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Do you really randomly poking some electrodes into your brain tissue is going to give you enough fidelity to query google. That's all it is, you know. Some wi
by platz 6y ago
Do you really randomly poking some electrodes into your brain tissue is going to give you enough fidelity to query google. That's all it is, you know. Some wires, randomly placed in tissue. The cells around those wires don't know the TCP/IP protocol or anything
- flixic 6y agoAnd chips are just some metal and sand, yet we figured out a way to turn them into something very useful. After all, our brains themselves are just "some wires".
- platz 6y agoAnd theres a big difference between between a completely controlled environment like a chip and an uncontrolled environment relative to engineering like a brain. I think your missing the point about what I'm highlighting needs to happen after the wires are inserted into some otherwise unsuspecting tissue that isn't specially adapted for this use case in any particular way.
- aeternum 6y agoYes, the brain is very adaptable though. Consider for example that humans can learn to use neurons in our fingertip to read, via braille. It would be pretty easy even with today's tech to stimulate neurons similarly to braille touch which we know works, provides 125-200 words per minute. With some research there should be ways to increase that bandwidth significantly.
- platz 6y ago> It would be pretty easy even with today's tech to stimulate neurons similarly to braille touch which we know works Citation needed