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Top Neuroscientist Warns That Human Cyborgs Are a Terrible Idea
Friday, March 21, 2014 19:03
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Researchers are always looking at ways to harness the power of the human brain, and augment our grey matter—be it mind-controlled drones, brain-machine interfaces, or using brain scans to predict future criminals. But some scientists warn we shouldn’t go cyborg for at least another 100 years.
Paul Werbos, a program manager at the National Science Foundation and one of the country’s leading neuroscientists, said that there could be dire consequences if we continue to experiment with the brain before we completely understand how it works.
“We’re trying to reverse engineer the brain so we can understand it much better than we do,” Werbos said at a panel in Washington, D.C. discussing the state of the future. “But, with the state of technology right now, in 100 years we might be able to reverse engineer [a brain] the level of a mouse.”
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2014/03/top-neuroscientist-warns-that-human-cyborgs-are-a-terrible-idea/
