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Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chips
valamaldoran writes "Looks like organic computers aren't too far off. Live Science has an interesting article about fusing brain neurons with silicon chips. From the article: 'The achievement could one day enable the creation of sophisticated neural prostheses to treat neurological disorders or the development of organic computers that crunch numbers using living neurons.'"
Seems like programming for a neural network would have much of the same difficulties as quantum computing, only without the considerable advantage of computing power that quantum computing provides. Let's be honest, they just want to get in our brraaiinns..
Making you think you're crazy is a billion dollar industry.
I guess it won't belong before resistance is futile.
The model and procedure for making the many parts of our body is encoded in our DNA. If we just drop in a a chip how can the body know to interact with it? Unless our genes are rewritten to include driver software (heh!) then the only likely result will be a mucus surface forming around the inorganic material, rather like a pearl forming around a piece of grit. At the basic level everything is done in terms of shuffling chemicals around. There is no "master planner" who will integrate our new chip capabilities (64-bit floating point maths or something) into the normal functioning of our brains.
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Will it run Linux? And if so, just imagine a beowulf cluster of these organic computers!
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... this will lead to some kind of brain O/S elitism Having said that I don't think I would be using Microsoft Windows Seizure Edition.
Even if one of these was implanted into the brain of a woman, you can still bet that no-one would be able to write a manpage for her. ;.;
Don't take the above poster too seriously. He doesn't.
"I have a headache due to high CPU usage. would you like to:
a. Shut down some applications.
b. Let me sleep for a while and get back to you.
c. Get me some Aspirin already!"
That this would give a new meaning to the term "Brainfreeze"
=|
Well I for one welcome our new cyborg overlords.
In the not too distant future, next Sunday A.D.
Do we really want blond computers?
Your lack of faith disturbs me.
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1. It will only think Microsoft Thoughts.
2. It will only think one thought at a time, unless you buy MS Brain Enterprise Server
3. Sometimes, it will stop thinking. The human will need to be killed and brought back with the paddles. This will be considered normal.
4. Windows software will suddenly make sense.
5. All your thoughts will be covered under DRM. You can share thoughts with up to three other people, but only if you are in a connected wireless area and your thoughts can register their new owners.
6. You may live longer, but large parts of your life will be spent watching a blue bar slowly crawl across your field of vision.
7. All sex will be done by oblique references. Nudity will not exist in any form other than pixilated and blurred images.
8. There will be Open Source brains -- called "Open Minds" but the people who choose them will be considered insane and untrusted by the rest of the MS Brain using world. These people will be locked away in insane asylums.
9. There will be Apple OS-X brains. The people who choose this will be seen as misguided flower children, wandering in airports with be smiles and preaching their message of peace and good music. They will be largely ignored.
10. There will be <>(@!*@($&&) * [[<< 0x000000BE or ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY >>]]
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