Not what you expected.
This article is about the human brain, and ethical questions that surrounds a newer branch of science that delves into the mysteries of the human brain, and presumably what the future of study and possible manipulations that might be made.
It's an unusual read, and comes from the Washington Times which may limit your ability to read (unless you know how to remove the cookies that limit free articles).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/lab-grown-brain-bits-open-windows-to-the-mind--and-a-maze-of-ethical-dilemmas/2018/09/02/9a76efee-a25b-11e8-83d2-70203b8d7b44_story.html?utm_term=.88d4b6ecc61b
The article makes me wish I was twenty years younger, and able to be around to see the long term implications of this science. Doesn't take too much of a stretch of the imagination to open a Pandora's Box of possibilities that go even further than Artificial Intelligence.
Imagine a brain with unlimited intelligence and with human emotions and memories that go on beyond what we recognize as a life span.
Whew!!!... Far out... but... imagine Thomas Jefferson being transported into today's world, and even beyond "Hal".
Guess it's a personal thing... I hate the word "finite".
This article is about the human brain, and ethical questions that surrounds a newer branch of science that delves into the mysteries of the human brain, and presumably what the future of study and possible manipulations that might be made.
It's an unusual read, and comes from the Washington Times which may limit your ability to read (unless you know how to remove the cookies that limit free articles).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/lab-grown-brain-bits-open-windows-to-the-mind--and-a-maze-of-ethical-dilemmas/2018/09/02/9a76efee-a25b-11e8-83d2-70203b8d7b44_story.html?utm_term=.88d4b6ecc61b
The article makes me wish I was twenty years younger, and able to be around to see the long term implications of this science. Doesn't take too much of a stretch of the imagination to open a Pandora's Box of possibilities that go even further than Artificial Intelligence.
Imagine a brain with unlimited intelligence and with human emotions and memories that go on beyond what we recognize as a life span.
Whew!!!... Far out... but... imagine Thomas Jefferson being transported into today's world, and even beyond "Hal".
Guess it's a personal thing... I hate the word "finite".