since brain signals and electric currents are essentially the same thing (electricity) would it be possible to connect to, or otherwise send your own "self" into a computer or program?
If so why hasn't anyone looked into it ?
2007-02-08 12:37:11 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
"Self" is a very big word for being only 4 letters long.
If you are talking about a virtual "you", yes, theoretically very possible, tho we haven't yet mastered the mystery of how to connect 100 billion threshold-energized pulse generators in the same manner as the brain, let alone emulate it. Were you to precisely duplicate your own hardware in a machine, you'd have a machine that believed it was you, with all your experience and memories. But it wouldn't be you, obviously - your consciousness would still reside in your own brain, and last I heard, there is no single area of the brain that is the organ of consciosness. What it takes, other than a complete brain transplant, to move a consciosness from one being or device to another is a very important question no one has yet been able to answer. Your question has sent me to wikipedia's entry for "consciousness".
2007-02-08 15:36:47 · answer #1 · answered by Gary H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's possible but the technology isn't there yet. First of all there's the problem that there are 10 billion neurons in your brain. But there's no reason we wouldn't eventually be able to either construct an artificial brain and scan our consciousness into it or create a computer simulation of a brain and scan ourselves into that. It will probably take a few decades. I'd be surprised if it took more than 50 years.
2007-02-08 12:47:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋