Science News Comments 2006-10-13
Hey if a analog neuron-network of a living organism (rat) can do it better than a moder digital computer, lets make a machine out of it! Seems cool. Don’t let it become sapient if it is to be treated as machine slave property though. Digital will surpass analog though. Analog is just the quick way to things. Like the first Radio and TV, and even VGA graphics. All of it ultimiatly went digital (conventional VGA monitor connectors are analog, Hercules/CGA/EGA were digital, DVI is replacing conventional VGA connectors). Organic brains are on the verge of obsolescence. It Doesn’t mean that we can’t exploit and reverse engineer algorithms out of current analog technology that God has created though for humanity’s digital creations. He maybe earth2/heaven2 (bible / revelation) will be a digital universe rather than an analog one (Superstrings in quantum physics seem very analog to me).
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Hasn’t shown that brain cells reproduce - mitosis - replication of the core neuron and it’s nucleus after the first early years of life. It only shows existing neurons growing more and larger interconnections.
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This looks more useful in creating machines with analog bio-brain computers with a controlled level of sapiance than in actually making human slave drones.
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I have a hard time spontaneously lying. It often creates an overload (High-functing Autism). I can be a very good pre-rehearsed lyer though, if there is very relevant previous experience to utilize and manipulate. These lies may not come up on an fMRI seeking certain increased brain activity.
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This volcano may chill the climate and kill tens of millions (milions from ash, tens of millions from rioting/looting, gases, polluted water, cold etc..), but it sure does seem to be responsible for making america’s grain belts as fertile as they are though. I’m pretty sure that little astroid that NASA says will pass within 20,000-40,000 km of the earth in 2030 somewhere could set of this thing off if it hit instead, and hit in the right place. A ground burst nuclear detonation(s) could too.
