• Question: Could you combine a human brain and a computer to make a super cyborg computer?

    Asked by picklez to Fiona, Jane, Joanna, Michelle, William on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      William Davies answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      In the future I’m sure that will happen. Some ongoing experiments using monkeys have implanted computer chips into their brains, so that the monkeys can move levers to deliver food to their mouths just by thinking about it which is pretty cool. Something like that might be useful for people who are paralysed for example

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      Michelle Murphy answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Usually a computer only works with a human brain to operate it.

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      Jane Henry answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      We are light years off anything like this, but we are on the baby slopes, certain deaf people are able to have implants in or near the brain that enable them to hear for example.

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      Joanna Brooks answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Hello, great question! Yes, in the future I believe that this will be possible. Scientists have already implanted computer chips into people’s body (inside the arm for example) to do things like turn lights on or off and even open doors! If this is possible now then in 100 years it will probably be possible for the brain too. So yes, I’d say so.

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      Fiona Randall answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      I don’t think so, but the more we understand about the brain, the more complex robots are getting… we can make robots perform tasks a human normally would by using our knowledge of the brain to design them.

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