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Osakan - I think I love you.
What you've just written is ... brilliant. I accept it as Canon!
I would have had a process zero eat at the skull a little for a few milimeters and then flush the material safely through the blood to be collected in the kidneys.
Woah, there. Tom is proposing something that photographs and transmits human brain maps. Pictures, places, and composition of neurons and synapses. A dumb camera, if you will. It just records data and sends it to the ST facilities for their systems to do the rest.
Something that actually understands what, how, and why the brain is doing something -- fully comprehending the interplay of quadrillions of synapses, and the effect each has on another -- would require a supercomputer of colossal proportions. At the very least a computer on part with those used by ST backup facilities. Yamatai hasn't even managed to shrink down the brain scanning gear and computers into portable backpacks for field teams, let alone microscopic versions of those computers. Unless I'm mistaken there's some sort of "don't push the high-end tech barrier any further" restriction in place.
Zakalwe said:The 'ST' takes days to do properly, rather than the minute or two at most for ST technology...It's a far less advanced technology than ST, and done in a way I can understand. I honestly don't understand the principle behind ST.
The implant has inbuilt defenses against external control, and can't transmit to non-technological sources...In addition to this NovaCorp uses a different technological tradition to Yamatai and Nepleslia.
Rob said:The Star Army and related bodies have the ability to form matter from energy, manipulate string theory for weaponisation and form living creatures from nano-machines. This is indeed a huge step forward from such things... Isn't it? Someone tell me it is, just to make me sure I'm not being retarded! PLEASE!??
A system with the ability to manipulate individual stored molecules for data storage (which would, incidentally, have around the same capacity per cell-size space as a human brain) is a simple option in this case, thus rendering your argument worthless. Good day. (And on the subject of feasibility, I would refer you to the technology level of the previous answer. And also tell you to explain to me how the brain achieves the same function autonomously.)
Computational power was never mentioned. This is a dumb system – a smaller, faster, larger-capacity HDD if you will. Now kindly stop spewing up your breakfast onto the page, it's horrible to watch and smells odd.
It is one thing, isn't it. And so is this. And many factions would already be willing to do that. And it's not hyperintelligence, although if you think so then perhaps you could do with the system. It might enable you to read the descriptions placed in front of you.
Theoretically any race that can master femto-scale tech easily be able to engineer computing equipment billions of times more efficient than anything nanotech-based. So having Nekos with hundreds or thousands-- heck, billions of times smarter than your average human shouldn't be that difficult to achieve. Yet they're not. Not even a hundred times smarter, or ten times smarter. Perhaps neurotech in SARP is much more complex than it is modern theory indicates. Perhaps its because trying to roleplay Nekovalkyrja with billions of times their current intelligence would be problematic. Whatever the reason, it seems neurotech isn't as proportionately advanced as the other technologies of SARP.
See above argument, which seems to, incidentally, render this argument invalid. Nekovalkyrja and other SARP races don't seem to have even a tiny portion of their theoretical potential intelligence given SARP technology, for whatever reason.
I shall repeat myself: Something that actually understands what, how, and why the brain is doing something -- fully comprehending the interplay of quadrillions of synapses, and the effect each has on another -- would require a supercomputer of colossal proportions. Not only that, but the human mind is a non-linear system. To not only keep comprehend, keep pace with, but actually improve upon it would require Sophia to be above a certain (and significantly advanced) threshold of intelligence and learning capability. Adding a bit of extra programming, like 'do what boss wants' instead of 'do what owner wants' would not be a big stretch given that it's far from dumb.
Rob said:The IC point for this is that the original human creators of the neko didn't want a race that much cleverer than them - disabling failsafes built into a sentient war machine is a simple matter if you ARE that war machine and you're millions of times cleverer than the people that put it there. You'll notice that even now, Neko rule the Yamataian empire.
OOCly... Can YOU roleplay something millions of times smarter than you? Would you WANT to?
I thought not.
See above argument, which seems to, incidentally, render this argument invalid. Nekovalkyrja and other SARP races don't seem to have even a tiny portion of their theoretical potential intelligence given SARP technology, for whatever reason.
See above argument.
A system that, as stated, DOES NOT COMPREHEND BUT SIMPLY STORES BRAIN PATTERNS ON A REGULAR BASIS (and read that several times so you get the idea) DOES NOT REQUIRE A WHOLE LOT OF PROCESSING POWER.
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This is a MEMORY REDUNDANCY system. Will not restate self AGAIN.
In a system that is a nanoscopic latice layered through a brain, and taking into account MODERN DAY imaging technology, this would not only be a simple task but a very quick one also. It might now catch -everything- in a passive state, but when activated to record a memory by the user, it would certainly act to be able to record and induce the same electrical patterns in the brain at a later date.