I can finally get that brain transplant I surely need.
[QUOTE=amorax;42001736]How do you know they're incapable of thought?[/QUOTE]
By being able to read the article.
[QUOTE='[Green];42001543']Oh god, pls no.
How about replacement brains for Alzheimer patients?
Maybe?[/QUOTE]
uh then you're sweet old grandparent would be replaced by some weird sterile blank slate human
[QUOTE=amorax;42001691]Why does this have 13 winners? This is totally awful. Think about it. What if you were born, but without arms, legs, fingers, a face, or even any skin? All you would be aware of is your own existence and the emotions and states induced in you by the drugs and chemicals the researchers who made you fed you and you would be completely at the mercy of these people at all times. Better hope there's not a budding sadist as a part of such a research team now or you would be in for one hell of a bad time. Actually, you would just be in hell anyway.[/QUOTE]
people like u are the reason why modern biological experiments aren't performed because of your stupid ethics, "oh my god some pink blob is suffering it must be terrible, cancel science forever"
[QUOTE='[Green];42001543']Oh god, pls no.
How about replacement brains for Alzheimer patients?
Maybe?[/QUOTE]
You may as well call a "brain transplant" a "body transplant".
If they could somehow place your brain in another body and place a brain inside yours, nothing has been fixed concerning you as a thining being.
Maybe part replacements for brains MIGHT work.
If a guy loses like 10 percent of his brain, they'll replace that 10 percent with a blank slate that he can add memory to.
Here's an analogy:
A computer has 3 HDDs. One breaks down. All the data is lost. So they replace it. At least now it has 3 HDDs again that can be used to store more data.
Im kinda talkin outta my ass. You guys get my drift though right?
[QUOTE=Rubs10;42002476]That, and simulating brains and people on computers.
I think there's a massive political shit-storm brewing.[/QUOTE]
In that case, would turning off the computer be murder?
That's pretty deep.
I dunno about you guys but I'll be replacing my brain with a better one at the first opportunity.
[QUOTE=Talishmar;42004682]I dunno about you guys but I'll be replacing my brain with a better one at the first opportunity.[/QUOTE]
You wouldn't be you anymore then, just a complete stranger with your body :v:
[QUOTE=Talishmar;42004682]I dunno about you guys but I'll be replacing my brain with a better one at the first opportunity.[/QUOTE]
Better? I don't know, having a generated brain is sort of like having an over sized baby brain in your head. You essentially kill yourself and some new thing takes over, possibly becoming worse than your brain might be.
Now grow a larger one and put it in a robot.
[QUOTE=Talishmar;42004682]I dunno about you guys but I'll be replacing my brain with a better one at the first opportunity.[/QUOTE]
that's.. uh, not really how brains work
[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;42001585]Neural augs? Why have machines in your head, when you can have a specifically modified piece of brain![/QUOTE]
Create tiny little brains to implement in augs that you implement in your brain.
Brains within brains.
[QUOTE=Talishmar;42004682]I dunno about you guys but I'll be replacing my brain with a better one at the first opportunity.[/QUOTE]
I bet you would
[QUOTE=Region;42004582]Maybe part replacements for brains MIGHT work.
If a guy loses like 10 percent of his brain, they'll replace that 10 percent with a blank slate that he can add memory to.
Here's an analogy:
A computer has 3 HDDs. One breaks down. All the data is lost. So they replace it. At least now it has 3 HDDs again that can be used to store more data.
Im kinda talkin outta my ass. You guys get my drift though right?[/QUOTE]
The servers we have at my school do something like that. We have like 12 HDDs and 3 of them are active. They each store about 1/3 of the data and if one goes down one of the backup ones restores the lost information and continues running until you can come and replace the broken one. Its really awesome actually.
I wonder if brains like that could eventually be used as organic processors?
[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;42001607]Next we'll have someone sue the human race for infringing on their operating system.[/QUOTE]
Install gentoo
Forget brain augs, just having 100% total control over my current one would be nice. No more embarrassing childhood memories ruining my day once a week, this truly is the future.
[QUOTE=Region;42004582]Maybe part replacements for brains MIGHT work.
If a guy loses like 10 percent of his brain, they'll replace that 10 percent with a blank slate that he can add memory to.
Here's an analogy:
A computer has 3 HDDs. One breaks down. All the data is lost. So they replace it. At least now it has 3 HDDs again that can be used to store more data.
Im kinda talkin outta my ass. You guys get my drift though right?[/QUOTE]
brains aren't computers though. you can't replace certain sections without consequence like you can a computer.
[QUOTE=amorax;42001736]How do you know they're incapable of thought? If they're not capable of thought they wouldn't make very good brains and they wouldn't be capable of replacing rats and mice as this article says they would be able to. Essentially, even if they're not capable of thought now, which I doubt anyway (researchers would have an incentive to lie over issues such as these anyway), they will be at some point in the future, and how they will be treated at such a point is not described above.[/QUOTE]
are you capable of thought
read the article
[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;42011354]I wonder if brains like that could eventually be used as organic processors?[/QUOTE]rev up those Servitors
:V Why do you post my brain scans
[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;42011354]I wonder if brains like that could eventually be used as organic processors?[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't those be kinda crap though?
How long before we get one of these?
[img]http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110801195126/fallout/images/d/d7/Robobrain.png[/img]
If the brain cells can live indefinitely this will be great in developing brain chip interfaces.
[QUOTE=Lemonator;42003652]people like u are the reason why modern biological experiments aren't performed because of your stupid ethics, "oh my god some pink blob is suffering it must be terrible, cancel science forever"[/QUOTE]
I wish Cave Johnson was here. He would be proud.
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[QUOTE=Ithon;42016425]If the brain cells can live indefinitely this will be great in developing brain chip interfaces.[/QUOTE]
Some scientist recently worked on DNA storage device. So we now can store digital files like movies, images, etc... into DNA and genes. I really want to know where all of this is going.
The first step towards Servators.
[QUOTE=Gunner th;42016935]The first step towards Servators.[/QUOTE]
but that means we have to go through the whole Men of Iron machine revolt thing first and shit
[QUOTE='[Green];42001543']Oh god, pls no.
How about replacement brains for Alzheimer patients?
Maybe?[/QUOTE]
While it's a 'tad more complicated than that, you could think of the human body like a shell, and the human brain as us, the things that we really are. It's like the body is a robot, and our brain is a little guy sitting in the robots head, pulling levers to make it work.
Once again, there's a lot more to it, but that's just so it's easy to understand, if you transplanted a brain, you would essentially kill the patient, and just put some other brain, a different person, in that body, that "shell" that once belonged and was controlled by your actual patient.
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[QUOTE=Lemonator;42003652]people like u are the reason why modern biological experiments aren't performed because of your stupid ethics, "oh my god some pink blob is suffering it must be terrible, cancel science forever"[/QUOTE]
stem cells? OH NO THEY ARE KILLING BABIES
Imagine a world where the doctors recommend you make a full back-up of your brain every half a year, so that in case a disaster happens and makes you mentally impaired, you may opt to replace the damaged part of your brain with the one grown in a vat and pre-programmed with your latest brain scan.
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