Maybe we could get the manufactured circuits to download our consiousness, so our minds will never die.
200789
i have no dought that this will one day happen...people have found on freak events, a brain cell that reacts to a picture in lab animals...i would imagation after a while they will have much better brain mapping to a cellear level...then from there they could figure out how to make a computer to read the information...but i think that is as far as it will go...i do not think that the computer will think for us or anything like that...i think it would be read only in a sense
579957
i believe it is possible. we use less than 10 % of our brain. it is believed that if we could use more then we could fly, move things with our minds, and read peoples thoughts.
503347
No, but we are able to extend life through science.
216002
I believe it will take a similar course as electronics and computer technology over the past century, with some of the same benefits as well as consequences.\n\nFirst, don't expect miracles.  Remember people were expecting robots to do and know virtually everything by 2000.  We have progressed a long way, but that was just unrealistic.  I predict nanotechnology within the next 20 years will be comparable to electronics before the discovery of the transistor.\n\nWithin 50 years, I predict something similar to the dot.com boom/bomb.  There will be some very amazing advancements which will spur investment into all kinds of faulty business models.  In the end, a lot of people will lose money but things will settle out at a higher economic level.\n\nAnd as nanotech gets into the hands of common folks, "hackers" will emerge.  I could only make wild guesses on what kind of hacking that would be, but it will be there.  I guarantee that.  Perhaps we will all need to install genetic firewalls to prevent hackers from hijacking our brains! :)
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No I don't think so. Our brains work by electro-chemical interactions.\n\nWe'd be much smarter I think if our brains worked like a quantum computer. Or, we could not make any decisions at all as all of our decisions will be in a quantum flux, and dictated only by the laws of probability. So we'd be making random decisions!!
604880
Theoretically Yes.\nBut then everything doesn't go in order according to numbers in life.\nIf it did however, then we wouldn't have enough processing power to predict it (if there was such a computer big enough it would in turn need a bigger computer to predict its actions and so on ad infinitum).\nSo practically No.
467071
Approve stem cell research. This will be the next great technology. If we conceed this to off-shore interests, the game is over.
479636
Research suggests that within the next century not only will we completely understand the human brain but computer processing power will far exceed it. Therefore we should not only be able to replicate the brain but should be able to create a far superior machine or human version 2. Depending on how we as humans merge with this new technology will determine whether we are part of this superior race or seen in the future as a lesser being. Either way endless and exciting possibilities are around the corner I don't think we will be waiting 1000's or even 100's of years.
494924
That would be great if it could be proven.  Great, that is, if eternal consciousness means an improvement over life in the physical body.
32100
Advantages of electronic buisness would be a good one.
420277
Being self satisfied, there won't be any urge in life ultimately become extinct.Quite possible that this has already happened before.
251447
It hasn't been done yet (we just don't have the technology to do it) but it is not against the laws of physics in anyway so it'll happen at some point in time.
85545
No, Actually I think that reproducing, concious and self-aware machines will be more ultimate.\n\nTwo parts:\n\nOne . . . \nIntelligence, is measurable as problem solving ability. Perhaps ultimately as the ability to solve new problems. Important, but I think that there are more interesting thing in store for us in the future.\n\nFor example, machines would be able to reproduce, and to adapt as a group through the processes of mutation (mistakes in reproduction) and natural selection. If they are concious and self aware, then their behaviors would be quite difficult to predict in different environments.\n\nTwo . . . \nPerhaps then we will have created something that can qualify as alive. Whether a supreme deity (I will use god in the generic sense rather than God in the specific sense, because I think this debate is applicable to many different interpretations of god.)\n\nDoes god take responsibility for man's creations? Though god may take responsibility for creating a world with disease, suffering, etc, Does god take responsibility for murder, war, genocide etc.? If god takes credit for man's creations then yes, god is ultimately responsible for these things by giving man the choice and ability to make these thing happen . . . and god would be responsible and credited for intelligent of living machines that were made by the hands of man.\n\nHowever, if god is not responsible for murder, war, genocide etc. then god would also not be responsible for man making an intelligent machine.\n\nA god can't have it both ways . . . either he's responsible for all of humanity's actions and creations or none of them.
463900
how can u say were behind when we have nothing to compare us too, soon computers will double in memory every minute until everything is moving so fast that humans will die because they cant keep up
208290
You're referring to mind over matter and/or biofeedback. Anything is possible when it comes to the mind and body. Even science doesn't know our true potential yet. The smartest of humans only ever use approximately 30% of their total brain power. There is so much untapped power in our minds that it will never be assessed in out lifetime.
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I don't think we can make it that far, but we are beginning to use computer chips in humans now.  Stroke victims have had brain implants that allow them to move and click a cursor on a computer screen to type for communication just by thought,  and people that have lost limbs have had the same kind of thing done so that they can move artificial limbs by thinking about it.
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brains, with technology advancement today, u can b beautiful .