23rd January 2006, 5:15 PM
This isn't bioengineering really, it's a truly artifical brain, created totally via computer programming and some SUPER smart computer.
Don't think about it now, but soon we WILL have to deal with concia, or "ghosts" perhaps, dwelling in an artificial, almost shell-like structure.
Who's in that pic?
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?i...925354.000
Here's a link to more stuff. More questsions, regarding altering our brains to further cognitive abilities. With drugs to actually enhance things or inhibit other things, we are getting closer to a lot of the sci-fi moral issues you might otherwise only see in Star Trek.
I for one would love to upgrade my brain, but yes long term testing of these drugs is important. However, I have to draw the line at actually forcing people to modify their minds to get a job. There's a lot of bad that could happen, but there's also too much good to ignore.
Then there's the hypothesis that after we first link up to the internet with our conciousness, we'll all never want to leave, and slowly our minds will be as one. Resistance is futile...
But hey, we'd have a fun uber quest, perfection.
Don't think about it now, but soon we WILL have to deal with concia, or "ghosts" perhaps, dwelling in an artificial, almost shell-like structure.
Who's in that pic?
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?i...925354.000
Here's a link to more stuff. More questsions, regarding altering our brains to further cognitive abilities. With drugs to actually enhance things or inhibit other things, we are getting closer to a lot of the sci-fi moral issues you might otherwise only see in Star Trek.
I for one would love to upgrade my brain, but yes long term testing of these drugs is important. However, I have to draw the line at actually forcing people to modify their minds to get a job. There's a lot of bad that could happen, but there's also too much good to ignore.
Then there's the hypothesis that after we first link up to the internet with our conciousness, we'll all never want to leave, and slowly our minds will be as one. Resistance is futile...
But hey, we'd have a fun uber quest, perfection.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)