Will the artificial brain ever be possible?

Question

Definately an argument whether or not you would ever WANT an artifical brain. Will thoughts be changed? or even Available?

Answer 1

Once we figure out how our own works it could be possible I'd think. As long as it uses the same logic as a living animal it would adapt as we do.

Answer 2

Unless we get into the habit of repeatedly replacing ever decaying neural tissue and change the fundamentals of human genetics... yeah I think I would like an artificial brain (or parts artificial). Dying is not a fun prospect.

Is it possible? Well, the brains structure cannot be mimicked very well with current serial processor designs. A computing revolution would have to take place as well as significant advances in nanotechnology.

Extracting the human mind into an artifical shell would prove to be impossibly difficult; Trillions of connections, all of which are local, would have be quantified and coded.

Answer 3

There are many theories that may be proven in the future but i personnaly dont think an artificial brain is possible because a brain is not only used for thinking but for emotions, perception, intuition and logic unlike the computer that functions by the book that was used to make it. If the book wrote to the computer 1+1 = 3 the computer will always answear 1+ 1 = 3 and will never change until reprogrammed because it doesnt think it just follows orders like a slave.

Answer 4

There's nothing fundamentally impossible about "robotic sentience", with autonomous intelligence and will. it's inevitable. Lots of people love to believe that there's something special, untouchable, and unrepeatable about the human mind, but, really, there is no sharp boundary between the complexity of the brains of a worm and that of a human. Computers already can do a better job of thinking and being more creative than a worm, so it's only a matter of time they reach to the level of humans. It's just wishful thinking that this cannot ever happen, as if there's some mysterious boundary that stops this from ever happening.

Answer 5

Nothing is imposible with the advances of modern science and the will of producing such a acomplex organ as the brain. (which perhaps at this point, is the most complex of them all). and we could implant a good one to very many a stupid irrational politician......(I guess they are prone to improve if they have ONE....even if its the first they do have),,,,,,.
However, we are very meny decades away of achieving such a task, because:

1.- We still have a lot to learn asn reserch about the thousands (literaly) of functions and relations to structures of the NORMAL human brain, ans there are so very many functions, (like secretory increase of certain hormones in thenrain during the sleep), just to put an easy example of thousands..that, trying to make an ARTIFICIAL replica of something that we do nOT understand completely, sounds like utter nonsense,

2,.-We have a lot to learn, about the communication and balance of chemistry and chemcals between neuron and neuron (Neurotransmitters), that we will have to mimic and reproduce, that we could end up failing before we start..

3.-Modern neurology, is ONLY about 55-60 years old (jusr take a look to your basic physiology books), and thus, we are still, in the beginning of understanding the basics of very many process and its abnormalities......letting alone to copy or reproducing something that as yet we dont fully understand..

4.-If anything, we will be able to understand, the physics of the interphase between neuron and nanotransistors,,,,its an area which is still being born----however it has already been used to bring very crude sight of shadows to blind people) and implants of the acoustic organ (cochlea) that allows us to hear,,,,implanted in the inner ear.....

5,-If we get to synthesize a part of the brain, it will have very limited functions as compared with the normal human brain..
Because of the limitations limited above..... (like capacity, interaction of one group ofcells with others, and influence on the organs of the rest of the body)....

6.- There are some parts of the brain, which are relatively "silent", and have important correcting or balancing functions, that we still do not know as yet....just think of parkinson and schyzophrenia, both imbalanves of chemicals and or communication among neurons, and you will get the picture)

7.- The list can go on and on....however in the world nothing is impossible, even less so, for true investigative positive science....my ONLY point is that, with actual knowledge, we are still very, very far away in time before we achieve such a complex result,,,,,,

PS I am not pesimistic, jut trying to be sincere....

Answer 6

Well some argue that a computer is a sort of artifical brain, to bad it crashes every other day.

Answer 7

Yeah, you're right. Why would we want an artificial brain. By the way, a computer is an artificial brain isn't it?

Answer 8

Yes. But, first we will have a computer aided brain..(basically, a computer that will help you remember everything that you see, hear, etc..) and at some point in time, we humans won't be able to tell where the computer stops and the brain begins...

Answer 9

well, we won't have any realistic artificial brains until about two years from now. a bunch of neuroscientists and robo-engineers and others are teaming up in (i think) sweden to create an artificial robot brain which will cause behaviors indistinguishable from that of humans, sort of like in "I, Robot"

Answer 10

I think it's much too complex to recreate. We could possibly create logic and choice but emotions are very complex. I don't think you could put an artificial brain in someone with out it resembling a VERY mentally ill person.