X-Message-Number: 13647 From: Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 08:14:42 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #13629 and learning to read brain << HOWEVER, to be revived in a computer form does not look very likely at all without much more understanding of how brains themselves work. No doubt, if we DO understand that, we might make devices which will imitate brains at the proper level. (Notice I said "devices", not computers. >> A quantum nondemolition brain reader is not a product you buy in the supermarket. It must be created step by step. At each level, a partial machine will be tested on some samples. In the process we will learn to build the next step AND something on brain structure. This point is a fundamental one: Creating a QND brain reader is both: a technological adventure and a brain research. When the full system will be ready we will know how the brain works. Computers will be usefull for raw data processing, not to run the brain itself. Yvan Bozzonetti. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13647