• Question: can you use nanotechnology to create a brain which can think the most intelligently?

    Asked by ash001 to Joanna on 23 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Joanna Brooks answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      Hello! Nanotechnology means controlling and manipulating groups of atoms and molecules – whether we can use this technology to create a brain with intelligence is a good question. Scientists have created ‘artificial intelligence’ using computer programs for example – they have created artificial neural networks that can recognise words! I’d like to think that in the future it will be possible to use nanotechnology in this way – that’s what science is all about ‘discovery’!

      BTW did you do the quiz to find out what sex your brain is?
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/add_user.shtml

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