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Replacing the Human Brain: Wild Idea Promises Incredible Future
Dick Pelletier, futurist and science/technology columnist, NV, asserts, given the predicted growth and development in nanotechnology, that by 2050 we will be able to replace neurons in our brains with non-biological neurons thereby enhancing our capacities in computation, cognition, memory, communication and overall consciousness.
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Keywords: Brain cells, non-biological, neuron, carbon, nanotubes, synapse, computer, plasticity, consciousness, reverse-engineering, Blue Brain Project, simulate, machine, singularity, Kurzweil, cerebral cortex, cognition, IBM, supercomputer, memory, John Burch, nanofactory, nanosystems, nanotechnology, nanoseconds, nanobot, cyborg.