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cheawick · 01-21-2005, 11:17 PM

Working 12 hour shifts (plus) does silly things to ones mind, I'm sure. But I wound up in a rather plausible conversation and would like to hear others thoughts.

One night this week I was freezing my tail off with two other fellows in a "guard shack" on Eglin Air Force Base, when this strange conversation got started.

So as not to write a story I'll just throw this out as a solid note.

The basis was a comparison of the human brain with a computer. We all agreed that both are similar in the respect that data signals are equivically binary (on and off signals).
The only difference is the interpertation of those signals (BIOS?).

Long story short, we all agreed that given the propper research, an operating system for a computer could be installed on the human brain (Linux, Mac, Windows... etc), and periphials could be intergrated into the human body to interact with other computers or other external devices.

Just wonderig what other folk think of this off the wall concept.

01-21-2005, 11:17 PM	#1 (permalink)
cheawick Regular Contributor Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Mary Esther, FL Posts: 189	Too much Sci-Fi? Loading OS's on humans. Working 12 hour shifts (plus) does silly things to ones mind, I'm sure. But I wound up in a rather plausible conversation and would like to hear others thoughts. One night this week I was freezing my tail off with two other fellows in a "guard shack" on Eglin Air Force Base, when this strange conversation got started. So as not to write a story I'll just throw this out as a solid note. The basis was a comparison of the human brain with a computer. We all agreed that both are similar in the respect that data signals are equivically binary (on and off signals). The only difference is the interpertation of those signals (BIOS?). Long story short, we all agreed that given the propper research, an operating system for a computer could be installed on the human brain (Linux, Mac, Windows... etc), and periphials could be intergrated into the human body to interact with other computers or other external devices. Just wonderig what other folk think of this off the wall concept.