Human thought is an algorithm running on the laws of physics. Sooner or later that algorithm will be understood, simulated and improved upon. Computers will be able to simulate the algorithm
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[1]currently there is no neuro protective agent that can save the brain cells from destruction due to lack of blood supply of more than 5 minutes ,under ordinary circumstances
another problem is of "contents" of the dead brain digital storage of massive amounts of information residue from the person's life including writings,photos etc and sesual perceptions during life time of the dead person needs a lot of computer space to down load with our present knowledge ;even if a technology to down load the dead man's brain storage details are discovered
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[2]Hypnotic recall reveals the source!
The best evidence we have that reincarnation exists consists of:
- Waking state (normal) memories of past lives. Many young children have memories of a previous existence, and make remarks to their parents that may seem preposterous. Yet, in documented cases, some children were able to identify their previous homes and recognize their former relatives and friends. Adults retain memories of past lives too. There are some cases where past life information would have been difficult to obtain, yet when researched, the information proved accurate.
- Documented cases exist of two or more people, strangers to each other, remembering the same past life event in great detail. People speaking or writing in foreign languages (even dead languages) while regressed to the appropriate time and place.
Is Past Life Recall Real?
Not all experiences recalled in a Past Life Exploration (PLE) have actually been lived out in a former lifetime. Whether or not past life hypnosis consistently uncover past life experiences is likely to remain open for debate.
Not all experiences recalled in a Past Life Exploration (PLE) have actually been lived out in a former lifetime. Whether or not past life hypnosis consistently uncover past life experiences is likely to remain open for debate.
[3]Retireve files from broken memory stick?
my memory stick no longer works...it isnt recognised when i put it in my computer. ive tried outting on other computers but i think the connection part is gone. is there any way of retrieving the files? a whole years work will be gone and wasted if i cant retrieve the files.?depends how it is broken, if there is a physical reason, broken connection inside, then it will be possible but if the ram chip inside has died then sorry you've lost it all.
[4]near death experiences:-
There have many relatively recent studies on consciousness. The current theory is that consciousness is where the memories are stored, not the brain. Many scientists have postulated that as an information storage unit the brain cannot possibly hold all the information. Therefore, the brain is more of an accessing unit much like a radio receiver. Additional findings have shown that the way we remember is not as a computer disk drive, but rather we store a core memory attached to an emotion and then file it in an concept area in the brain. When we retrieve our memories, we are programmed to "fill in the gaps." Therefore brain memories rarely are 100% totally accurate. However, that being said, the NDEs report 100% life reviews of every thought, deed, and how we made others feel. This is the computer hard drive - the consciousness that survives death. When consciousness returns to the body, it takes typically 7 years to have those intense memories of the NDE to funnel through the brain. My guess is that it is such an intense experience that it may create in the brain what is known as a "flashbulb moment." These are times that the brain takes a picture of a particular instance, usually occurring in times of heightened sensory and emotional input or life-threatening moments. These memories are ingrained in the brain and the person can recall like it happened yesterday.
[5]The mind-body problem:-
Understanding the relationship between the brain and the mind is a challenging problem both philosophically and scientifically. The most straightforward scientific evidence that there is a strong relationship between the physical brain matter and the mind is the impact physical alterations to the brain have on the mind, such as with traumatic brain injury and psychoactive drug use.
The mind-body problem is one of the central issues in the history of philosophy, which asks us to consider if the brain and the mind are identical, partially distinct, or related in some unknown way. There are three major schools of thought concerning the answer: dualism, materialism, and idealism. Dualism holds that the mind exists independently of the brain; materialism holds that mental phenomena are identical to neuronal phenomena; and idealism holds that only mental phenomena exist.
In addition to the philosophical questions, the relationship between mind and brain involves a high number of scientific questions, including understanding the relationship between mental activity and brain activity, the exact mechanisms by which drugs influence cognition, and the neural correlates of consciousness.
[6]Computational neuroscience encompasses two approaches: first, the use of computers to study the brain; second, the study of how brains perform computation.On one hand, it is possible to write a computer program to simulate the operation of a group of neurons by making use of systems of equations that describe their electrochemical activity; such simulations are known as biologically realistic neural networks. On the other hand, it is possible to study algorithms for neural computation by simulating, or mathematically analyzing, the operations of simplified "units" that have some of the properties of neurons but abstract out much of their biological complexity. The computational functions of the brain are studied both by neuroscientists and computer scientists.
CAN WE REVIVE THE BRAIN/THE MEMORY IN FUTURE?!AFTER DEATH
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These are the headlines for March the 22nd, 2012.
While it’s generally accepted that memories are stored somewhere, somehow in our brains, the exact process has never been entirely understood. Strengthened synaptic connections between neurons definitely have something to do with it, although the synaptic membranes involved are constantly degrading and being replaced – this seems to be somewhat at odds with the fact that some memories can last for a person’s lifetime. Now, a team of scientists believe that they may have figured out what’s going on. Their findings could have huge implications for the treatment of diseases such as Alzheimer's.
Digital storage: Shakespeare’s sonnets encoded in DNA
READ MORE Shakespeare|EMBL|DNA
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LONDON:
A genetic storage device has been used to 'download' all 154 of
Shakespeare's sonnets on to strands of synthetic DNA, in a breakthrough
which could solve the problem of storing the ever-growing mountain of
data.
Scientists were able to decode the information and reproduce the words of the Bard with complete accuracy.
The new method by researchers at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI ), published in the journal Nature, makes it possible to store at least 100 million hours of high-definition video in about a cup of DNA.
The technique made it possible to store a 26 second excerpt from Martin Luther King's 'I Have A Dream' speech and a photo of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory where the work took place.
Researchers were also able to turn a copy of Watson and Crick's paper describing the nature ofDNA into genetic code.
There is a lot of digital information in the world — about three zettabytes' worth (3000 billion billion bytes) — and the constant influx of new digital content poses a real challenge for archivists. Hard disks are expensive and require a constant supply of electricity, while even the best "no-power" archiving materials such as magnetic tape degrade within a decade.
This is a growing problem in the life sciences, where massive volumes of data — including DNA sequences — make up the fabric of the scientific record.
"We already know that DNA is a robust way to store information because we can extract it from bones of woolly mammoths , which date back tens of thousands of years, and make sense of it," said Nick Goldman of EMBL-EBI . "It's also incredibly small, dense and does not need any power for storage, so shipping and keeping it is easy," Goldman said in a statement.
Reading DNA is fairly straightforward, but writing it has until now been a major hurdle to making DNA storage a reality . The new method required synthesising DNA from the encoded information which was done by a California-based company.
Scientists were able to decode the information and reproduce the words of the Bard with complete accuracy.
The new method by researchers at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI ), published in the journal Nature, makes it possible to store at least 100 million hours of high-definition video in about a cup of DNA.
The technique made it possible to store a 26 second excerpt from Martin Luther King's 'I Have A Dream' speech and a photo of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory where the work took place.
Researchers were also able to turn a copy of Watson and Crick's paper describing the nature ofDNA into genetic code.
There is a lot of digital information in the world — about three zettabytes' worth (3000 billion billion bytes) — and the constant influx of new digital content poses a real challenge for archivists. Hard disks are expensive and require a constant supply of electricity, while even the best "no-power" archiving materials such as magnetic tape degrade within a decade.
This is a growing problem in the life sciences, where massive volumes of data — including DNA sequences — make up the fabric of the scientific record.
"We already know that DNA is a robust way to store information because we can extract it from bones of woolly mammoths , which date back tens of thousands of years, and make sense of it," said Nick Goldman of EMBL-EBI . "It's also incredibly small, dense and does not need any power for storage, so shipping and keeping it is easy," Goldman said in a statement.
Reading DNA is fairly straightforward, but writing it has until now been a major hurdle to making DNA storage a reality . The new method required synthesising DNA from the encoded information which was done by a California-based company.
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ARRIVAL OF ARTIFICIAL SUPER MEMORY
can this method be used to extract lost memories from a medico legal dead person ?
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can this method be used to extract lost memories from a medico legal dead person ?
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New US brain wave: Unlocking the mind
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WASHINGTON:
The Obama administration is planning a decade-long scientific effort to
examine the workings of the human brain and build a comprehensive map
of its activity, seeking to do for the brain what the Human Genome Project did for genetics.
The project, which the administration has been looking to unveil as early as March, will include federal agencies, private foundations and teams of neuroscientists and nanoscientists in a concerted effort to advance the knowledge of the brain's billions of neurons and gain greater insights into perception, actions and, ultimately, consciousness . Scientists with the highest hopes for the project also see it as a way to develop the technology essential to understanding diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's , as well as to find new therapies for a variety of mental illnesses. Moreover, the project holds the potential of paving the way for advances in artificial intelligence.
The project, which could ultimately cost billions of dollars, is expected to be part of the president's budget proposal next month. And, four scientists and representatives of research institutions said they had participated in planning for what is being called the Brain Activity Map project. The details are not final, and it is not clear how much federal money would be proposed or approved for the project in a time of fiscal constraint or how far the research would be able to get without federal financing. In his state of the union address, Obama cited brain research as an example of how the government should "invest in the best ideas" .
"Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy — every dollar," he said. "Today our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer's . They're developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs , devising new materials to make batteries 10 times more powerful. Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation."
The initiative, if successful, could provide a lift for the economy . "The Human Genome Project was on the order of about $300 million a year for a decade," said George M Church, a Harvard University molecular biologist who helped create that project . "If you look at the total spending in neuroscience and nanoscience that might be relative to this today, we are already spending more than that. We probably won't spend less money, but we will probably get a lot more bang for the buck." Scientists said they hoped that federal financing would be more than $300 million a year.
The project, which the administration has been looking to unveil as early as March, will include federal agencies, private foundations and teams of neuroscientists and nanoscientists in a concerted effort to advance the knowledge of the brain's billions of neurons and gain greater insights into perception, actions and, ultimately, consciousness . Scientists with the highest hopes for the project also see it as a way to develop the technology essential to understanding diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's , as well as to find new therapies for a variety of mental illnesses. Moreover, the project holds the potential of paving the way for advances in artificial intelligence.
The project, which could ultimately cost billions of dollars, is expected to be part of the president's budget proposal next month. And, four scientists and representatives of research institutions said they had participated in planning for what is being called the Brain Activity Map project. The details are not final, and it is not clear how much federal money would be proposed or approved for the project in a time of fiscal constraint or how far the research would be able to get without federal financing. In his state of the union address, Obama cited brain research as an example of how the government should "invest in the best ideas" .
"Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy — every dollar," he said. "Today our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer's . They're developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs , devising new materials to make batteries 10 times more powerful. Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation."
The initiative, if successful, could provide a lift for the economy . "The Human Genome Project was on the order of about $300 million a year for a decade," said George M Church, a Harvard University molecular biologist who helped create that project . "If you look at the total spending in neuroscience and nanoscience that might be relative to this today, we are already spending more than that. We probably won't spend less money, but we will probably get a lot more bang for the buck." Scientists said they hoped that federal financing would be more than $300 million a year.
