Memory implants and similar

Taizéan · 28th December 2008, 4:38pm

Apparantly it will only be five years before you can buy yourself a memory chip to put in your head. These chips will allow you to "remember" ten times as much information.

What do you guys think about that? Personally I don't care about its benefits. Chip and Neuron don't go together in my book.

~LEE~ · 28th December 2008, 4:40pm

chip and neuron were two pals fighting over a couple of meg when chip lost the rag and decided to overload neurons neural pathways right?

thats why the dont go together....

or am i just talking utter pish?

endless psych · 28th December 2008, 5:44pm

Only five years?

What or who is your source? Doctor Optimistic of the faculty of Optimism at the Univeristy of Glass half full?

Remember in the 1970's they said we would have intelligent human like robots within 5-10 years...

Taizéan · 28th December 2008, 6:08pm

My source was either James Maye and his Big Ideas series, or that Chinese guy from one of those recent BBC science documentaries.

It's true, just can't remember which program exactly.

DoNotResus · 28th December 2008, 6:09pm

Have they managed to quantify the amount of memory the human brain has in terms and units that a 10 times comparison can be made?

endless psych · 28th December 2008, 6:11pm

They do have estimates for the amount of human memory but they vary quite dramatically.

Goth_pixie · 28th December 2008, 6:14pm

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Originally Posted by Taizéan

My source was either James Maye and his Big Ideas series, or that Chinese guy from one of those recent BBC science documentaries.

It's true, just can't remember which program exactly.

What an excellent evidence base.

DoNotResus · 28th December 2008, 6:15pm

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Originally Posted by endless psych

They do have estimates for the amount of human memory but they vary quite dramatically.

what unit do they use to measure it?

For example, is there models that exist that can say that, say, the memory of my wife is XX megabytes, where as that of my last cup of coffee is YY Megabytes?

Or do they use a non-binary model?

*LesMTS* · 28th December 2008, 6:17pm

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Originally Posted by Taizéan

It's true, just can't remember which program exactly.

It's arrant nonsense, is what it is.
We don't even know how biological memory works at a physical level, and aren't likely to for some time yet. We're talking decades before such an implant even becomes plausible.

endless psych · 28th December 2008, 6:19pm

The estimates are based on "capacity" more then use if I recall correctly. Along the lines of a brain this size and with this number of neurones/grey matter/synapses/whatever can store x amount.

The reason the estimates vary so wildly is probably because either the estimates for the amount of synaptic connections a human brain has vary wildly or because the amount of memory (in megabytes) is essentially arbitarily defined in line with arbitary criteria.

hammertime · 28th December 2008, 7:25pm

What size of SD adapter will I need for this?

Largest of Als · 28th December 2008, 7:31pm

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Originally Posted by endless psych

Remember in the 1970's they said we would have intelligent human like robots within 5-10 years...

We're still struggling to find enough intelligent humans to go around... let alone robots.

Al

**djtoast** · 28th December 2008, 7:33pm

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Originally Posted by Taizéan

It's true, just can't remember which program exactly.

No wonder you're so desperate for this to become reality!

endless psych · 28th December 2008, 7:36pm

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Originally Posted by Largest of Als

We're still struggling to find enough intelligent humans to go around... let alone robots.

Yup.

Although they do have some pretty nifty robots kicking about at the minute.

DoNotResus · 28th December 2008, 7:37pm

"i'm sorry I forgot our anniversary, it was on my other memory card"

This could have some uses...