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Would a high bandwidth brain to computer interface revolutionize technology?
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RoGeorge:
There are many attempts already, probably the most famous is Elon Musk's Neuralink.  Something like this:


(didn't watch this 8 mins, seen some longer couple of hours demo + press conferences some months ago).

Yes, a high bandwidth connection will change the World and how we will interact with each other.  Same about augmenting one's brain with Internet, and AI, and IoT connected straight to neurons.

What it is known for sure (from the prosthetic industry), is that any neural network can adapt itself and can learn how to make sense of any data stream.  Neural networks, including brain cells can adapt to "understand" any data stream.  For example, even a mush of rat brain cells grown in a Petri dish was able to learn how to flight a fighter jet by itself.  The rat brain cells grown in the Petri dish filled with connection wires and interfaced with a PC game learned how to pilot a fighter jet!


SiliconWizard:
One random question: what for?
jonpaul:
High BW achieved in nature by animals and humans over the last 1M yrs evolution...

Bats...Somar
Frogs..FDM, TDM Mxp comms

Sensors:
Eyes, ears,
COMMS: Nerves
CPU/DSP/Image/sound  processor
brain

eg extract voice conversation from noisy crowded room of sound...

eg extract pattern in dark noise image

Your thoughts?

Jon
RoGeorge:
Indeed, also tactile sensing by skin an hair, all these are amazing features we have and take them for granted.



--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on August 29, 2022, 06:58:04 pm ---One random question: what for?
--- End quote ---

Personal belief, there is no meaning in anything.

Things just happen, the Universe unfolds according to the rules of physics, for apparently no reason.  Meaning is a human concept related to our goals of staying alive and multiply.

Or else said, it would be the same "what for" as it was for anything else that already happened since forever.  What for the agriculture, the gun powder, the boats, the electricity, the Internet , or anything else?  Humans and the world were existing just fine without any of these, yet all these new things somehow did happen, and now we have them, weather we like them or not.  :-//
SL4P:
Probably no great advantage - because while every brain is ‘wired’ in much the same way, the data organisation is quite arbitrary - dependent on the individual and their personal journey.

The ability to ‘backup’ a brain for example, is great, but only useful restored into the exact same context.

In a computer for example, the instructions and data are handled and stored separately, but in a brain, they are intermixed on an opportunistic event based structure.

No individual piece of data makes any sense in a different context.
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