A BRAIN WITHOUT THE BODY.
"By 2040 Humans will be able to replicate the Human brain not as an organ but as a device. By 2050 you will be able to buy one; for 1000$." I sat there as wide eyed as possible. I had goosebumps as I continued to hear what my teacher had to offer. "Just as you use your laptops, you will use the Human brain." I clasped my hands over my, ears my vain efforts didn't serve the purpose. At that moment I could only think of the consequences of creating the Human brain.
I have always wondered what really differentiates humans from other creatures. Everyday countless living beings die. Yet it is a big news when a few Humans do. Well we truly are selfish. But that is exactly where we differ. We can feel the pain of dying. We fear the pain of dying more than the process. Our feelings are not confined to our flesh but our emotions. We know the meaning of life and it's worth. As Humans we are near perfection of God's creation. Logic and emotions, we have both to lead our lives.
Humans do not live to survive.
Our Brain encapsulates our abilities and defines us. Everybody thinks differently. To imagine an artificial brain doing so is not a mere speculation. It is true and it can be done. Moore's law predicts the capacity of integrated circuits to grow exponentially. By observation it doubles approximately every 2 years. Futurist Ray Kurzweil believes that by the time we reach the ultimate of Moore's law, the computational capacity will rival that of Humans.
Replicating the Human Brain will only result in reproducing it's Logical and Analytical power Not Emotional. A device such as this is no less than a Psychopath's brain. All the logic in the world but no emotions. Ability purely based on what is to be done. Even if we try to feed such a device with emotions we wouldn't be able to. Because till date we don't know if emotional intelligence can be taught. If humans can't be taught how can we edify the device made by them.
Here I am trying to draw a clear line between the Human world and the Virtual world. Which is soon to be breached and that scares me. In the end if we are able to finally make such a device it would only be the beginning of something we wouldn't want to happen- Intelligence explosion. Replicating the brain is like inviting singularity into our world. Furthermore these devices will have the ability to connect with each other. Imagine a network of Human brains, It will be a world within itself. And it won't be long after this when these powerful machines will recreate themselves with such super intelligence that it would be impossible for Humans to comprehend (Scientists say this will start around 2045).
I don't think they will limit themselves to their existence. Either we will control the system or they will control us. Is there even a need to create a probable monster. wouldn't it make more sense to build the Human body rather than the Human brain.
After all it is our body that gives away. It is our body that is incompetent to serve the Human brain.
PS: If you guys have been intrigued by this subject I suggest you to look up 2 things:
1) Technological Singularity : It's a really cool theory. I have used it in my article.
Read up on it you will be astounded.
2) One of my favorite Animes : Psycho-pass. Amazing plot. My reaction to my teacher's words
will be justified. :p
"By 2040 Humans will be able to replicate the Human brain not as an organ but as a device. By 2050 you will be able to buy one; for 1000$." I sat there as wide eyed as possible. I had goosebumps as I continued to hear what my teacher had to offer. "Just as you use your laptops, you will use the Human brain." I clasped my hands over my, ears my vain efforts didn't serve the purpose. At that moment I could only think of the consequences of creating the Human brain.
I have always wondered what really differentiates humans from other creatures. Everyday countless living beings die. Yet it is a big news when a few Humans do. Well we truly are selfish. But that is exactly where we differ. We can feel the pain of dying. We fear the pain of dying more than the process. Our feelings are not confined to our flesh but our emotions. We know the meaning of life and it's worth. As Humans we are near perfection of God's creation. Logic and emotions, we have both to lead our lives.
Humans do not live to survive.
Our Brain encapsulates our abilities and defines us. Everybody thinks differently. To imagine an artificial brain doing so is not a mere speculation. It is true and it can be done. Moore's law predicts the capacity of integrated circuits to grow exponentially. By observation it doubles approximately every 2 years. Futurist Ray Kurzweil believes that by the time we reach the ultimate of Moore's law, the computational capacity will rival that of Humans.
Replicating the Human Brain will only result in reproducing it's Logical and Analytical power Not Emotional. A device such as this is no less than a Psychopath's brain. All the logic in the world but no emotions. Ability purely based on what is to be done. Even if we try to feed such a device with emotions we wouldn't be able to. Because till date we don't know if emotional intelligence can be taught. If humans can't be taught how can we edify the device made by them.
Here I am trying to draw a clear line between the Human world and the Virtual world. Which is soon to be breached and that scares me. In the end if we are able to finally make such a device it would only be the beginning of something we wouldn't want to happen- Intelligence explosion. Replicating the brain is like inviting singularity into our world. Furthermore these devices will have the ability to connect with each other. Imagine a network of Human brains, It will be a world within itself. And it won't be long after this when these powerful machines will recreate themselves with such super intelligence that it would be impossible for Humans to comprehend (Scientists say this will start around 2045).
I don't think they will limit themselves to their existence. Either we will control the system or they will control us. Is there even a need to create a probable monster. wouldn't it make more sense to build the Human body rather than the Human brain.
After all it is our body that gives away. It is our body that is incompetent to serve the Human brain.
PS: If you guys have been intrigued by this subject I suggest you to look up 2 things:
1) Technological Singularity : It's a really cool theory. I have used it in my article.
Read up on it you will be astounded.
2) One of my favorite Animes : Psycho-pass. Amazing plot. My reaction to my teacher's words
will be justified. :p
Technology will indeed reach its potential but what we feel and what we are capable of will be really difficult to recreate. If you haven't seen the movie "Real Steel", see it. Its about robots replacing humans in boxing and fighting. There's this champion bot who evolves in every fight by learning the opponent. But eventually the creator HAS to control it in the end because it starts to lose. I don't say its not possible but it would be a miracle. Great one though!! Awesome to read this.
ReplyDeleteThe way the artificial intelligence is evolving in today’s world seems somewhat similar to our own. The artificial intelligent robots will someday take our place and establish themselves as a dominant creature as we dominated the less intelligent species. It makes me think that making artificial intelligence more powerful is same as our own beginning. We were created by some other worldly creatures just the same way we are creating humanoids. The nerves in our body is like a kind of optical fibres that we use in the humanoids, the blood vessels act as the current carrying wires, the DNA structure resembles the IC’s that are used in robots. Sometimes I think that we were made like robots but we exceeded their capabilities or probably the world became inhabitable for those creatures so we exist. And that’s exactly what it seems to be our future, ether we will extinct due to the drastic change in climatic condition or the artificial intelligence will establish themselves as dominant creatures. Either way artificial intelligence will become the future of our world and probably they will be succeeded by some other form of technology. And all this takes me to the conclusion that those who created us are the ones we call GODS. They have capabilities far bigger than what we have the same way we have capabilities greater than the robots such as emotions.
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