just had one installed yesterday.
These things are great. I just had one installed yesterday.
These things are great. I just had one installed yesterday.
If you get a new hippocampus, do you have to get a new motherboard too?
Congratulations! Now we are the Evil Empire
Or climb a hi-voltage tower.
".. Do you know that the first memory implant was designed to give people perfect life? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. ..." :)
Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe
Hm... Long term memory failure
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Maybe they can somehow bootleg this into those Nigerian money scams.
What is music when you despise all sound?
...a math co-processor installed.
2+2? 5, of course. Dammit, I got an Intel.
if(!toilet_paper) roll.replace(new roll);
So how long before Hollywood forces them to add digital rights management so you can't steal the movie you just watched? I can see it now, you are only allowed to remember the movie for 3 days and then you have to go to the theatre again.
Shouldn't there be some kind of penalty for posting a comment containing solid and correct facts to Slashdot? This sort of thing could destroy the Internet as we know it!
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