The future of the mind (Michio Kaku) Part two
Part one : The future of the mind (Michio Kaku) Part one
More than that, the scientists will be able to build a minded network that allows the humans to share their feelings and memories between people just like the social networks nowadays. Imagine that one day your children will take a look how you were messaging with your friends or lovers, how you used to send messages without feelings and emotions, only by reading and understanding, without a real or material feelings on the network, emotions that you can touch and hold, emotions that you can read and feel them at the same time. It's not a part of imagination anymore, we are really living in the future, it's just a matter of time.
Politicians were attracted by this revolution and this huge development of the mind, and the science of mind became a source of competition between the greatest and the largest two economic powers, so two independent projects were financed by the previous president of the U.S Barack Obama and the European Union, these two projects are all about the Reverse brain engineering to reveal the secret of the brain and its paths in order to understand the beginning and the essence of mental issues and also to create a copy of the human's brain. Some people may ask a question about the immortality word, of course the human body will grow old and die but with this technologies the conscious and the memories will remain forever.
The most interesting part in this book is when Michio tries to explain the relation between the brain and the body, when you try to touch the left part of your brain the right part moves, the opposite when you touch the right part, but more than that, if you try to cut the link between the two parts (Left is disconnected from Right), you are about to create two different personalities, each side of the brain tries to control for example your hand like the two sides are fighting. It's weird but it's real !.
The computers nowadays are able to read the brain signals and translate them into an understandable digital language, so the mind now is able to contact the computer directly and take control of everything around (Brain Computer Interface). The book explains some ideas that for us it was impossible for them to become real now like saving memories and picturing dreams, imagine that one day you will be able to post on Facebook something you dreamed about last night. Also the book discusses the types of consciousness, and the ability to find out a solution to mental some mental issues such as Alzheimer, Parkinson and depression ... etc.
The important part talks about super-humans or the one who have super powers like the man who succeeded in drawing all Manhattan in one ride on the Helicopter, he was able to remember the picture and re-draw it exactly like and with every single detail and for many cities like London, Hong-Kong ... etc, or the ones who had an accident exactly in the Temporal lobe part and they became genius in maths ... these people have a very powerful ability to remember things, they can remember events like someone who can tall you what he was doing 30 years ago with details, for example he was reading a book and he stopped in the line and page number X and where was he while reading it. There is a theory saying that forgetting things is a normal thing that could happen to everyone, we all learn things and forget other things at the same time but nowadays this theory can be cancelled, in this case (People in the previous example) these people forgot how to forget, or they can't forget something anymore, the forgetting function in their brains is unavailable.
The most interesting book for the ones who want to understand the human's mind and how it works.
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