[MURG] Uploading via memory implants?

[Thomas Weber]

 --- Eric Zilli <digfarenough at gmail.com> wrote: 
> a quick note: memories actually are localized:
> visual memories are
> stored in visual association areas, motor memories
> in motor areas,
> etc...
> 
> what's a "memory extension" anyhow?
> 
> I don't think the small percentage of neurons a
> brain implant would
> communicate with would be enough to reproduce much
> of the mind in a
> computer
> > http://www.cyberkineticsinc.com/index.htm), could

Thomas Weber:
Hi Eric,
A year or so ago we had discussed a possibility of
building a brain - computer interface. What I imagined
that time was an electrode array just as ilustrated on
 www.cyberkineticsinc.com. It is called 
Acute Multi Electrode Array. I agree with you that as
small as it is shown it would handle only a small
insufficient percentage of neurons. My question to you
is what do you think would happen if an electrode
array was built to cover almost the entire cortex like
a beret? That time your objection was that the folded
in sections of the brain surface would be missed.
That would still leave some 50% of the cortex in
contact with the electrode array. Suppose we also had
a computer system capable to receive and process the
information from the electrode array.
What do you think would happen if a person was wired
like that?

Kind Regards,
Thomas




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