whats the study of syncing the brain to a computer called?

[sexualjesus]

i dont know whether anyone has thought about it, or the study as common as it should be, but it seems the logical decision with memory enchancements would be using digital storage, im sure someplace somewhere is studying it.

think about it, all the information we ever learn is stored in our tiny memory banks, even having a smaller memory bank thats able to permantly save what ever you learn is a bonus, having some sort of processor as well as a microsd card even if its bulky would mean we would be able to learn infinitly, being able to sync to a computer to save an entire 5 years of university studies onto your memory banks in 5 minutes would make us almost perfect, we could save data on there to force our brains into building itself to be faster, or be able to numb pain by deleting the memory of what pain feels like, or more usefully, for now, be able to delete crippling phobia's or PTSD memories.

wikipedia even says these days there building systems to reboot the brain after a stroke or being shut down by shock, im sure some way or another this technology could be used to make our memories more permenant.

[Vizier]

Biotechnology?

Computer Bioengineering?

Neurocomputation?

It's probably a matter of a few decades before we can sync the human brain and a computer interface. It brings out a lot of paradoxes and ethical or moral dilemmas, though.

Cyberneurology? Lol, dunno the true name.

[harry_hardcore_hoedown]

Migration to electronics? Pseudoscience?

[sexualjesus]

Originally Posted by harry_hardcore_hoedown

Migration to electronics? Pseudoscience?

too many people claim psuedoscience for everything

"A brain-computer interface, or BCI, provides a direct path of communication from the brain to an external device, effectively creating a cyborg. Research of Invasive BCIs, which utilize electrodes implanted directly into the grey matter of the brain, has focused on restoring damaged eye sight in the blind and providing functionality to paralysed people, most notably those with severe cases, such as Locked-In syndrome."

the one i looked at before went in depth for pacemakers for the brain that get people out of strokes/cryogenics and mentioned that a BCI would be able to do the same thing, really im just concentrateing on memory enhancements and since BCI's are real there must be a class for the study of memory and cybernetics togethor

[nutsack]

Computational Neuroscience? I guess creating a brain-computer interface draws on a few different fields

[harry_hardcore_hoedown]

Originally Posted by sexualjesus

too many people claim psuedoscience for everything

"A brain-computer interface, or BCI, provides a direct path of communication from the brain to an external device, effectively creating a cyborg. Research of Invasive BCIs, which utilize electrodes implanted directly into the grey matter of the brain, has focused on restoring damaged eye sight in the blind and providing functionality to paralysed people, most notably those with severe cases, such as Locked-In syndrome."

the one i looked at before went in depth for pacemakers for the brain that get people out of strokes/cryogenics and mentioned that a BCI would be able to do the same thing, really im just concentrateing on memory enhancements and since BCI's are real there must be a class for the study of memory and cybernetics togethor

Yeah but there's a big difference between jacking a camera into the brain of a blind person and a device that saves memories to a MicroSD card. And just getting to the point of prototyping something like that is going to be pretty much legally impossible, since you're talking about implants into a brain that aren't for the sake of restoring function, but just a modification to an otherwise healthy brain. And if that became widely available, who would want to undergo brain surgery so that they can download their memories to a computer? I don't think it's impossible to do, but I certainly don't think it's happening in our lifetime, and I hope something like what you described in the OP never becomes commercially available for people who just want to improve their memory.

[sexualjesus]

Originally Posted by harry_hardcore_hoedown

Yeah but there's a big difference between jacking a camera into the brain of a blind person and a device that saves memories to a MicroSD card. And just getting to the point of prototyping something like that is going to be pretty much legally impossible, since you're talking about implants into a brain that aren't for the sake of restoring function, but just a modification to an otherwise healthy brain. And if that became widely available, who would want to undergo brain surgery so that they can download their memories to a computer? I don't think it's impossible to do, but I certainly don't think it's happening in our lifetime, and I hope something like what you described in the OP never becomes commercially available for people who just want to improve their memory.

ethics shouldnt be the sole reason to throw away a good science, although saying it shouldnt be available because people know everything in the world shouldnt be possible, the benifits it will have for actually disabled people as ive mentioned will surely make all those moral tree hugging christians shut the hell up and let there kid with adhd get fixed.

although WELL out of our technology right now, mostly because we wont have a way to read what the brain is seeing, nor convert it digitally, BUT, it would, possibly be within our grasp, to copy someone elses memories, with a test subject, to see which memories stop the brain from functioning (crashing the computer with bad software) and wipe them so the data they want to remember (lets say a governments healthcare system fails, and doctors are in need, that 8 years worth of university for example) will be able to be read, or within time some of it able to be read (i would assume the brain would need to strengthen the network, so it wont be perfect, but functional at least as a minimum)

i know im asking too much here, because there isnt many posters in maths and science let alone specalists or people who would have researched this sort of stuff, BUT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory_training
as a sidenote, has anyone heard of this, cogmem training, games that apperently fix kids with adhd, id prefer not to worry about this stuff to derail the thread, but if you have any info it would be greatly appreciated

[Cegstar]

Psychotronics? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepat...bled_telepathy

[sexualjesus]

Originally Posted by Cegstar

Psychotronics? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepat...bled_telepathy

although they say the cybernetic equivelent of tech enabled telepathy is BCI, its not very related. also the idea doesnt seem very simple, needing other people to be connected to a bci as well as yourself to be able to communicate.

although i have read about government conspiracy's to monitor our brains through frequency's, but thats hardly factual or related.

memory folks, with a big memory the world is endless

[Mr. Muffin]

its called: the learning
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[a334jv2df]

computational biology?