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Present-day neural links '''connect brains and computers but cannot connect minds and computers'''. The mind cannot communicate with computers because it doesn’t function in a digital nor in a (classical) analog way. Thoughts are activation patterns within the memory and processing network. NLs would need to stimulate the correct neurons or even synapses. Sending electromagnetic waves through the brain cannot work as these are by-products of the thought holding neurons. The electromagnetic patterns don’t influence the neurons. That means the entire brain would have to be stuffed with bulky (signal recording and sending) electrodes. Besides triggering muscle movements a NL couldn’t do many other kinds of write operations. For advanced read operations they need an interpreter that is trained for every single human because memories are based on truly individual experiences hence unique neural networks. Gradual improvements are to be expected but a full-fledged satisfying mind-computer-interface will continue to be science fiction for a few more centuries. Therefore, also no external memory soon. | Present-day neural links '''connect brains and computers but cannot connect minds and computers'''. The mind cannot communicate with computers because it doesn’t function in a digital nor in a (classical) analog way. Thoughts are activation patterns within the memory and processing network. NLs would need to stimulate the correct neurons or even synapses. Sending electromagnetic waves through the brain cannot work as these are by-products of the thought holding neurons. The electromagnetic patterns don’t influence the neurons. That means the entire brain would have to be stuffed with bulky (signal recording and sending) electrodes. Besides triggering muscle movements a NL couldn’t do many other kinds of write operations. For advanced read operations they need an interpreter that is trained for every single human because memories are based on truly individual experiences hence unique neural networks. Gradual improvements are to be expected but a full-fledged satisfying mind-computer-interface will continue to be science fiction for a few more centuries. Therefore, also no external memory soon. | ||
: To make it crystal clear: Electromagnetic waves are by-products and by nature "output-only". You can kind of spy on them. But that's it. Otherwise, you would go crazy by "[[wp:de:Elektrosmog|electrosmog]]" or all the more by MRT in hospitals. Telepathy based on technology is millenniums away. The best workaround would be to capture faint signals of the "inner voice", translate them to audio signals and inject them into the acoustic nerve of an communication partner or a small hearing device. | : To make it crystal clear: Electromagnetic waves are by-products and by nature "output-only". You can kind of spy on them. But that's it. Otherwise, you would go crazy by "[[wp:de:Elektrosmog|electrosmog]]" or all the more by MRT in hospitals. Telepathy based on technology is millenniums away. The best workaround would be to capture faint signals of the "inner voice", translate them to audio signals and inject them into the acoustic nerve of an communication partner or a small hearing device. | ||
==Technologies not quite existing in RS== | |||
===Time travel=== | |||
While "traveling forward in time" equals to "just wait in hibernation" or fly nearly at the speed of light going back in time doesn't seem possible. | |||
* If there is only one possible present traveling back in time would require so much energy to undo all kind of movement and processes of all objects in the universe. Energy-wise it is not possible. And some processes are simply [[wp:Irreversible_process|irreversible]]. | |||
** If there is a multiverse then infinite possibilities and therefore infinite timelines exist. The smallest change has an effect. It would mean that you cannot control where you jump to nor can you get back into the original timeline. | |||
* Furthermore the location and time of the out point cannot be precisely calculated - if at all - as the planet is in unknown motion made up by it's own spin motion, orbiting the sun, orbiting in the galaxy core, orbiting in the cluster core, moving within the filament. The outpoint might be a massive plantar or stellar object or in the depth of galactic voids resulting in death of the traveler. | |||
==Discussion== | ==Discussion== | ||