Back up your brain?

swirly

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Ok so recently I was srufing through the articles on Digg and came across one that cought my eye. The article was about Microsoft wanting to back up your brain. (See original article here- http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/10/16/explorers.memory/index.html) What do you think about this? Having all your memories saved on your computer so that you can go back and look at them. Your most memoeable moments and the not so memorable. I have thought about my brain being like a computer before but this really puts it into perspective.
 

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I don't really like the sound of that idea. It seems kind of invasive, beacuse if they were saved to a computer, then anyone could really access them, such as a hacker, and they could have direct access to your private life!

Then again it does have its advantages, such as if someone was in a crash, and lost their memory, if their was a backup then they could get all their memories back.

So either way it has advantages and disadvantages
 

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Hah what a bad idea. Sounds cool, but people could invade peoples' privacy quite easily.. and since Bill Gates is spearheading this project, people WILL have their privacy invaded.. theres going to be a loophole somewhere..
 

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Well it has many ptos and cons:

Pros:
You have altimers, well that would probably be the cure, right there.
FOrgot something

COns:
Identity theft
GOvernments implanting memories.

A cool idea would be in this Schwarzenager movie I saw, wehere hes a guy who wnats to go mars, and he gets the memory implanted that he did.
 

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Total Recall was that movie, I own it. Good movie, but you might wanna look at The Sixth Day (TSD for short) too - Total Recall was mostly how to implant memories, not back them up.

TSD on the other hand used a fake process called Syncording, reading all the information from your brain via the optic nerve, to store the stuff in your head. The trick was that you could read the data for up to 12 hours after a person has died, provided the brain is intact (as in not blown to bits or anything super-gorey lik that).

That basically allowed anyone who had been killed without taking head trauma to be resurrected in just short of 2 hours. Defeats the death penalty, that's for sure...


I'm all for it if it's actually done properly though. As in medical use only. I don't want to be able to log onto someone's pc and watch all their memories in windows media player 11, but I can definetly see how it could help an alzheimers patient (although, a TSD approach would be better - clone the brain after altering the dna so alzheimers wasn't present, then use the syncording to give them their memories back. Expensive, but it'd work.).

Edit: And I just realized how nerdy it is of me that I managed to pull Total Recall and The Sixth Day out of my backside. Aparently I don't need this memory thing if I can remember those (they both kinda flew under the radar as far as 'Arnie Movies' go).
 
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If the backup were encrypted with 256-bit AES, sure. I'm slightly paranoid, so I would refuse to back up my brain unless I stored the encrypted backup and the passphrase in two separate safes locked by either my biometrics or the ones of someone whom I trust.

And, it would be great for Alzheimer's disease.
 
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Cubeform said:
If the backup were encrypted with 256-bit AES, sure. I'm slightly paranoid, so I would refuse to back up my brain unless I stored the encrypted backup and the passphrase in two separate safes locked by either my biometrics or the ones of someone whom I trust.

And, it would be great for Alzheimer's disease.

Yeah, I probably would be to, paranoid that is. Butmalso some memories I dont want my parents seeing, if you catch my drift ;):naughty:
 

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hmm..i coulda sworn there was already a topic on this, maybe not though lol maybe it was at a different forum :dunno:
 

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ew.... will we controlled by computer in the later day? Omg... human's worst dream start from now on.
 

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we are trying to forget the past... and start with a shine future.. why would we like to remember the past? what an idea?
 

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it is just another way for microsoft to invade your privacy! I am totally against it, and will not back my brain up!
 

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Hmm this is sorta Controversial.
You and Cant market this idea, ill try to explain.
You can back your brain but how would you go about doing it? Could i have effects or long term effects? Would it be Encryted information? would be it be only accessable by you? would it be publicly Available ? on the internet?
Well we dont have the techbology yet to Backup Bioorganic Memory, such as the brain.
And if it did would you trust technology to not screw up your current memories and functions that operate you brain? to me thats just too much of a risk, with today tech im not going to try this anytime soon.The effects could be unimaginable, this is like a CPU witch could be Dead if incorrectly used, your brain is the same except its not designed to be Interchanged and Socketed to anything, its like Hardware Independant, it runs on what it wants. As with storing the data, the human brain would be massive on the GB size, personally i think the brain can hold x1000 Storage than any storage device today, its hard to explain, but if you could store absoultely eveything that you know do , its functions and everything else that brain does, you would have one big backup to do, plus would probably need 100TB to get the basic memories, because most people remeber things like videos but except that your in them filming everything. The Data to store 20 Years of data or raw video? that would be monstrous!. Do we have the current processing power of todays tech to encrypt this information from everybody? i dont think so, the brain is very complex anyway.Would you like other to see what you have done in your life? Technically i would take half of ones life to see & watch another life, who would watch and waste 40Years of their life watching someone elses life? I guess it would be up to the person to make it avaliable to the public, personallly i would rather not, people can be mean and too Curious about anothers things, such as bad memories or exploits they can find, plus mentioning this to the person from what they viewed from themselves can have a very negative affect on the original person.. Bad idea, unless your mean by nature. And lastly would you let the whole world view you life? like it was for sale or publicly avaliable to exploit? I find this idea the worst of them all, especially for the internet. well ths is my opinion, bu tim interested in what others have to say.
 

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I don't really catch up about the topic! But I get somethin'

How could it be? Does it really happen!
 
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