With much fanfare, Alan demonstrated a brand new brain-computer interface on a live YouTube stream. The device actually looks a bit like a Chinese one-dollar coin, and one side of it has wires sticking out of it that are embedded in the human skull. The device can detect when human neurons are triggered or send out electrical signals to trigger them. As to why this device was developed, the company replied that because with the loss of time, everyone more or less at this level will have problems, including memory loss or the rest of the disease, then he is very interested in changing the status quo, and he also put forward his own good ideas for the future, the future you can save their own memories, and can recover their own memories, which means that You can store and back up your memories and then restore them. If your cells were frozen and repopulated, and your memories were constantly going to be fed through the technology of human cloning, wouldn't your existence be a part of eternal life?
If it were you, would you want immortality with your memories intact?
And the piglet they were experimenting on was a piglet that had been implanted with the interface two months earlier, and everything it sent out from the area of the brain connected to its nose was monitored and sent to a cell phone via Bluetooth technology. In fact, we all know that memory and the brain system is so complex that scientific and technological exploration has only gone so far, so is it really possible to copy and paste memories through this device, as the head of the experiment said?
Before we look at this question, we must first remember how memory came to be, and because of our own continuous evolution, people's knowledge of memory has been gradually improved. The prevailing view is that the neuron theory suggests that it is the connections between nerve cells that are made, and that there is a certain kind of coding that goes on in this dynamic. Neurons not only have the ability to stimulate and transmit signals, but they also have the ability to record the process, and they synthesize proteins that alter the precise structure of the brain so that the brain proteins are relocated in the cell membrane or produce modifications in the proteins, which can cause the connections to be strengthened or weakened, and allow the nervous system to grow or to branch. branching.
So such changes occur throughout the entire range of neurons in the brain, and so they are all ***involved*** in the modulation of the oscillatory properties of the network, and so that's why, as you grow older, your memories are still widely stored.
So with these basics in mind, is it really possible to replicate memories in the future? This copy backup more than once in the film and television works, the Matrix or Doraemon have, of course, this is the screenwriters set out of the sci-fi scene, in real life, the United States has done such an experiment, they to monkeys and mice as the experimental object, the use of a kind of manually regulate the hippocampus, the successful realization of a short period of time within the process of memory transformation, of course, this hippocampus is also man-made, finally! This experiment shocked the entire biological world, in a sense, human beings have been able to artificially intervene in memory and complete the copying and backing up of memory, but the results of this experiment have not yet made a major breakthrough in human beings. In other words, whether it can be used in humans depends on the final results.
The results have also led experts to raise concerns about memory backup, firstly, whether legal risks should be avoided to protect personal privacy, and secondly, whether our memories need to be copied in their entirety. And finally, how do we screen for good or bad memories, and can we target only the good memories and delete the bad ones?
What can be determined now is that either type of memory exists. Pros and cons both maybe wait until the day you are able to be able to hold on to a copy, if it were you would you want to store memories this way?