If we liken the nervous currents to electric currents, we can compare the nervous system below the hemispheres to a direct circuit from sense-organ to muscle
Come in Neuron: do you copy?
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Category: Philosophy/Ethics
Carlo Ierna writes about …
In this blog you will find also some fictional dialogues made between different virtual characters. We thought of doing this to stimulate the reader to identify with the questions or curiosity of the different characters. In fact, each character has their own personality and will interact with others in a different way. If you want to view all the virutal characters and you want more information about please visit the virtual characters page.
The Digital Analogy
Computers are only prostheses; they no more do calculations than clocks tell the time. Clocks help us to tell the time, butthey don’t do it by themselves
Thinking in the Box
Even the simplest brains are awesome computational instruments, they do computations we do not know how to do, in ways we do not understand…
Be2Be networking
Can we transfer information directly from one brain to another? And then link multiple brains into a hive-mind like the Borg? Could acquire new information without having actually to learn it? Experiments on rats seem to suggest that we can transfer memories from one brain to another, even when linking them over the internet.
Uploading your mind
We expect our first application to be computer control for people with spinal cord injury. There are many other potential future applications for the Link. These include restoring motor and sensory function and the treatment of neurological disorders
Read/write access to the brain?
Elon Musk has recently announced a breakthrough in his Neuralink project. Besides several interesting technological innovations, there is a lot of hype about what it could all mean in the future. Will we truly be able to read and write memories, emotions, knowledge in the brain?