To use an analogy, the kind of brain modifications we’re talking about would be the kind of modifications you’d have to do to a 286 in order to play Crysis (a very high-end game) on it.
If I’m not mistaken, as far as raw computing power goes, the human brain is more powerful than a 286. The question is—and this is something I’m honestly wondering—whether it’s feasible, given today’s technology, to turn the brain into something that can actually use that power in a fashion that isn’t horribly indirect. Every brain is powerful enough to play dual 35-back perfectly (if I had access to brain-making tools, I imagine I could make a dual 35-back player using a mere 70,000 neurons); it’s simply not sufficiently well-organized.
If your answer to the above is “no way José”, please say why. “It’s not designed for that” is not sufficient; things do things they weren’t designed to do all the time.
To use an analogy, the kind of brain modifications we’re talking about would be the kind of modifications you’d have to do to a 286 in order to play Crysis (a very high-end game) on it.
If I’m not mistaken, as far as raw computing power goes, the human brain is more powerful than a 286. The question is—and this is something I’m honestly wondering—whether it’s feasible, given today’s technology, to turn the brain into something that can actually use that power in a fashion that isn’t horribly indirect. Every brain is powerful enough to play dual 35-back perfectly (if I had access to brain-making tools, I imagine I could make a dual 35-back player using a mere 70,000 neurons); it’s simply not sufficiently well-organized.
If your answer to the above is “no way José”, please say why. “It’s not designed for that” is not sufficient; things do things they weren’t designed to do all the time.