Charlie does not let Lisa near those scary ultra loud crinkly biodegradeable Sun Chips bags.

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zawarski 9 hours ago
Sorry Ringo, to the winners go the spoils.
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Darinbob 3 hours ago
It's Australian too. My friend managed the synchrotron there for many years until he passed away a couple yars ago. Synchrotrons never really got the glamour and fame that supercolliders got, but they're generally booked full time with experiments. If you don't want to smash 'em to bits then dazzle 'em instead with your brilliance.
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Rick Schumann 2 hours ago
In a world where everyone is becoming more and more divided, I'm finding shit like you saying "You yankee twats.." to be more and more unacceptable. The U.S. is one of your staunchest allies, Trump not withstanding, so how about you modulate your speech, mmkay? Thanks so much.
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Rick Schumann 2 hours ago
Yeah, that was also my first thought. You couldn't use this technique on living tissue.
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Uploading Brain to the cloud.... (+2)
stfvon007 13 hours ago
So could this be used to do a complete scan of someones brain at the time of death, then later when computer technology advances enough virtually recreate that consciousness in a virtual world?
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Jamu 12 hours ago
Hard to say until we understand consciousness.
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Darinbob 3 hours ago
And right now, we don't even understand unconsciousness!
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Rick Schumann 2 hours ago
Temporarily shut down enough subsystems of the brain and you get 'unconsciousness'.
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robi5 12 hours ago
Wouldn't it just destroy sensitive tissue (or I guess anything of biological origin) before it could image it?
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stfvon007 39 minutes ago
It would be a destructive scan.
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BS (+2)
Viol8 11 hours ago
The mind is the electrical and chemical state of the brain at any given time - the software if you will - its more than just the hardware which is all you can image with an x-ray. In theory you could reproduce a brains hard/wetware exactly already given enough time and manpower just using current systems.
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Admiral Krunch 11 hours ago
The mind is the electrical and chemical state of the brain at any given time - the software if you will - its more than just the hardware which is all you can image with an x-ray. In theory you could reproduce a brains hard/wetware exactly already given enough time and manpower just using current systems.
Assuming that state isn't constantly changing... 

Or even just decaying after say death.
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Viol8 10 hours ago
Well it probably is constantly changing , but the hardware isn't, at least not on a daily basis. If the hardware was all there was to it there'd be no such thing as sleep or unconciousness where the hardware hasn't changed but the mind essentially isn't "running" even though the brain is stlll working. I suppose to use another computer analogy the concious mind has been swapped out for another process :)
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Rick Schumann 2 hours ago
I am not a neuroscientist, but I seem to recall that neurons and such in the brain start decomposing mere minutes after death; a long-dead brain can, I think, only give vague hints as to it's function, and that's what's standing in the way of really understanding it.
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Rick Schumann 2 hours ago
I'm progressively leaning away from using words like 'software' when it comes to a biological brain. It's not digital, it's massively analog. Just because a comparator can take a set of analog inputs and produce a digital output doesn't necessarily mean the system it's a part of is 'digital'. The human brain might just be essentially one massively complex analog computer. As such attempting to model it in digital hardware might be the wrong approach.
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gweihir an hour ago
There is also growing indication, that the human brain is actually just part of things. Nobody knows what the rest is, but Neurosciences finds that it gets more mysterious how things work the closer they look. Another is the constant failure of "AI" to produce even a dim glimmer of real general intelligence. There are more.
Just remember that the idea that the brain produces consciousness and intelligence is pure conjecture. Stating it as a fact is unscientific and in fact on the same level as religion (physicalism in this case).
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Malays2 bowman in a few seconds
"Just remember that the idea that the brain produces consciousness and intelligence is pure conjecture"
So people turn to religion, and all of the hate, war, and oppression that comes with it.
How come people can't deal with the unexplained without creating a death cult?
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gweihir an hour ago
The mind is the electrical and chemical state of the brain at any given time
Nope. That is physicalist drivel (i.e. quasi-religion). The actual scientific state-of-the-art is that nobody knows. In particular, there is no known mechanism for "consciousness" in Physics, i.e. it does not exist in the current standard model. It does not get much more "unknown at this time" than that