Brain chip reads man's thoughts

[Seven of Nine]

I know a girl (well, a teenager) with cerebal palsy. She is confined to a wheelchair, because she has very little control over her four limbs (she can move them, but not normally where she wants them to be).

If they created a computer chip that would allow her to control her own limbs, I would like her to have it (I don't know if she would want it though... I might ask her when I next see her... might even get her to post here if she wants to).

So long as the only "program" on the chip was for a limited purpose (such as allowing the brain to control the limbs properly) then it should be ok. However, it would have to be tightly controlled and regulated.

[madlilnerd]

Couldn't it malfunction and cause electrocution or something? There's this thing they can put in your brain, kinda like a pacemaker but for people who shake uncontrollerbly, and I suppose this chip is the same kinda idea.

I was writing Sci fi, and I decided that instead of Universal Translators, there will be language chips that download languages into your brain. But the cheap ones malfunction and can cause permanent brain damage and mental health problems

[madlilnerd]

There's something quite offlimits about the human brain. We need it to live, and we don't like other people controlling our lives, so the idea of brain chips is somewhat frightening. It's like in that movie, bicentinial man, they wont accept him as human because he doesn't have a human brain. If you have "add ons" do you still have a human brain? People would allow transplants for any other part of their body, but your brain is your brain and your brain alone, and the idea of something not human up there is as frightening as the idea of AI

[lionhead]

I don't think we humans have enough understanding of the human brain to go tamper with it. Thats like trying too ride a motorcycle while can't even ride a Bike.

[nadia]

[Zeke Zabertini]

[nadia]

But it's a totaly different thing to a pacemaker!

[Hitchhiker]

[nadia]