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Awesome, this kind of things really amaze me. I'm just curious what are the possibilities once they have everything scanned. Yes we can probably cure some disea

by Tomino 14y ago

Awesome, this kind of things really amaze me. I'm just curious what are the possibilities once they have everything scanned. Yes we can probably cure some disease or fix some stuff, but that's kind of old news, I am more interested in what they can actually do. Can they upload new language into your brain? or what else?

shitlord 14y ago
Well, you could analyze how the human brain performs tasks that computers can't seem to do very nicely (either because our algorithms to do those tasks aren't very good, or because of some sort of inherent limitation). Among these tasks are image recognition, natural language processing, speech recognition, etc. Imagine the possibilities: you could get up in the morning, step inside of your autonomous vehicle, ask it to "drive me to work, but stop at a good coffee shop first", and have it drive you to your destination in the middle of a hurricane. Or alternatively, you could datamine the shit out of everything that ever existed. The last part is probably just wishful thinking. I ended up writing a research paper on this topic last year, and those issues I listed are actually the ones I saw most frequently listed as the possible applications of advances in neural and cognitive sciences.
- ttty 14y ago
  When that day will come many people will not have jobs xD just saying..
cpressey 14y ago
Perhaps you just worded that sloppily, but why do you consider curing "some disease", like, say, schizophrenia or Alzheimer's, would not be "actually doing" something?
- Tomino 14y ago
  Yes I did probably word it wrong, of course to cure these diseases is awesome, but we kind of know what the potential is there, I am more interested in what other potentials, apart from diseases, are there
coldtea 14y ago
Well, thinking of the usual state-corporate world priorities, first they will say that the possible benefits of such research is "curing brain diseases". Then they will forget about that (maybe after selling some unnecessarily expensive brain disease cure's to the rich) and proceed to use it for military and population control purposes.

by Tomino 14y ago

shitlord 14y ago

Well, you could analyze how the human brain performs tasks that computers can't seem to do very nicely (either because our algorithms to do those tasks aren't very good, or because of some sort of inherent limitation). Among these tasks are image recognition, natural language processing, speech recognition, etc. Imagine the possibilities: you could get up in the morning, step inside of your autonomous vehicle, ask it to "drive me to work, but stop at a good coffee shop first", and have it drive you to your destination in the middle of a hurricane. Or alternatively, you could datamine the shit out of everything that ever existed. The last part is probably just wishful thinking. I ended up writing a research paper on this topic last year, and those issues I listed are actually the ones I saw most frequently listed as the possible applications of advances in neural and cognitive sciences.

ttty 14y ago
When that day will come many people will not have jobs xD just saying..

cpressey 14y ago

Perhaps you just worded that sloppily, but why do you consider curing "some disease", like, say, schizophrenia or Alzheimer's, would not be "actually doing" something?

Tomino 14y ago
Yes I did probably word it wrong, of course to cure these diseases is awesome, but we kind of know what the potential is there, I am more interested in what other potentials, apart from diseases, are there

coldtea 14y ago

Well, thinking of the usual state-corporate world priorities, first they will say that the possible benefits of such research is "curing brain diseases". Then they will forget about that (maybe after selling some unnecessarily expensive brain disease cure's to the rich) and proceed to use it for military and population control purposes.