Are you familiar with the movie eXistenZ? Though it was primarily a movie designed as a thought experiment to the implications of VR, it offered one very interesting possibility - advanced biological computers. Neurons already reorganize on their own during early development and even in adulthood. What's stopping us from utilizing this technique in hardware? The notion is similar to programming all the GUI components in Java when IDEs (e.g NetBean) already offer visual GUI component creation. We seek chips which may alter themselves, yet biology is already there.
We're already capable of using electrodes to analyze and transmit data to and from the brain. There's also software that models the brain to such accuracies that people base their research almost entirely off of the firings simulated by it (Neuron).
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