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Future Potential for Neural Information Processing

Neurocin focuses on the basic concepts and evolving applications of neural networks. Researchers are working to assemble direct interfaces between the human brain and electromechanical tools such as data processors. A cybernetic organism is an integrated and interactive merger of living and mechanical subsets. In the decades to come, implantable hardware might deliver a direct interface between the organic neurons of the human body and inorganic machines. The field of engineered rationality seeks to recreate the function of a biological brain with a non-biological system. It is very difficult to produce synthetic intelligence that functions like a living brain because the brain the connections and processing dynamics of a real brain's neurons are constantly changing. Neural networks hold promise as a possible avenue for successful artificial rationality because they make possible adaptation of connections among, and processing parameters of, the individual network subsets. The human brain has around one hundred billion neurons and is commonly around 2% of total body weight. It is divided into two halves labeled hemispheres. The exterior layer of the brain is the cerebral cortex. The cortex is like an enormous flat sheet of tissue that has been compressed into a wrinkled mass that will generally locate into the human skull. The folds of the cortex are labeled gyri and the grooves are labeled sulci. The design of the brain is such that is would fall apart if not properly supported. Its structural integrity is maintained by its immersion and protection in a bath of CerebroSpinal Fluid (CSF) within the skull. Neuroprosthetics is a current subject that seeks to use neural-to-computer interfaces to give humans direct neural control of bionic artificial limbs. Considerable work is already underway at the intersection of neuroscience, robotics, and data processor science to develop simulated prosthetics that are controlled directly by human thought. Click images for more information on biotech and neurotech T-shirts: Questions and suggestions concerning the site Neurocin.com may be sent to: Neurocin.com © 2006 by Neurocin.com