On 16 Mar 2003 at 17:06, Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote: > >From: "Han Tacoma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >The World's First Brain Prosthesis > > > >By DUNCAN GRAHAM-ROWE > > > Posts like these are one of the reasons for being addicted to the > list. Thanks, Han. > > > > >Any device that mimics the brain clearly raises ethical issues. The > >brain not only affects memory, but your mood, awareness and > >consciousness - parts of your fundamental identity, says ethicist > >Joel Anderson at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. > > >From the article, I understand clearly that the job of the > >hippocampus > appears to be to "encode" experiences so they can be stored as > long-term memories elsewhere in the brain. I also understand that the > research team is merely (allegedly) copying its' behavior. But > reading about the proposed accuracy of performance of this prosthesis, > I can't help but wonder about the fact that if we can break down into > such detail the structure of memory patterns, could we apply this > technology into simulating them so much that we can implant new ones > that may or may have not existed?
The problem is "what is memory". We don't really understand much about memory in the context of how the brain actually *stores* it. Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
