From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Thu Aug 17 2000 - 10:09:27 PDT
Gordon Mohr wrote:
>
> # You will need:
> #
> # * Advanced neuroimaging equipment (the current best is an fMRI).
> # * A neurosurgical team.
> # * Off-the-shelf hardware for brain stimulation.
> # * Disposable chimpanzees.
> # * Adult research subjects with the skill you want to Specialize on.
> # * Research subjects who are young enough to have high brain
> # plasticity (i.e. prepubescent) but old enough to give informed
> # consent. (A neat trick discussed in a separate article, The Ethics
> # of Cognitive Engineering.)
> # * A hidden lab in a foreign country and extremely discreet personnel.
> (from http://www.singinst.org/algernon.html )
>
> Will it help to hide the lab inside a volcano?
>
Hehe.. well while neurohacking might be a path to accelerating the
Singularity, it isn't very fast. Hence our focus on the AI approach.
-- Brian Atkins Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.singinst.org/home.html (temp site)
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