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Excited for BCIs
| As for the amazing and/or scary things BCIs can do, let me list a few. On the awesome side, they can give us better control over our bodies than ever before, they will allow communication to be instant and unlimited, and the thing I am most excited for, they can take virtual reality ten levels further. A virtual reality that immerses all five senses, where you are actually in the game and can do things like walk around without walking in real life.
| Now, for the terrifying and thought provoking things it can do. So, a BCI needs to scan every neuron in the brain, understand what that means, turn it into computer input, then take computer output, convert it to "brain code" and activate the required neurons to complete the objective. Even at the base level, this can get chaotic. If it can scan your brain and understand what each neuron does, it can recreate your brain easily.
| If at some point we can take that copy and make a real functioning brain, we could put it into a machine and essentially copy you to a new body. This means two things, take a well made anime character model, now make it life-size and give it the motor functions of a human, you can now litterally have the body of that anime character. Second, now there are two of you and it provokes the question of who is the real one? If you think that's easy, (cont)
| Imagine a copy of you telling you you are the fake, and no matter what you believe, there is nothing after death for you, because you are artificial. You would probably deny that you are no longer real, but instead an artificial construct. Solution: destroy the original so there is only one. But you're not truely there anymore, you're truely dead.
There are so many more things cool and scary about BMIs, but those are some things I'm excited for. Share your own expectations/fears.
| >>238079 solution 2: you now have a real best friend who knows everything you like! Why does one of you have to be the fake one? That's an imposition you're putting on you/them. Are you fake because you're the logical progression of a biological process? Is he/she fake just because they were birthed from your memories?
Anyway yeah, what if you start sending control signals with your BCI and IT SENDS STUFF BACK? Stuff you can't control? What if it asserts your will on you?
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Also, you would have different experiences over time so you would not be the same. The talk is only about your brain's structure, memories andexperiences are a big part of being an individual.
This is just my position, though, and I don't really know much about the current and possible evolutions of the technology.
You could read Battle Angel Alita series to get some of these ideas explored.
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| BCIs (Brain-Computer Interface), or BMIs (Brain-Machine Interface), are a device that simply connects your brain to a machine. There are a few that exist already, and soon they are expected to do things like give someon an arm they lost that's as versatile as a real one. These are the accepted important things they can do, but they can do so much more. Anybody else welcoming the nightmare of problems they will cause with open arms?