From: | ValeuJ@*************.navy.mil (Valeu John EMFA) |
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Subject: | [OT] Brains (trying to bring it back around) |
Date: | Thu, 8 May 2003 03:22:49 -0800 |
>>>"Warning: remote host is attempting to send a KILL signal to
>>>/proc/brain. Do you want to continue (y/n)?"
>>
>>
>> Shouldn't that be /dev/brain0? That'd make it easy to umount it when you
>> don't need it for a while... Or, of course, for some people to do a mount
>> /dev/brain0 /ass -o noexec ;)
>then you have a whole new meaning to being fscked in the brain
>The brain does have multiple functions though, short term memory, RAM,
>and longer term lesser accessed archival functions that can take a while
>to access.
>Interesting question. And really, *could* you store data in the unused
>portion of the brain?
My friends and I actually did a search on this back in High school when
Johnny Mnemonic came out. I think the answer is that there really is no
"unused" part of the brain, just parts we don't normally access. It all
serves a function, weither for motor control (which seems to be havng some
probelms at the moments), memory (both sohrt and logn), background
operations (breathing, blinking, heartbeats), and so on...
Oh sure there are lobomeys, but look at how they're fragged up. Now that I
think about it, as much as I'd like a jack, I'd probably wait until the
tech's perfected.
The human body is a finely honed (bio-)machine. Mess with a part of it and
you're going to throw it out of whack. Though I'd still get a new set of
eyes. I think anything having to do with the central nervous system would
be risky. And you'd have to go through a lot of pratice...tests...
something like that, to get it right. And since we don't have computers
that can simulate a brain and what will happen if we poke this part or that
part (cool, I made his leg jump...), humans are needed.
Ok I think I've said enough.