several chip transplants have been conducted,how's the chip connected to the human system?how,s it connected to the nervous system?
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I've only heard of this once before with a friend of mine that is deaf, has carpal's tunnel and a million other medical problems.  I believe the chip just simply sends out electrical pulses, mimicing the brain-transfer part of your nervous system.
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our brain is indeed greater than the computer and yet we cannot remember all the things a computer does, and that is because we are humans but bear in mind that humans are the ones invented the computer and it also takes humans to operate the computer... without the human's brain.. who invented electricity, how will the computer function... furthermore... there are times when a computer overload and can no longer function but human brains can take a whole lifetime of learnings... so tell me, do you think the computer is greater than our own brains... i am grateful God gave me a brain to operate my computer and now i am here to answer your question... cheers
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Great question that has been raised in many a bio-psych class.  Our brain is much more adaptable and maleable than a computer. I would love to be able to "delete" some of my memories and would definately love to organize my thoughts into "file folders" but our brain does not do that.  We are unable to control/alt/delete either.  \n\nThe human brain is amazing and I don't believe we know everything that it is capable of.  \n\nGood luck on this fun question and discussion!
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Microchimerism\n\nIn Greek mythology, a chimera is a fire-breathing monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent. In biology, a chimera is an organism consisting of tissues whose cells derive from two or more genetic sources. An apple tree, for example, can include grafts that enable it to produce a variety of apple types. In humans, such genetic mosaics reflect specific, intimate circumstances. The phenomenon is termed microchimerism because a one-cell population is typically much smaller than the other.\n\nAn organ transplant is an unnatural procedure that suddenly deposits many cells from one individual into another whose own organ has failed. It is similar to grafting in plants, and in fact, if the donor tissue reacts against the recipient's body, the condition is termed "graft-versus-host disease" (GVHD). When a transplant works, a peaceful co-existence evolves as recipient cells infiltrate graft tissue, and perhaps also as the transplanted cells alter their gene expression to modify their cell surfaces so that they are less likely to provoke the recipient's immune system. Microchimerism in transplant medicine does not refer to the transplanted material, but to small numbers of donor cells found outside the region of the transplant. For example, following transplantation of a liver, lymphoid and dendritic cells of the immune system often turn up outside of the liver, but with cell surfaces that match those of the donor, not the recipient.
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you could draw comparisons, but each bit in computer works by either sending a voltage down a conductor or not. It is either on or off. Each bit sends its pulses to a register where the queue up for the processor. A 64 bit processor can process 64 bit every two or 4 clock cycles (depending on how the register works). So a 1 GHz computer can process 64 bits half a million times a second.\n\nEach neuron in the brain has many conductors coming out of it. So it can send pulses down one, two, three or many conductors to other neurons, which in turn do the same. Pretend one neuron has 8 pathways coming out, that gives 8x7x6x5x4x3x2x1 switching combinations for one cell, Thats about 40 000 combinations from one cell. Some neurons have more than this some have less. Either way it is a big difference to on or off. Factor all this by the number of nuerons in a brain and you have one complex system. Eg 2 cells gives 40000 x 40000 combinations. 3 cells give 40000x40000x40000 combinations 40 000 to the power of a few million give a massive number of switching combinations.\n\nThe other difference is that the neurons wire themselves up based on your experiences. \n\nOne similiarity is levels of memory. Fine motor control is kept in permanent up front memory. people names are kept somewhere to be triggered by facial recognition and take a while to drag out of memory.\n\nA computer keeps the commonly used stuff in L1 and L2 cache, then main memory, then hard drive.
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that dude almost got it good but the chipset isnt the cpu. also it isnt only on motherboards.\n\nThe chipset is where firmware and data are. a videocard for example also has a chipset. the chipset is a small memmory block on your motherboard (can also exist out more)\n\nthe motherboard is the big green plate in your computer, its main function is just transport of data form divice to divice. like the chipset or the CPU\n\na cpu btw is most times the biggest chip on your motherboard. it always has a fan on it to keep it cool. The CPU is "the brain" of your computer. technically it only calculates, the hardware and software make it look like it really thinks about stuff......\n\ni could go a lot deeper on this subject but that to troublesome.
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The human machine has three major sources of input energy: carbohydrates (bread, grains and simples sugars such as those in milk and fruit), protein (meat, legumes) and fats (too many kinds to name). When the body consumes one of these energy sources, the food molecules are broken down into smaller pieces using enzymes--doing so releases the stored energy in the food and provides small pieces from which to build more complex molecules. \n\nEach food source has a specific role to play in metabolism. Carbohydrates are the dietary source of an important sugar called glucose. In fact, carbohydrates, such as the starch in potatoes, are simply very long chains of connected glucose molecules. Glucose is so important because it is the only source of fuel for the brain, red blood cells and several other tissues. Your brain uses about 120 grams of glucose per day. Any carbohydrate consumed in excess of what is needed for running the body's basic metabolic processes is converted to glycogen or fat for long term storage.
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The  EEG machine has wires that must be attached to scalp to detect the activities of different parts of the brain .for example scientist used that to record  the brain activity of people who were going through REM sleep.after the brain activities are sent to the EEG machine ,it draw a diagram which shows the activity of the brain.                .
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Your dog is way more intelligent than your computer. even if you look at only the bare computing power.\nA brain cell can work at a huge speed were as even a large computer can only work relitivly slow.\nHowever computers can get faster the more you link, just like brain cells.\nBrain cells have sveral states of being, a computer (cell) has two on and off or 1 and 0 as in binery using things we call logic gates. we can programme a computer to have a third state and this is the basis of fuzy logic, this is as close as we can come to how the brain works.\n\nwe use fuzy logic every day, thats why we are able to say Yes (1 or on) No (0 or off) and maby (fuzy)\neven a small insect can do that. \n\nhowever a dog is a lot smarter because it has a lot more small computers (brain cells) able to communicate a lot faster as its brain, if we tryed to build a network of computers able to make even 10% of that it would slow down as we reached the limit the amout of computers you can fit on a network. we could maby make 10000 computers but our dog has 10000000000 brain cells.\n\nThen you have the problem of memory retrival systems, power delivery ect. a computer is a very very very dumb beast.\nMind you it can spell so in one respect its better than me :)
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The brain is a highly parallel electrochemical computing and storage device.  Because of this, it can be (and is) quite "slow" compared with a linear device and not well suited for exact sequential calculations of any significant complexity, but it is extremely well-suited for large-scale pattern storage and recognition.  The massive parallelism also makes for a very fault-tolerant device, which is required for an organic construction where individual storage nodes can (and do) become inoperable over time, and the storage within individual nodes is not guaranteed to be permanent due to its electrochemical nature.\n\nMany computer scientists and engineers have been attempting to simulate the massive parallel computational ability of an organic brain for some time now.  Some topics for further research:  neuroscience, neural networks, parallel distributed computing, cognitive science, organic microcircuitry, and artificial intelligence.
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There are processes of regeneration going on, but getting cells to specifically differentiate to take on those roles is still in its infancy. It also depends on how the brain was damaged and what parts were damaged. Stem cells are omnipotent which means that they can differentiate into any kind of cell, but a culture is very hard to maintain and the success rate of transplant is still very low.
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Electrical wiring in the brain. We are wired to protect you. To love you. To care about you. Getting attached, and feeling things for you comes with the wiring. Sorry if it pisses you off.
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Scientists are leagues away from using stem cells to produce organs.  Below are a few sites that will help you understand where the field is now, and how far we have yet to go:\n\nhttp://www.bioteach.ubc.ca/Bioengineering/StemCells/\nhttp://www.stemcellresearchfoundation.org/About/FAQ.htm
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"Cybernetics is the study of communication and control," "in living beings and machines, and in combinations of the two"\n\nSometimes cybernetics is used as the study of integrating organic tissue and computers (ei. the human brain and a computer)
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not every question/answer on this sight is stupid. \n   we can sometimes be informed.   \ni do think the 'chip' will be associated with, if not actually be the mark of the beast. every thing that you purchase has a barcode on it. that is RFID (radio frequency ID). a lot of companies are installing RFID scanners for all merchandise that enters the store. i worked for one of nestle waters bottling plant and wal mart has started trying to have them put RFID barcodes on products. so far it's too expensive, but the plan is in the works. owners are putting chips into their pets in case they get lost they can be returned. there are bars that offer a kind of chip to it's patrons so they can be admitted. some people are having themselves implanted. i can't understand the reasoning there... as it is now, you don't - yet - have to have an implanted chip. who do you know doesn't have a cell phone? a computer in their car (for diagnostic purposes, only, of course...)? and so on. it's all GPS (global position satelite). got cash in your pocket? wallet?purse? that thin metal strip in there (i like taking them out...just one of my little contributions to civil disobedience)? that strip can be tracked. labels on some clothes now have tracking in them. hanes? how about that nifty discount card the grocery store, or where ever, gave you so you could save when you use it? tracking the purchases of a geo-area? yeah, that, too.  oh! lets not neglect to mention that metallic strip on the back of your driver's license! at least here in Texas. it contains all the info on you that is in the main computer: financial, credit, military, legal, etc. it's in there. can anybody say: HAL? or even know what HAL is? it won't be too much longer, time being relative, that money will not be obsolete. there will be your 'account' (think direct deposit) and if you don't have the proper card (or implant?) you cannot buy, get medical care, anything. \nhey, i don't make this stuff up. it's real. you can look it up. one place you might try is infowars.com.
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It is daunting.  I have heard that they are planing on using a small chip the size of a rice grain to hold all your medical information and insert it under the skin.  Should you go to a doctor, he would be able to access all you medical records by scaning this chip.  My opinion does not matter because if the government wants to do this, I don't think there is much we can do about it.  I will worry about it when the oppertunity is present and real.
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Therapeutic cloning is another term applied somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) in which the nucleus of an ovum is removed and replaced with the nucleus of an adult somatic cell donor, then allowed  to grow and mature as the genetic clone of the donor.  The idea behind is that if the donor should ever need an organ transplant, the organs can be harvested from the clone so that the donor will survive. The controversy is that we'd essentially be creating human life for the sole purpose of killing it in lieu of a medical emergency. Also, the first step of SCNT is the same as embryonic stem cell research and has drawn the opposition of those that oppose ESC research.