Or is it?

Today on the news scientist’s are running a robot using the brain of a mouse. The brain is kept in a fridge and the robot is learning from the electrical brainwaves coming from it.

I really don’t know how I feel about this, my first thought, (a gut reaction), was No that is a step to far, a robot that can learn from brainwaves. If it connects to the wrong brainwaves it could ended up learning anything, and I always find the idea of a computer/robot that can learn/teach itself, bloody frightening. I am not very bright and don’t understand all the ins and outs of robotics, and yes I did read a lot of sci-fi growing up. But what is to stop these robots and computers from taking what they think is the higher ground and taking over? Please don’t give me it will never happen, who would have thought we would be able to fly around the world, go into space, split the atom and use it to kill God knows how many?

Then the thought occurred that it could be used for paraplegics/people with body wasting diseases, a body could be built and the brain popped in the top. What you would get is a body that works. Then this question popped into my head, is our consciousness in our brain, are we our brain or is our brain us. If we remove the brain do we still feel, would we still remember who we were? You can’t really ask a mouse how he is feeling.

I have a really uneasy feeling about this one, what do you think?

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