X-Message-Number: 20975 From: Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:40:10 EST Subject: Brain link --part1_12b.2127188f.2b654d4a_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My problem here is: If a brain may be scanned so that its content can be built back and run in an electronics system, can we next do the inverse operation, namely downloading the electronics information in a biological brain? A very advanced solution would to use 3D modeler to make an atom sharp picture of the original brain, load that in an analog quantum computer and then use a form of quantum entanglement to copy that structure in a "blank" brain: The ultimate brain washing technology :-) We may think of that as a potential technology, but assume we have some money to spent on the problem today, where do we start? There is no clear program able to connect the present day state of affairs with that dream tech. My personnal feeling is that simple entanglement is too frail to be extended to the mass and volume of a full brain at room temperature. So, sorry to come back with that subject, but nonlocal fields and non continuous ones seem a requirement before anything more can be done in that domain. I turn now to a more simpler solution. I have said how a micrometer scale printed circuit could be built from clay crystals. The idea is to use that technology to build a two ways radio link. On face 1 of the flat crystal there would be both, a fractal antenna for microwaves and a capacitor to gauge the nearby electrical field. On face 2, a rectifier would produce an electric current from the wave received in the antenna. That electric current would power a digital receptor and an emitter. A chemical marker would be fixed on the crystal so it would get fixed on a neuron receptor of a given kind. A number of devices, with tags for different neuro-receptors would be injected in the brain. They would be attracted and get fixed on their neuron target. Powered from outside by a radio wave, they would broadcast the electrochemical activity they sense in their environment in messages including an individual code. Outside, an interferometric receptor would recive the message, localize the source and identify the code. So the information recovered would be in the form: Crystal number X has seen the electrochemical activity Y at site Z. An exterior broadcaster could then send the message V with code W so that only the internal receptor W use it. This system would link many, may be most, neurons in a brain to an exterior, electronics system. The message Y at site Z in the brain would so go not only to the next neuron, but too at a group of artificial neurons in an electronics device. The output of these neurons would then be sent back in the brain. One use would be to expand the brain power. Here, the artificial neurons would contain no information at start, they would be only brute force power, every information and trainning would come from biological neurons in the original brain. Another possibility is that the electronics neurons have the content of a brain. The biological brain could be build from recently differenciated stem cells and have no information in it. The biological "zombi" brain would then be trainned by the electronics part. The main advantage of that technology in the short term is that we know how to start with it: Buy a phase contrast microscope to select a kind of clay crystals. Move to electron scanning device to see the crystal surface at near atomic resolution. Use an atomic force microscope and "laser cooking" to shape the surface so electronics components can fall in their intended case. Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_12b.2127188f.2b654d4a_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20975