what is a human

Kai · Post by **Kai** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:40 pm

I just thought if you seperate body and soul (hard and software) of a human would anypart have humanrights and if you could copy yourself onto a pc would you run the programm or woulsd you fear the effect of beeing stuck in a pc(especially on one running xp)

sorry this might be a little bit spammy but I'm serios and this could be a great movie

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:42 pm

theres an interesting book i read called "the footprints of god" or something like that. Instead programming AI, they just upload a human being into a really powerful supercomputer. unfortuantely, it was connected to the internet and it holds the world hostage until they can convince it it dosent exist or something like that

it was a good book.

Post by **marshallh** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:45 pm

You all need to watch the Lawnmower Manit will change the way you think of cyborg ai forever :p

Kai · Post by **Kai** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:49 pm

oh I've seen that but it's been a while not that mind changing to me

NES_fanatic · Post by **NES_fanatic** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:49 pm

A human's genetic information could only be held on a computer the size of a small city. Our brains might not be as fast, but when it comes to capacity we beat supercomputers several times over.

Kai · Post by **Kai** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:50 pm

but we only use 10% of our brains some more and quite a lot less

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:53 pm

Kai wrote:.....and quite a lot less

hehe...........like me

NES_fanatic · Post by **NES_fanatic** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:53 pm

Yeah but they're talking about our conciousness. There's still all the other space for memories, sight. etc.
I've had a hard time remembering things lately. Maybe I should get my brain defragmented.

Kai · Post by **Kai** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:56 pm

to delete unnecessary informations I use alcohol (seriously I often have blackouts that's really hard cause I always forget the whole day)

NES_fanatic · Post by **NES_fanatic** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:58 pm

But you can't rewrite dear braincells. You're taking a cold, foamy magnet to your only harddrive.

Post by **Gamelver** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:01 pm

eh, perhaps it was already defective

...

sorry Kai, had to

....

Kai · Post by **Kai** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:02 pm

that's the reason I didn't drink half a year cause it's not funny I heard wild storys about what I do then but sometimes I don't even know somethings missing and then I'm told I've been dancing on the bar singing "I'ts raining man" that's really embarrasing

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:23 pm

NES_fanatic wrote:A human's genetic information could only be held on a computer the size of a small city. Our brains might not be as fast, but when it comes to capacity we beat supercomputers several times over.

Sorry but the human Gnome is mapped and stored in a computer

You mean to get the amount of storage that our brains have? We have 2 Trillion raincells approximately.If you think of each one as a bit I cannot believe we dont run out!

According to that we only have 220'ish GB of brain space

I guess im wrong and our brain doesnt work like a binary thing anyway. We have plenty of space.

joevennix · Post by **joevennix** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:31 pm

Brain cells must be able to do a lot at once, think about it. They process vision at at least 15 fps, feelings from all over the body at who knows how many times a second, smell, balance, sound, taste, and many more dealing with internal regulation. No wimpy computer could handle that task.

dj-spuddy · Post by **dj-spuddy** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:32 pm

sam fisher wrote:
NES_fanatic wrote:A human's genetic information could only be held on a computer the size of a small city. Our brains might not be as fast, but when it comes to capacity we beat supercomputers several times over.
Sorry but the human Gnome is mapped and stored in a computer You mean to get the amount of storage that our brains have? We have 2 Trillion raincells approximately.If you think of each one as a bit I cannot believe we dont run out!

According to that we only have 220'ish GB of brain space I guess im wrong and our brain doesnt work like a binary thing anyway. We have plenty of space.

Thats allright I suppose, Would people than with a larger brain mass have a higher number of braincells resulting in higher space value?