From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Date: Tue Nov 05 1996 - 16:06:10 MST
jamesr@best.com wrote:
>
> I believe incremental replacement of individual brain components is
> completely feasible. After all, the brain is a fault-tolerant, error
> correcting design. This would be the easy part though. Extending an
> architecture never designed to be extended would be a much more
> difficult pursuit. Beyond simple component for component
> replacement, high level architectural augmentation should be extremely
> difficult.
>
Actually, if you look at the growth the human brain experiences from
prenatal to teen-age years, it is quite capable of extension.
What do you mean by high level?
Mike
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