http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/ Engadget Comments for USC researcher crafting silicon brain cells http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/Apr 7th 2007 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/Apr 14th 2007 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/Apr 7th 2007 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/
What the article is actually saying is that Ted Berger is leading a project to decode the SIGNALS coming out of brain cells not to succesfully interface wetware and hardware.]]>Apr 7th 2007 6:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/Apr 7th 2007 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/Personally my guess is that someday chips like this will allow us to access dormant and unused portions of our brain. Sort of like using the GPU on your PC to do F@H work even though it wasn't originally designed for that.
Think of it as forced evolution through technology. Personally I look forward to the day I can walk into a school sit down, and upload a training manual for [insert difficult subject here that would normally take 3-4 years to learn.] It will probably happen. Just not in any of our lifetimes. Which is a pity.]]>Apr 7th 2007 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/ Chris]]>Apr 7th 2007 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/
If its not broken dont fix it, so they say.]]>Apr 7th 2007 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/Apr 7th 2007 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/Then instead of going to med school and doing research, I would just copy knowledge from my professors and I would be writing my PhD thesis and getting ready for the boards.
You're right though. It probably won't happen in our lifetime, if only because of the aversion to scientific progress that religious fundamentalists have, who unfortunately have a lot of power in societies throughout the world]]>Apr 9th 2007 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/
Think I'll call it *Sylar*...]]>Apr 9th 2007 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/Apr 7th 2007 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/Alzheimer is a prion disease, which means that the proteins will turn each other into beta cross forms in an infectious manner thus no matter what you do to keep the brain function, you'd still have aggregation of solid protein deposit in your brain, which would ultimately result in subdural hematoma.
I believe Alzheimer and other neurodegenerative disease is still years and years from any kind of a reasonable cure and it'll probably come in the form of advancements in embryonic stem cell research. Or perhaps it will come from further study of prion diseases. Computer chips, while it's a fancy idea, is probably not the solution for that particular problem. Who is making this stuff anyway? Are they med school researchers? Biological division researchers?]]>Apr 7th 2007 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/Apr 8th 2007 1:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/usc-researcher-crafting-silicon-brain-cells/Apr 8th 2007 11:38AM