cyborg The first is English: farewell words, it communicates with the thought NICLA Panciera
intromettesse If a cow is now in our conversation with the roar worthy of a baritone, difficult I could understand what is trying to tell us. Quite similar is the perception that in future we will have that old, stupid and antiquanto way of communicating called speech. "
Word of Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University in Britain, and the first bionic man. "It is no longer science fiction and not a matter of technology. Being bionic men and women not only mean a strengthening of the performance of our brain, but can be equipped with new powers unthinkable today, how to communicate my thoughts with our fellow man, to think in four or five dimensions, do not limit ourselves to the five senses '. Even the most addicted
technology and its gadgets can only be astonished by the promises - and the pioneering experiments carried out on his own body - the only man who has linked his nervous system to a computer and broke it put on the Internet, being able to communicate "telegram" with his wife, to move objects thousands of miles away by himself and technically extrasensory perception experiment. "Today we already use external media to increase our computing power and memory, why not integrate them into our body? Why not let our memory becomes the memory of the machines? "He asks, not too provocatively, the British scientist, who recalls such as high tech makes it possible to integrate a number of objects in the body, such as artificial limbs made of carbon, which can be better than the original human, or cochlear implants which restore hearing and artificial retinas.
for Warwick, who in 1998 became a microchip implanted in his left arm in RF in 2002 and engage hundreds of microelectrodes in the nerve endings of the same limb, the next step - he explains - "it will be a brain implant for communication directly from brain to brain. In seven, more than 10 years. "
"If we were cyborgs - he says - we have an entirely different vision of world before us: to change radically the systems of education and health, not only for interpersonal communication. We must continue to investigate the brain function, but in the meantime we are able to create a biological basis of brain neurons in rats. Properly stimulated, they form the neuronal networks that are then implanted into robots, where connections are strengthened with experience. This is real learning. "
"What does being a bat?" Wondered 40 years ago in its "Mortal Questions" The philosopher Thomas Nagel, one of the most important works of philosophy of mind. "Now I have the answer! - Warwick says -. I experienced the perception of ultrasound. Despite the blindfold, I was able to move and know exactly the distance of objects due to the electrical impulses that stimulated my brain so much more intense as I approached them. " And yet - he adds - it says surprised at how slowly advanced in this field. "After the success of the first test, I think that many would follow. Not so: the majority of scientists are extremely conservative. " Despite
receives both state and private funds, the professor is often the target of a fire of emotions ranging from benevolence, such as that expressed by the Bishop of Coventry, "who supported my work for the possible effects the fate of men, hostility, although Warwick ensures that "there are very few colleagues who openly dissent," to the curious position of expectations, as the "many volunteers who contact me to participate in the experiments. Some are suffering from severe neural disorders, while others are journalists, professors or lawyers, aware of the potential of my work. "
Warwick promises a revolution. "I'm afraid that today, more and more obvious the increase of social differences is a consequence of the technology - says -. Indeed, there are huge disparities between the companies concerned. After all, we fly from one continent to another, even if a large part of the world's population can afford. " The scenery, however, could change radically. The bionic man - he said - opens attractive prospects, as the liberation from work more strenuous and monotonous, and a transformation of the concept of free time, a "space" to devote to activities very stimulating, emphasized by the cognitive and sensory generated by symbiosis biology & machines. It is not enough. "My test, such as those to" grow "a brain, make it possible to shed light on its operation, responding to critical medical issues, such as treatment and care of stroke patients, Alzheimer's or Parkinson's." And progress in these areas - he stresses - to care about anyone, even those who are opposed to disturbing hybrid cyborg.
All right, then? Not really. The risks to be bionic - like any creature - are lurking. "The signals of the computer - Warwick contends - could" colonize "is the brain is the body, altering them, becoming actual virus." The biological world and the technology have yet to learn this.
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