electrical impulses into a computer which can translate the signals into actual movements on the computer screen. This simple approach, which relies on a literally wiring up our brains to a computer, may mean that in the future we can manually mend broken minds.
Brain on a chip?
You mightn’t want to compete with Google when it comes to searching for forgotten facts. Yet, despite the massive advances in computational power in the past twenty years, computer processors are still many steps behind even the worst of our brains. Neurons can make thousands of connections, regenerate themselves and can learn. These highly desirable characteristics have yet to be found in computer processors, but researchers are trying to generate computer chips to harness the curious abilities of neurons. Biomodal chips are silicon chips, with neurons grown into them. By zapping the neurons with different levels of electrical impulses its possible to train the neurons to react to the impulses, and then with the use of a mini- transistor the electrical information can be translated back again. This way you can read and talk to the neuron, creating an interface between machine and mind.
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