• Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I think you people are vastly overestimating how much we actually know about the brain or severely underestimating how freaking complex it is.

    The “you” reading this right now, is a fucking stack of six A4 sized sheets, each one nanometers thick, and crumpled into something which, by all appearances, looks to an external observer as an oversized walnut seed, cooled and maintained by a network of 400 miles capillaries, and isolated from the world by the blood brain barrier, which can only be described as a fucking miracle.

    No. No one is going to be implanting any memories soon

    • stinky@redlemmy.com
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      AI is better at recognizing patterns than we are. The brain may be unfathomable to us, but technology already exists which could recognize the signals in your brain that represent memories and reproduce or alter them.

      Neuralink and similar devices are being used right now, today, to record the thoughts of animals. The first neuralink patient is alive and well, meaning it’s already being used on humans.

      Do you really think this technology won’t exist in our lifetime?