Unskippable: Syndicate
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i'll take a crynet mask over a dart 6 any day, you get secondary benefits such as under water breathing, night vision and a supercomputer powered ai to do your bidding as-well as looking damn snappy and mildly intimidatingGraham_LRR said:
i believe an engineer from the mit actually fused a usb port into his nervous system to record data once, dunno how that's coming along but i think that would be preferable to brain surgery
Shhhh....They're working very hard to keep that hidden, don't you know? Can't have a white hoodie walking in and mucking up the whole show, now could we?Aptspire said:
OT: Heh, the whole "Mr. Thesaurus" bit was pretty good, as were the "Gravel for Lunch" jokes.
You know, personally, I do sort of like the whole corperate dystopia future setting, but it is getting a bit bland nowadays. Nothing against Syndicate, I just feel like it's all seeming a bit too familiar. Maybe, to shake things up a bit, we should make a setting like that where every corperation is run by a different Bond villain, each complete with their own motif and all. That would be much more fun....
TLDR version: I wouldn't worry too much about it, it's a long ways off (if it even happens at all).theultimateend said:
The major problem is just that we don't understand the brain's software. The predominant theory is that it is a parallel processing network, but that is more a type of hardware than software, and some still argue that the brain can (and does) run the same kind of binary based languages as computers.
All we can do right now is associate certain parts of the brain with certain activities. For instance, thinking "Right" and "Left" light up different portions of the brain, so they've programmed wheelchairs to turn when people think those words. The problem is that you have to keep thinking them. It takes a lot of concentration.
For there to be a REAL neural interface, you'd have to make it so the device interconnects with neural modules so that they can actually share computational inputs and outputs, which would require a complete understanding of the brain's software. And on top of that, the brain's hardware and software mutually condition each other: "the neurons that fire together, wire together" is a popular saying in neuroscience.
This means that the "hardware" (i.e. the weight distributions of the neurons in a cognitive module), and thus the software as well, is almost certainly different for every person. Certain areas of the brain are set aside for certain activities likely because they are connected to predominant inputs and outputs (sources of information) that are genetically determined (i.e. the optical nerves are genetically predetermined to connect with and give their information to the occipital lobe). But the actual way the modules process these inputs is a result of the way the neurons adjust their weights until they convert the determined inputs into the appropriate outputs.
The human brain is the most complex thing in existence, and there simply aren't enough genes to predetermine its software.
What does this mean? Well, it probably means that the brain has no common computing language. And if the brain doesn't have a common computing language then it becomes very difficult for us to get information from it. In essence, any neural implant would probably have to act much like neurons themselves in order to interact with our brains, and this would make it fairly difficult to encode information in these systems.
In essence, the implants would probably have to learn just like us, so they probably wouldn't be very convenient or useful.
Yes, and it shall be a glorious Dundonian-led civilization =DMatParker116 said:
We shall have the Dundee Dream Team of Brian Cox, Liz McColgan, George Galloway and Danny Wallace. We could also rope in the likes of Snow Patrol, Brian Molko (Placebo) and Lorraine Kelly, as even though they weren't born in Dundee, they have some connection to it.
Totally worth it. if she was personally offering such a proposition, my asnwer is "Tie me down, knock me out, and carve me up!"mlsterben said: