If you could get your brain replaced/upgraded with high tech computer components...

[rollerskate]

... would you? Why or why not?

If you would, what would you get done? Complete replacement (while maintaining your current knowledge and memories of course)? Some form of upgrade(s) only?

I would at the very least definitely upgrade my ability to learn and memory. I would love to have faster information processing power and lightning fast, permanent, instantly accessible storage of the information consumed. Because I can't learn fast enough to please myself. And my short term memory sucks, which makes it harder to get things in to my long term memory.

 

[bentHnau]

No. Machinery requires maintenance.

 

[ExplosiveTMT]

I would put Wikipedia stuff into my brain on a chip so I can cheat in school exams!

 

[Randomperson]

... would you? Why or why not?

If you would, what would you get done? Complete replacement (while maintaining your current knowledge and memories of course)? Some form of upgrade(s) only?

I would at the very least definitely upgrade my ability to learn and memory. I would love to have faster information processing power and lightning fast, permanent, instantly accessible storage of the information consumed. Because I can't learn fast enough to please myself. And my short term memory sucks, which makes it harder to get things in to my long term memory.

Currently, no, solid state hard drives are the fastest read and write speed, but they only give you 5 years coverage before the things failing is on you to replace them, so you would not only need backup drives/cloud access, but every 5 years or sooner you would need your head opened up to replace the drives. Also, the sheer amount of information our neurons can store, TB size drives would not even dent it, the bit system just is not up to snuff in comparison to brain tissue.

If we had better tech like "Ghost in the Shell" I might consider it, but even in that sci fi world problems crop up from having a computer brain, including a disease that kills people with the cyber brains.

 

[StephF]

I'm like Johnny Mnemonic. I can memorize loads of stuff but then I max out my storage capacity and stuff starts to leak randomly.

 

[Nitro]

I'm already overclocked from the ASD factory...the RAM is unparalleled,the hard disc has no limits and the processor runs at lightning speeds...

I want to keep what I have intact.

 

[2aspirin]

I'm already overclocked from the ASD factory...the RAM is unparalleled,the hard disc has no limits and the processor runs at lightning speeds...

I want to keep what I have intact.

I might need a better video card than the organic one. Need some hardware to process signals to better run some organic apps. Definitely need some plug ins. And a new cooling fan. I am always overheated and my organic hard drive would sound like a jet taking off if it made a noise like its non-organic counterparts.

My organic system has great processing power but trouble with discrete input and so my operating system could use an upgrade to run more programs in a variety of code language if this might help with recognition of short script inputs. If that makes sense.

 

[rollerskate]

This is assuming futuristic tech, not current...

Currently, no, solid state hard drives are the fastest read and write speed, but they only give you 5 years coverage before the things failing is on you to replace them, so you would not only need backup drives/cloud access, but every 5 years or sooner you would need your head opened up to replace the drives. Also, the sheer amount of information our neurons can store, TB size drives would not even dent it, the bit system just is not up to snuff in comparison to brain tissue.

If we had better tech like "Ghost in the Shell" I might consider it, but even in that sci fi world problems crop up from having a computer brain, including a disease that kills people with the cyber brains.

 

[rollerskate]

Exactly why this question was asked...

I'm like Johnny Mnemonic. I can memorize loads of stuff but then I max out my storage capacity and stuff starts to leak randomly.

 

[Nitro]

If we are talking futuristic,will downloading a cool program for yourself from an unsavory website still come packaged with a virus or will that part on the 'net be fixed by then?

"Stay away from that website whatever you do...last time I got a program from there it got cooties"

 

[apsie]

Absolutely. I don't see the difference.
I'm not spiritual at all, I don't believe in souls or anything allong those lines that could pose possible moral dilemmas.
I'm not sure if we'll ever be able to make computers with higher capacity then our brains, yet still able to fit in our skull.

 

[Randomperson]

Absolutely. I don't see the difference.
I'm not spiritual at all, I don't believe in souls or anything allong those lines that could pose possible moral dilemmas.
I'm not sure if we'll ever be able to make computers with higher capacity then our brains, yet still able to fit in our skull.

If/when we get out of the severely limiting binary/bit system, the brain is not overly complex compared to what we put into computers, it just works better on less power, we should be working on figuring out exactly how and why the brain works as it does and copy it.

 

[StephF]

Google Brain 1.0 Beta. Upload yourself into the cloud. I quite like the ideas in Lawnmower Man and Neuromancer.

 

[Randomperson]

The major problem I see with uploading most of you into the cloud, is once you are there you will go to the p0rn0 sites and all get fatal virus's.

 

[StephF]

Hell no, I will kick seven bells out of those virii unless they have to be Chinese ones. I feel like Case in Neuromancer, I'm sure someone has infected me with neurotoxins most days. Where are you, Molly ?
(A few Neuromancer references there )