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that works too because you would need some sort of interface to mediate between the electronic HUD's and the person. You may be thinking of wiring someone up with a keyboard and a monitor. This kind of visualization is the form that a virtual machine would take.

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I know I can get my brain to run very simple programs quite easily because I once built a computer and I used to troubleshoot it's software by imagining, in my brain, step-by-step what goes on inside the computer. That would involve constructing some sort of virtual machine and I suspect a brain would be very slow at the kinds of task that a digital computer is designed to do. In which case, it can run programs written for this computer inside the simulation of this computer. If 'yes' then, in principle, the brain can be used to simulate any other computer. So lets put it another way: is the human brain 'Turing complete'? how would you tell if, say, windows, was successfully installed and running?) Is that correct? In which case, you are asking if non-native software could be made to run on a brain (still need to say what you mean by 'run'. You seem to be thinking in terms of the kind of software you may run on a digital computer like the one I'm using to type this out. Why wouldn't the human personality and subconscious be considered an OS? Is 'thinking' the same 'being harnessed as a computer'? If not, then how is it different? What I mean is could the brain be harnessed as a computer of sorts to run an os or other computer programs.Īgain - what do you mean by 'harnessed as a computer'?

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I can even do my mental arithmetic using the same series of steps that the computer uses, does that help? Is my brain running a computer program when I am doing mental arithmetic? The input and output are the same after all. I have a computer program that does addition. So what do you count as software, and how would you be able to tell if it was running? Presumably you do not count your personality as software. But you chose not to :(įor instance - AI researchers sometimes talk about a person's personality as being a computer program or a collection of programs running on a brain. Better: by exploring that question, you would have gained some insights into computers and the brain. By telling me why you think your brain is not running a program right now, you would have explained what you mean in a way that I can understand. Without knowing this, it is not possible to answer your question. If you want me to get the point, you'll have to explain what it is )įrom where I sit, it is directly to the point that I want to make, vis: you have not said what you mean by a 'computer program' or what you mean by 'running a program'. Actually your answer wasn't even technically related.

Keep in mind though, it might be only that - a spot - just an ultrasound problem.Your kind of missing the point of the question. I will be right there to help as much as I can.

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Try and hang in there, and when you get more answers please feel free to message me. I got news that my son would have a rare cerebellar malformation and hydrocephalus at my 18 week ultrasound (he's almost 6 now) and I know how scary it is. If you have any other details, please post them and I'll give you as much info as I know. My son has a load of neurological issues, I have become quite familiar with brain anomalies. Did they make any mention of where on the brain the spot was located? If it's the cerebellum, it might be a dandy walker cyst, if it's the ventricles, it might be hydrocephalus, it really could be so many different things. But the diagnosis varies greatly depending on where the spot is in the brain and what exactly the spot is.

So I'm leaning towards something fluid filled. On ultrasound, the darker areas might be more likely to be considered a spot, and typically the darker areas are fluid. It depends on what they think is a 'spot'. A 'spot' to me would indicate a cyst of some kind, but that's really only a guess. Well, it could really be a number of things.