Neuroscience has come a long way, and so has artificial intelligence. In the future there is no doubt in my mind that our personal tech devices will have controllable features through thought command processing. Today, we have voice recognition systems which help us with phone numbers, or pull up a name in our smartphone's database, or even search online. That's nice, as it is human centric, and user-friendly no doubt, but that's hardly where it's going to stop.
In fact, huge advances have been made in neuroscience, which allow people to control wheelchairs, and prosthesis merely by thought. Eventually, we will be able to thought swap, and text messaging will be a joke of the past. You will be able to sign up and put your friends on your thought swapping social network. Of course, hopefully by that time they will figure out how to stop the hackers, otherwise they will start hacking your mind. That wouldn't be funny.
Just to give you an idea of how fast neuroscience has come, I'd like to review something that was recently in the news, well at least science news that is. As Okay so, on June 17, 2011, I was reading another interesting article in Kurzweil's Accelerating Intelligence Online News titled; "Artificial Hippocampal System Restores Long-Term Memory, Enhances Cognition" and in the article it stated;
"Artificial hippocampal system restores long-term memory capability (credit: USC Viterbi School of Engineering). Theodore Berger and his team at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Department of Biomedical Engineering have developed a neural prosthesis for rats that is able to restore their ability to form long-term memories after they had been pharmacologically blocked."
Well then, if you know anything about neuroscience, this is quite fascinating but then it got me thinking. Why can't we add a second brain, more storage capacity? We have brain stem cells, and we could grow them in a small enclosure, and then later put that enclosure or protective case with the add-on brain inside and hook it up to the brainstem. Can you imagine if you had a secondary brain which had the same or more storage capacity?
It's not as if there isn't space for a second brain, perhaps in a different shape, inside of your chest cavity, or in place of all that extra fat that you're growing. This might seem far-fetched, but imagine a brain twice the size, you'd be able to store more information, and divide up processing tasks. In fact, I just bet your first brain would figure out what to use it for once it had the additional capacity. This could be quite incredible. Indeed I hope you will please consider all that think on it.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 23,777 articles by 7 PM on June 27, 2011 is going to be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..
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