Lord X

nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) Discoveries - Excited Atoms Advance Quantum Computing - US National Science Foundation (NSF)

More powerful computers on the horizon.

What does this mean for the future of computing?

And the future of our planet?

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Lord X

nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) Discoveries - A Beautiful Memory - US National Science Foundation (NSF)

This one goes along with the previous article.

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Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

Ego Tripping

Sometimes I feel we're already to the technology level of Star Trek but we just haven't realized it yet. God damn I hope to live for another 80 years or so to watch this all go down.

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Lord X

Our thinking might be to that level. I think we just need to find the right way to effectively produce it.

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Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

non-thinker

Have Lord X or Ego Trippin heard of Tom Campbell, or My Big TOE? I found him on U Tube and watched all 18 of his videos and I highly recomend!!!!

Center

Thanks for the link. Good read. I'm no scientist so I can only speculate with my opinion on the matter...

I think they are starting to harness and document the power of the trinity. Energy is, energy is not, energy both is and is not. The constant hypocracy that fuels and drives our existence.

^dont you love pure opinion

It just boggles my mind how they can turn this into tangible computer technology. This makes me want to take some classes...

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Mafoo

I remember reading Michael Chrichton's book, Timeline. He talked about a quantum computer using all of the quantum states of the electrons. I didnt think what he was talking about WAS REAL! i think it will be interesting to see how the technology is applied to everyday life.

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Kompressor

I've often wondered about the point of convergence for quantum computing and the storage/decision-making processes of organic life forms.

Consider the rat brain robot:

Rat-brain robot

A robot controlled by a blob of rat brain cells could provide insights into diseases such as Alzheimer's, University of Reading scientists say.

The project marries 300,000 rat neurons to a robot that navigates via sonar. The neurons are now being taught to steer the robot around obstacles and avoid the walls of the small pen in which it is kept. By studying what happens to the neurons as they learn, its creators hope to reveal how memories are laid down.

Hybrid machines

The blob of nerves forming the brain of the robot was taken from the neural cortex in a rat foetus and then treated to dissolve the connections between individual neurons. Sensory input from the sonar on the robot is piped to the blob of cells to help them form new connections that will aid the machine as it navigates around its pen. As the cells are living tissue, they are kept separate from the robot in a temperature-controlled cabinet in a container pitted with electrodes. Signals are passed to and from the robot via Bluetooth short-range radio.

The brain cells have been taught how to control the robot's movements so it can steer round obstacles and the next step, say its creators, is to get it to recognise its surroundings. Once the robot can do this the researchers plan to disrupt the memories in a bid to recreate the gradual loss of mental faculties seen in diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Studies of how neural tissue is degraded or copes with the disruption could give insights into these conditions.

"One of the fundamental questions that neuroscientists are facing today is how we link the activity of individual neurons to the complex behaviours that we see in whole organisms and whole animals," said Dr Ben Whalley, a neuroscientist at Reading. "This project gives us a really useful and unique opportunity to look at something that may exhibit whole behaviours but still remains closely tied to the activity of individual neurons," he said.

The Reading team is not the first to harness living tissue to control robots. In 2003, Dr Steve Potter at the Georgia Institute of Technology pioneered work on what he dubbed "hybrots" that marry neural tissue and robots. In earlier work, scientists at Northwestern University Medical Center in the US wired a wheeled robot up to a lamprey in a bid to explore novel ways of controlling prosthetics.

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Using the processing and sensory power of quantum computing/mechanics combined with the logical and illogical decision-making and learning of organic lifeforms just blows my mind at the possible cyberorganism that could arise.

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ggpr

The horizon episode "Human V2.0" from 2006 deals with a lot of the stuff you guys are talking about. I'm pretty sure it discusses both the rat brain and the future of quantum computing power. I'm sure you guys would enjoy it.

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