Comment Lending new meaning to 'man-machine interface' (Score 1) 42
That may be all well and true.
Although we do have computers in our brains, in the form of our brains, the problem with human thought is that it's not quite 'linear' or 'computatational'.
Human beings lend themselves well to solving 'fuzzy' problems, but stuff like 2+2 and matrix muls eats time. Most of us have to count it out in our heads in some way.
Now if we could reverse engineer our brains and engineer in our own ALUs to our own cortexes, that would be very handy. I could delegate computational processing to that computer-like part of my brain, and leave the rest of my brain and consciousness free to deal with the more pressing fuzzy problems human beings are so good at - like abstraction, problem solving, decision making and model building.
What I'm saying is that if we harness this innovation, and use it for the good of humanity, all well and good. It could equally be used to control people. Usual hacker disclaimers/restrictions apply, but from a hacker p.o.v, I like the idea of having more control over my own brain. If I could engineer new computational functionality into it, leaving the rest of my brain free to do the important things, that would be great.
See the difference between 'arithmetic' and 'mathematics'. One isn't really a subset of the other. Arithmetic is what computers do. Mathematics explains why and how they do it.
Although we do have computers in our brains, in the form of our brains, the problem with human thought is that it's not quite 'linear' or 'computatational'.
Human beings lend themselves well to solving 'fuzzy' problems, but stuff like 2+2 and matrix muls eats time. Most of us have to count it out in our heads in some way.
Now if we could reverse engineer our brains and engineer in our own ALUs to our own cortexes, that would be very handy. I could delegate computational processing to that computer-like part of my brain, and leave the rest of my brain and consciousness free to deal with the more pressing fuzzy problems human beings are so good at - like abstraction, problem solving, decision making and model building.
What I'm saying is that if we harness this innovation, and use it for the good of humanity, all well and good. It could equally be used to control people. Usual hacker disclaimers/restrictions apply, but from a hacker p.o.v, I like the idea of having more control over my own brain. If I could engineer new computational functionality into it, leaving the rest of my brain free to do the important things, that would be great.
See the difference between 'arithmetic' and 'mathematics'. One isn't really a subset of the other. Arithmetic is what computers do. Mathematics explains why and how they do it.
