<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>As discussed on "The Journal Editorial Report" this</span></div><div><span>weekend the central planners at the US FDA hold</span></div><div><span>up medical devices sometimes for years in animal</span></div><div><span>trials after they </span><span>have been in human use in Europe </span></div><div><span>and elsewhere - refusing to use that data. This is a </span></div><div><span>good reason to proceed </span><span>with external non-medical </span></div><div><span>"parallel man" additions </span><span>to human capacity while </span></div><div><span>the battle over reducing </span><span>the footprint of central </span></div><div><span>planners continues. </span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Dennis May</span><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;
font-size: 14pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Arial"><div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Dennis May <dennislmay@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, October 9, 2011 1:13 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [ExI] The Parallel Man<br></font><br>
<div id="yiv907604100"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div>I'm sure this has been discussed before but I would</div><div>like to hear what others have to say about the</div><div>idea of gradually adding more and more artificial</div><div>capacity to the human brain with the idea that</div><div>when the biological part fails the artificial takes</div><div>takes its place - along with new physical form.</div><div>The external capacity can learn to emulate the</div><div>biological in portions it does not have actual</div><div>access to.</div><div> </div><div>This would seem to be a closer to near term</div><div><span id="yiv907604100misspell-0"><span>possibility<var id="yiv907604100yui-ie-cursor"></var></span></span> than some other paths. I would</div><div>prefer the artificial capacity be largely outside</div><div>the human
body to allow ease of continual </div><div>upgrade. The brain
interface is the most important</div><div>aspect and may require implants versus external</div><div>readers/writers depending on the technology.</div><div>It would be nice if it could be all done externally</div><div>to keep it non-medical.</div><div> </div><div>I am more interested in developing full AI</div><div>myself but I would not be opposed to developing</div><div>and trying external reader/writer added capacity.</div><div> </div><div>Dennis May</div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" ymailto="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><br><br><br><var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var></div></div></div></body></html>