If your brain is controlling your computer, who's controlling your brain?

Question

Last week, researchers at Washington University unveiled a new mind-control computer system. Traditional mind-control systems – and the fact that any mind-control system can be referred to as "traditional" shows you how nuts-deep into the future we already are – require the user to don an EEG skullcap before thinking very hard about specific actions. The resultant brainwaves are then crudely interpreted and the device reacts accordingly.

http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21876.aspx

Which is where electrocorticography comes in. Electrocorticography basically means "sticking sensors directly on to the surface of the brain". Once you've done that, you get a far more reliable signal. Already they've had volunteers controlling an onscreen cursor by imagining different vowel sounds. As soon as they refine it further, giving the user the ability to steer the pointer around and click on things, the days of mass-market Wi-Fi mind-controlled iPads will be upon us.

Imagine, contents of your brain downloaded or transferred to a hard drive and when bodily death occurs a new one is made from cloned DNA and the contents uploaded... Eternal life. 120 years from now this will be standard for the elite and rich ..humanity will become 2 races, the eternals and mere mortals.

An exciting new development to look foreward to?

Answer 1

I do wish they'd stop running these back to back repeats of The Matrix, must admit I've watched most of them more than once but normally a year or so apart, it is obviously giving some people delusions!

Answer 2

Your brain controls you, your actions and your thoughts. Without a brain you are basically dead, if your brain is damaged or hurt, you are basically in coma or paralyzed. You cant control your brain cause that requires thought, and thought is controlled by the brain itself, everything we do is controlled by the brain, its the control center of the human body, and the heart is the second most important, kind of like an engine to keep body parts running.

Answer 3

The soul is not transferable to a computer chip. The way this scam works is to get people to believe that silicon chips will slowly replace the human body until the mind is in the chip. Actually the first chip that everyone takes (for the purpose of connecting to the global system) will be the mark of the beast.

Answer 4

ha ha complete nonsense, your mind doesn't control stuff like false arms and legs but electrical impulse does. have you seen how stilted it works in practise anyway.



and as for downloading consciousness forget it no hard rive or cpu is fast enough.. brains don't have a cpu anyhow..



pipe dream that looks good on paper and in the movies.. ai is generations of engineering away. 120 years is very very optimistic, biology would be a better bet for continued existence for the filthy rich.

Answer 5

Well, the easy answer would be that you are controlling your own brain. I think that past experience and events witnessed subconsciously steer our minds to make certain decisions.

Answer 6

My brain has enough to do maintaining an autonomic nervous system going interactive with the lap-top & I might forget to breathe.

LOL

Answer 7

Dear god can you imagine seeing into the minds of others? particularly when you see some of the posts on here (this is supposed to be a fair representation of the UK population) in some cases it would be like looking into a bucket of worms and maggots churning away.



Progress is one thing but it can go too far.

Answer 8

so, you die and you have backed up your hard drive, but where is the actual body coming from. i'm lost.

Answer 9

Er, no!! Have you not seen the matrix?

Answer 10

the media innit

Answer 11

YOUR SOUL.

Answer 12

god knows!