How long before we use the human Brain for a hard drive?
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the computer, giving people brain damage is bad for businesses, as well as the huge cost associated with the R&D to develop a system to change the structure of a persons brain, with the risk that it may well not work at the end of the R&D.
Much safer to invest in optical computing and quantum computing, along with software.
on this though, a £9 calculator will beet the human brain of most people, for most applications.
eg, give me the cube root of 658921456
What do you think will work it out quicker person or calculator?
Although the visual cortex might be useful, but again by the time we could harness that processors + soft ware would be smaller faster and more durable than the cortex.
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Setting aside the ethical issues for a moment how exactly would you propose to get said brain? What would you plug it into? How would you sustain it and protect it from harm? If you think that hard drives are fragile then imagine how delicate a human brain is.
im not the leading man on this technology am i 
i do not know how to wire a brain into a pc.
im sure though in future times this may and will happen.maybe they will farm the brains or use or ways i dont know
everything at the end of day comes down to money whether you admit it or not and if the brain can do a better job than a machined part of technology it will be used providing they can use it in a efficient manner.
i do not know how to wire a brain into a pc.im sure though in future times this may and will happen.maybe they will farm the brains or use or ways i dont know
everything at the end of day comes down to money whether you admit it or not and if the brain can do a better job than a machined part of technology it will be used providing they can use it in a efficient manner.im not the leading man on this technology am i
im sure though in future times this may and will happen.maybe they will farm the brains or use or ways i dont know
but it can't and it wont. It would cost huge amounts to develop, be incredibly fragile, not particularly quick as it would be horribly limited by converters/adapters to change it into something the computer could read.
plus you have to deal with it dying/feeding it etc.
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Well we are in the matrix right now. Some of us that have broken the system can download things to our brains, for instance i learned karate this morning in 10 seconds.
im not the leading man on this technology am i
im sure though in future times this may and will happen.maybe they will farm the brains or use or ways i dont know
I don't even get /why/ you want this to happen - what would be the benefits?
Are you saying that you think that people should be able to upload how to do things ala 'The Matrix' or just so they can carry around there word documents and Crysis saved files in there head?
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The human brain is amazing but by the time there is a device to interface with the brain and use it like a HDD computers will have overtanken humans sufficiently for it not to be worth bothering I think.
As the article posted by ~>Dg<~ explains humans arn't good at specific tasks, stuff we do all the time like reason, hand eye coordination, social interaction etc we are good at and have large parts of our brain dedicated to it but stuff like chess is better done by computers already because we just arnt very efficient at it. 1/30 they estimate for chess as that is the power of the computer compared to the estimated human brainpower.
As time goes on and computers improve, they become less specific and will eventually match us. So a specific task like data storage is much better done on a computer.
At £100 for 1TB I think we are likely ahead of what the human brain could hold considering the cost to keep it alive and the rate which computers are going it isn't going to change imo.
It is more likely we will add computers to improve on specific tasks we arn't good at. Like some kind of calculator to make us better at maths.
As the article posted by ~>Dg<~ explains humans arn't good at specific tasks, stuff we do all the time like reason, hand eye coordination, social interaction etc we are good at and have large parts of our brain dedicated to it but stuff like chess is better done by computers already because we just arnt very efficient at it. 1/30 they estimate for chess as that is the power of the computer compared to the estimated human brainpower.
As time goes on and computers improve, they become less specific and will eventually match us. So a specific task like data storage is much better done on a computer.
At £100 for 1TB I think we are likely ahead of what the human brain could hold considering the cost to keep it alive and the rate which computers are going it isn't going to change imo.
It is more likely we will add computers to improve on specific tasks we arn't good at. Like some kind of calculator to make us better at maths.
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The human brain is prone to much random wandering. Even at rest under an MRI scan it is busy doing its thing.
This is why, in my opinion, you will never see brain-computer direct interfaces (as in wired to the brain) as there is simply too much noise.
This is why, in my opinion, you will never see brain-computer direct interfaces (as in wired to the brain) as there is simply too much noise.
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