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==Present-day neural link== | ==Present-day neural link== | ||
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. | |||
==Discussion== | ==Discussion== | ||