Artificial brain - the door to open life

What people wish for is very likely to come true.

Can artificial brains help people live?

Have you ever heard of artificial hands, artificial legs or sometimes artificial hearts ? These are all miraculous advances in medical technology, helping a number of patients regain the opportunity to live a good life like many others. People say that with technology that is more advanced and modern, we will have all the parts of the body labeled " artificial" , but reaching the level . artificial brain is exactly what few people dare to think.

Yet the seemingly unthinkable thing has become true, as scientists at MicroNano Research Institute at RMIT University, based in Melbourne, Australia, have created new memory cells ( You can be an artificial neuron, which is 10,000 times smaller than a human hair. These cells are fully capable of memorizing information and treating them as true neurons.

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From a scientific perspective

There are many perspectives for this research project, but if standing on the science and technology perspective, this is a great step in human research . If you have ever learned about basic computing, you will know that our information data is now based on two numbers 0 and 1, and from there, makes everything in machine data. But to achieve the "range" of neurons, that's not enough. And that's why when Hussein Nili - the lead author of this project, told Mashable reporters that they were able to overcome the binary 0 and 1 binary limit , the perspective of the human brain. Create has become closer than ever.

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Increasing the " power" of nano-memory cells also means that they are able to process information in real time, mimicking human brain cells during reception and treatment activities. and transfer information to other nano cells. Simply understood, it is like a complete copy of what you learn about neurons in universal Biology textbooks. This is an important key that allows us to create artificial brain tissue or even a complete brain.

But what do they create?

Application of artificial brain

In case we approach the creation of an artificial brain, there are two main uses: for the purpose of upgrading the technology system and for the purpose of human health.

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Let's talk about the technology first, though that may not be the aim of the researchers to create this breakthrough. They can (which are likely to) become tools to upgrade the power of the machines , the current AI. Say no, they can make the power of technology devices increase many times compared to today. But this is only at the predicted level.

The second meaning, and also the main meaning of scientists when researching this new technology, is to serve human health . The brain is the most important part of the human body, and therefore every step in brain research has affected the lives of many patients globally. But because of moral reasons, research on the brain always encounters difficulties and social barriers (thank the scientists silently because they have overcome so many things to give us the same knowledge as nowadays). So if you have an artificial brain that mimics a human brain, it will be a great tool for studying diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

This is in terms of research, but in terms of healing, the regeneration of artificial brains has the same influence as the regeneration of other parts of the body (of course, much higher difficulty). . Not everyone is born with a complete brain like everyone else. Cases of diseases such as epilepsy or impairment of the body due to brain impairment are not lacking, and in most cases, human interaction to deal with the disease is very difficult. But if we can create artificial brain tissue to repair those deficiencies , it will be an opportunity for sick people to have the normal life they desire.

Beyond that, the brain-related technologies can, yes, only be possible, will affect how humans exist. In theory, people only die completely when the brain is deactivated. And when even the heart can be artificial to pump blood to the body, maintaining brain activity with scientific intervention will help people get closer to the " formula " that ages. life. Now there is no need for monastic life like kings in movies to be able to live, just by scientific technology, we can do that.

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The story of the future

It is still quite early to tell how far scientists will go, or what they will do with their newly studied technology. But in a scenario that is not too miraculous, artificial brain technology will be able to become one of the things that radically changes the future of people. Lack of arms and legs, we have prosthetic limbs, reduced function of a part of the body, we can also create " artificial items" , and when the brain can also be done like that , a new era will appear.

The question is, do we really need the "longevity" in such a way?