[MURG] Uploading via memory implants?

[Thomas Weber]

 Eugen Leitl:
> The brain is a volume, your array is a surface.
> 
> > is what do you think would happen if an electrode
> > array was built to cover almost the entire cortex
> like
> 
> Ah, an armchair neurosurgeon. Do you realize that
> the brain has the
> consistency of a jelly, is encased in dura mater,
> and is 
> semifloating in liquor?

Thomas Weber:
Of course I realize that the brain is a jelly
semifloating in ... liquor.
 
> > a beret? That time your objection was that the
> folded
> > in sections of the brain surface would be missed.
>
 Eugen:
> You would be missing the entire volume.

Thomas: Yes I agree, we would be missing the entire
volume, but we would have access to a large section of
the surface. And the surface is where some the brain
activities can be intercepted. Also anylysing only the
top one of the six layers of the cortex alone can be
non invadive to the brain tissue. The scull would
still have to be opened to gain access to the cortex.
I guess it could be called semi - invadive.
>
Thomas: 
> > 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?
>
Eugen: 
> You had a heck of an I/O interface, and could record
> really detailed activity
> patterns.
> 
> What did you think would happen?

Thomas:
That's exactly what I thought would happen! You could
record really detailed activity patterns!
I am very intrigued, because I believe in mind
uploading as a transfer of constructive activity from
the brain to an electronic system - computer.
 
Such a gradual tranfer could be conducted via
accessible part of the brain - in our case 50% of the
brain surface.

Kind Regards,
Thomas Weber
> 
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