Link of an article about Ray Kurzweil
Mok-Kong Shen
Joachim Pimiskern
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/by-2040-you-will-be-able-to-upload-your-brain-1792555.html
The neuroscientists are already doing experiments
with the hippocampus - an artificial one.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3488-worlds-first-brain-prosthesis-revealed.html
Hippocampus is the place where working memory is being
transferred into the long term memory.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-05/nyu-ssh051204.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040513010413.htm
http://origin.www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=963
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/4269
Regards,
Joachim
Mok-Kong Shen
> The neuroscientists are already doing experiments
> with the hippocampus - an artificial one.
The issue of ethics could be a grave one. On the other hand, such
technical advances remind me of a chat I had in the late nineteen
sixties with some colleagues, when one day we were sitting together
near a then for us astonishingly fast computer which was however
extremely extremely costly. We came up with a question concerning
the 'principal' feasibility of a project which is devoid of (or
anyway almost so) any ethical problems: Electrically connect the
brains of a large number of pigs to do computations. (You see we
were babbling about networking and even cloud computing in
ultra-modern terminology!) We envisaged pigs, because they are
comparatively intelligent among animals having large-sized brains
and are quite cheap.
M. K. Shen
Mok-Kong Shen
> The neuroscientists are already doing experiments
> with the hippocampus - an artificial one.
An article entitled:
Communicating person to person through the power of thought alone
http://www.soton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2009/oct/09_135.shtml