What's Next in National Security Russian Mogul's Plan: Plant Our Brains in Robots, Keep Them Alive Foreverhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wEZsSIpypg
Quote"This project is leading down the road to immortality," Itskov, who founded New Media Stars, a Russian company that runs several online news outlets, tells Danger Room. "A person with a perfect Avatar will be able to remain part of society. People don't want to die."
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/ (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/)
The prototype? :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb52JKOpfRI
How long before all our world leaders would jump on this? ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvYm68dOQ4k
Human brain interface has been in development for quite some time...to put into perspective the potential of this technology watch this clip:
22,000 rat brain neurons fly F-22 flight simulator in hurricane like weather... :o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcAyd6LokWo
ASIMO controlled by human brain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-fE9QBy0FI
Nice posts... I have a lot of mixed feelings about brain uplink, though... I think that it can be good but I do not trust the world leaders to use it for the betterment of the species.
The Hybrid rat/cpu brain is amazing... the fact that it not only learned and grew from part of a brain leads me to wonder what would happen if A human brain was used... and if it was successful... Would the Human brain still have its conciousness or a Machines conciousness... or Both...
I guess the Singularity is Near...
Humans With Amplified Intelligence Could Be More Powerful Than AI(http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/2035/kbigpicxy.jpg)
QuoteThe real objective of IA is to create super-Einsteins, persons qualitatively smarter than any human being that has ever lived. There will be a number of steps on the way there.
The first step will be to create a direct neural link to information. Think of it as a "telepathic Google."
The next step will be to develop brain-computer interfaces that augment the visual cortex, the best-understood part of the brain. This would boost our spatial visualization and manipulation capabilities. Imagine being able to imagine a complex blueprint with high reliability and detail, or to learn new blueprints quickly. There will also be augmentations that focus on other portions of sensory cortex, like tactile cortex and auditory cortex.
The third step involves the genuine augmentation of pre-frontal cortex. This is the Holy Grail of IA research — enhancing the way we combine perceptual data to form concepts. The end result would be cognitive super-McGyvers, people who perform apparently impossible intellectual feats. For instance, mind controlling other people, beating the stock market, or designing inventions that change the world almost overnight. This seems impossible to us now in the same way that all our modern scientific achievements would have seemed impossible to a stone age human — but the possibility is real.
Sounds good...so what could possibly go wrong? :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THE_hhk1Gzc
QuoteOne of the most salient side effects would be insanity. The human brain is an extremely fine-tuned and calibrated machine. Most perturbations to this tuning qualify as what we would consider "crazy." There are many different types of insanity, far more than there are types of sanity. From the inside, insanity seems perfectly sane, so we'd probably have a lot of trouble convincing these people they are insane.
Even in the case of perfect sanity, side effects might include seizures, information overload, and possibly feelings of egomania or extreme alienation. Smart people tend to feel comparatively more alienated in the world, and for a being smarter than everyone, the effect would be greatly amplified.
Most very smart people are not jovial and sociable like Richard Feynman. Hemingway said, "An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools." What if drunkenness were not enough to instill camaraderie and mutual affection? There could be a clean "empathy break" that leads to psychopathy.
http://io9.com/humans-with-amplified-intelligence-could-be-more-powerf-509309984 (http://io9.com/humans-with-amplified-intelligence-could-be-more-powerf-509309984)
There you have it...you'll feel just like one of the super-rich elite. :o
Download Knowledge Directly to Your Brain, Matrix-Style Quote"Participants can be trained to control the overall mean activation of an entire brain region," the study authors write, "or the activation in one region relative to that in another region."
This worked even when test subjects were not aware of what they were learning, the researchers said.
"The most surprising thing in this study is that mere inductions of neural activation patterns corresponding to a specific visual feature led to visual performance improvement on the visual feature, without presenting the feature or subjects' awareness of what was to be learned," Watanabe said in a statement.
Watanabe and colleagues said this method can be a powerful tool.
"It can 'incept' a person to acquire new learning, skills, or memory, or possibly to restore skills or knowledge that has been damaged through accident, disease, or aging, without a person's awareness of what is learned or memorized," they write.
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-12/scientists-achieve-matrix-style-subliminal-teaching (http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-12/scientists-achieve-matrix-style-subliminal-teaching)
Team unveils novel wireless brain sensor
QuoteA team of neuroengineers based at Brown University has developed a fully implantable and rechargeable wireless brain sensor capable of relaying real-time broadband signals from up to 100 neurons in freely moving subjects. Several copies of the novel low-power device, described in the Journal of Neural Engineering, have been performing well in animal models for more than year, a first in the brain-computer interface field. Brain-computer interfaces coud help people with severe paralysis control devces with their thoughts.
Arto Nurmikko, professor of engineering at Brown University who oversaw the device's invention, is presenting it this week at the 2013 International Workshop on Clinical Brain-Machine Interface Systems in Houston.
"This has features that are somewhat akin to a cell phone, except the conversation that is being sent out is the brain talking wirelessly," Nurmikko said.
Neuroscientists can use such a device to observe, record, and analyze the signals emitted by scores of neurons in particular parts of the animal model's brain.
Meanwhile, wired systems using similar implantable sensing electrodes are being investigated in brain-computer interface research to assess the feasibility of people with severe paralysis moving assistive devices like robotic arms or computer cursors by thinking about moving their arms and hands.
This wireless system addresses a major need for the next step in providing a practical brain-computer interface," said neuroscientist John Donoghue, the Wriston Professor of Neuroscience at Brown University and director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science.
http://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-team-unveils-wireless-brain-sensor.html (http://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-team-unveils-wireless-brain-sensor.html)