Backup Brain

In my last post I mentioned the work of Dr. Amen. Something that he does to evaluate your needs is to do a brain scan. This got me thinking, “What if we start substituting computer chips for portions of our brain when it goes bad?” When we find a way to accurately map the brain and find interfaces between the different centers we should be able to connect to it and record its activity. If we do this before we age and the computer chip learns to imitate that part of our brain then we will have a drop-in replacement when it fails. Ultimately our entire brain (and bodies) will fail due to aging. But what if by this time we have created an artificial substitute? This raises some issues for sure. If this becomes possible how do we define who we are or when (if ever) our life ends. Perhaps we just end up with a computer that mimics our thought process. Which leads me to another thought, “Could we take the thought processes of the world’s wisest people and combine them into one very intelligent machine?” Perhaps then we will have Multivac.

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