And yes, I am quite aware that chemicals play a role in who we are as well. But these chemicals serve only to activate other electrical pulses. It stands to reason that the job of chemicals and other biological materials can be outsourced. Do you see this as a possibility? Any ideas as to how it can be achieved?
Biological Computers
Computer Brain Interface
like something out a ghost in the shell? that would be cool.
Mobile Computing Technology
We aren’t “essentially electrical”. We have electrical impulses throughout our body, but not all energy is electrical as I am assuming you are referring to interactions on the atomic level. In truth it can’t really be said that we are matter OR energy or even both.
I do see a possility of nano technology monitoring the entire physiology of a human in real time and translating it into binary (or trinary if they decide to go that route as they should).
Computer Human Interface
Well, if you talk to a “trans-humanist” you would probably get a “yes”, but I really don’t think this is too possible at least not in the near future…
Personal Supercomputer
If you asking if there is a possibility that eventually a bio mechanical android with a personality will ever exist the answer … maybe. It really depends on what you are really referring to when you ask about creating something that is “human” or has “personality”
One of the things that makes us human is our self awareness. That will be the big question. Will artificial intelligence advance so far that computers or an android become self aware?
When you consider the advances that we have made in technology and science just over the last 1000 years it would be foolish for anyone to say that these things will never happen.
Head Computers
First, there’s the problem of signal types. Most computer development has been digital; everything is expressed as complex assemblages of signals that have only two states (off and on, charged and uncharged, magnetized or not, and so forth depending on the specific technique used). But our electrical impulses are almost certainly not resolvable or easily approximated in digital formats, and analog computers (dealing with signal ranges) are generally not as well developed.
Even if some representation were achieved which suited the general characteristics of human nervous systems, and we were to reach a point where we could load a representation of a human brain’s activities and current state into some artificial device, I suspect it would not be the equivalent of its original model. There is a phenomenon known as the “butterfly effect” in chaos theory: it refers to cases in which very tiny, effectively undetectable differences between one situation and another nevertheless produce, in the long run, completely different results, because differences, no matter how small, tend to lead to divergence over time.
Many are unaware that the original discovery of the butterfly effect occurred when someone who had been studying a complex global weather model printed out the numerical state of the program during one run, and later attempted to repeat the model run from the same point by reloading the same values. The results were completely different, because very small differences (round-off on printing out numbers, even with high precision) produced a slightly different state.
That was with digital computers, with which it is theoretically possible to reproduce the program state exactly, by more careful methods than were employed by that weather researcher. With an analog processor, that precision would not even be theoretically possible. A computer version of me, for example, might over time convert to anything from Christian fundamentalism to New Age music fandom to addicted roulette player to Ralph Nader supporter, although I feel it entirely unlikely that the original would do so.
Computer on a Chip
I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking but I think that the answer is yes! The human brain and modern computer technology can interact multidirectionally. That is to say, the brain and the computer can both serve as inputs and outputs in the system. There are two links below that demonstrate these two interactions. The Popular Science article is the one that seems more relevant to your question or maybe the combination of the two is what you’re after. You’re question is asking about the bioengineering but labeled as philosophy (which is really where things get interesting). Given that the “memory hacker” can recreate thoughts the possibility of swapping memories and creating artificial realities becomes terrifyingly feasible. I think that’s the main reason there isn’t more research or media coverage of this sort of thing.
Personal Supercomputer
Oh please cordova. You’re saying YOU are interchangeable with ANY electro chemical creature? How come YOU incarnated into a human vehicle?
Mobile Computing Applications
don’t know about that, but computer had been loaded successfully …onto us and in most cases it takes over our natural programing….
Computer Speech Technology
There’s nothing new…we do it all the time, here!0!