Digitizing Human Memory: any Problems?
Posted by: adonis49 on: February 13, 2009
Digitizing Human Memory: any Problems? (February 11, 2009)
Do you know that a foundation in California called “Repository for Germinal Choice” had already generated over 200 babies by artificial insemination of “exceptional parents” in sciences, sports, and successful private entrepreneurial?
The mother recipient has to undergo test of intelligence and score high IQ. The billionaire Robert Graham had this lube of storing sperms of Nobel Laureates in order “to improve human intelligence by eugenics selection“.
The Nobel Laureates declined the temptation and the foundation went after second choices for successful and smart people in all fields.
Daniel Plotz published in 2005 “The Genius Factory: Unraveling the Mystery of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank“. Plotz managed to locate 15 out of the 200 “super intelligent” kids, but so far only one family agreed to come out publicly.
One of the new breed is Doron Blake with an IQ of 180 and born in 1982. This adolescent stated in a TV interview:
“Having a high IQ does not make me a good or a happy person. Being intelligent is not enough to define an individual. What kids need is not to be pressured by over motivated parents for solely education purposes. What I appreciate most in me is my capacity for loving others; I don’t think it is feasible to select genetically good and loving individual; nurturing is the key factor here.
On another front, it seems that researchers in cognition are attempting to transfer electrical impulses from human memory into digital signals.
This phase of the endeavor might be possible with the nanotechnology where microscopic elements are infused in the blood reaching specific sections of the brain.
The first problem would be what hard or soft storage technology would be appropriate to transfer that much information and at what speed.
The second difficulty is the hardest: Given that the headaches in the first stage are ironed out then how to interpret the stored data?
I have taken many courses in human memory and what I recall is that it is not reliable.
The critical problem would be the interpretation of the data.
I am inclined to believe that most of the research would not be geared to emulating human intelligence or its problem solving capability or how man transfer its information to the “dust bin” and then how he recovers the needed information to survive and go on living.
What the zealot researchers don’t know is how the data would “benefit” other objectives.
The providers of funds and decision makers surely have different agendas that researchers are not supposed to know at this stage.
One agenda is probably to transfer the memory of one person to another person or to a robot and test and evaluate and eliminate and improve and then scrap projects after sinking in billions of scarce resources.
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February 13, 2009 at 10:58 am
interesting read,
newman