http://www.kurzweilai.net/immortality-wars-digital-novel Accelerating Intelligence Thu, 23 May 2013 11:16:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.kurzweilai.net/immortality-wars-digital-novel/comment-page-1#comment-20078 B.J. Murphy Sat, 23 Jun 2012 02:26:11 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=154067#comment-20078 This is to assume that the brain isn't re-engineered mechanically and operates via artificial intelligence. If we could recreate the entire brain, bit by bit, and then start replacing each piece of your brain bit by bit by said re-engineered brain, then who's to say that we won't be able to accomplish methods of solving the very problems a biological brain faces, as you'd pointed out? This is to assume that the brain isn’t re-engineered mechanically and operates via artificial intelligence. If we could recreate the entire brain, bit by bit, and then start replacing each piece of your brain bit by bit by said re-engineered brain, then who’s to say that we won’t be able to accomplish methods of solving the very problems a biological brain faces, as you’d pointed out?

]]> http://www.kurzweilai.net/immortality-wars-digital-novel/comment-page-1#comment-19597 Ralph Dratman Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:56:03 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=154067#comment-19597 Even if physical life extension were to become available, most brains would still go bad beyond about 100 years. Keeping the brain healthy is going to be far more difficult than keeping the heart beating and the kidneys filtering. One big problem is that the brain cannot be taken offline for more than a few seconds before hypoxia begins to cause damage. If you could not shut your computer down for cleaning and repairing without destroying all the programs and data, computers would certainly not last for 100 years! Even if physical life extension were to become available, most brains would still go bad beyond about 100 years. Keeping the brain healthy is going to be far more difficult than keeping the heart beating and the kidneys filtering. One big problem is that the brain cannot be taken offline for more than a few seconds before hypoxia begins to cause damage. If you could not shut your computer down for cleaning and repairing without destroying all the programs and data, computers would certainly not last for 100 years!

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