If you have a liver transplant, or even an artificial implant, would you still the same person that you? Superficial Some people want to test this assumption, but most of us will respond with a resounding yes. Well, what if you received a marrow transplant, or, heaven tremble, an 'artificial' brains? You would be the same person?
I feel a moment of awkward silence, followed by a dismissal that something "just science fiction. But an artificial brain will probably never become science fact and the present crude computer chips that work by mimicking the synapses development of a neural network.
Viewed from other directions, chips implanted in brains that can upload and download data and programs are actually in the factory. Somehow we all feel it is our brains that makes us. But is that true? The brain is as far as science dares profile, and even the doubting Thomas' of us know that science has nothing to say about the soul realm of the mind, or metaphysics. For this area was too late in the competition by his own definition.
Certainly the talent is where we all have our memories of events, people and emotions to save it. Emotions themselves have proven to activate (or activate, depending on one's perspective) Specific parts of the brain and certain levels of chemicals in the brain too. Of all the memories and emotions in the brain, are also constantly redefining and identifying 'themselves. "But is that all we?
A group of data from memory to activate the chemical reaction cascade of electrical wires called neurons? I quote a famous poem "Do not fear those who kill in the flesh, better equipped for one that can steal your soul." I have no scientific evidence to back, but it seems much more sense to me than the first proposal.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
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