[ExI] How to pre-empt the singularity was Re: Column- "Why the Singularity isn't going to happen"

[Alan Grimes]

> Currently I think that switching to working on brain-machine interface
> would be the best way for me. With further advances in neural stem
> cell manipulation we should be able to design cells capable of growing
> axons and dendrites in the adult central nervous system, and
> interfacing with both existing neural structures and with implanted
> communication devices. This type of technology would allow massively
> parallel monitoring of human neural network traffic at the single
> synapse level, with multiple readouts from each cortical column, as
> well as manipulation of traffic with addressing of specific synapses.
> It would have many orders of magnitude more comm bandwidth than
> current BMI devices. Algorithms that reconstruct functionally
> equivalent or quasi-equivalent networks from a sufficient sample of
> network traffic already exist, at least if you have some idea of the
> structure of the network's nodes, and for the brain we do. My skills
> in molecular biology would be somewhat useful in parts of the project,
> so I could transition into the effort without having to make a total
> break with my current mindset.

I had the exact same idea about 5 years ago. I have a mailing list,
thresearch at yahoogroups.com

> Eventually, it should be in this way possible to upload an adult human
> mind into a non-biological substrate while maintaining legal person
> continuity - have upload neural implant sprout through your aging
> brain and take over increasing fractions of processing, until your
> body is just a puppet your mostly uploaded and vastly expanded mind is
> using to make legal claims on its own behalf.

Yep, that's the way to do it. (some minor details notwithstanding...)


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