Become a cyborg, then. Replace muscles, bones and other improve-able parts with robotic implants, but keep everything else organically bio-engineered. That way, you can use mutant regeneration powers and robotic armament coming from unspeakable parts of your body at the same time.

Finally, a real use for Shook's Anal Kanoon.

Phantom, were discussing how to seperate the brain from the body, not whether doing this is more efficient than just keeping a normal body. I agree, brain-body seperation is about the most absurd thing ever, but we have to accept certain criteria when trying to explain part of the game.

I consider that part to be relatively trivial, as you are removing complexities, and replacing them with better known systems.
If we can make human-grade machines, we ought to be able to work with real flesh.

The brain has chemical energy input, which can already be replicated. Life support for a brain would need biological material as input, but this can be provided in many forms, and genetically engineered bacteria and yeast could be produced to provide the perfect energy drink for your mind, complete with the various mood altering compounds so loved by our current earthly societies.

Getting signal output is still cutting edge stuff for us in 2009, but we are seeing great steps forward regularly.
Sending back new data is also complicated, but it has already been shown that the brain's neural network will adapt to even fairly complex nerve stimulation, for example an array of electrode on the tongue, hooked up to an image processor. While limited to a low resolution and grayscale value, test results were very successful.

However, while it's fine and good to be a brain in a jar now, you're stuck dealing with all this crazy bandwidth for your sensors.
1080p resolution binocular vision is going to take quite a lot of band. And that's leaving out the network of touch sensors, audio, and other parts of your system. And that's just for a humanoid biped. Sure, you could probably get away with a mars rover-like avatar, but you're severly compromising your senses. (If you've ever played with those little RC cars with cameras, the lack of sound and low rez screen gets terrifically maddening.)
I suppose this is why cortex command is so pixilated? As good a plotwise excuse as any.

Personally, I want this ghost out of its shell as soon as possible. That's not to say that I would be happier permanently removed, by any means, but some tasks that are so complicated to perform in a fleshy body would be made trivial by highly accurate stepping motors and differently shaped actuarial systems.

Cortex Command isn't lagging: YOUR MIND IS!
A solution to this problem: merge the brain with some external processors?

I had given this thought some consideration, as my focus in engineering is starting to lean towards biomedical.


Yoshimitsu [Tekken 3]. <3

The progress technology is making reminds me of the "aliens" from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

First, all organic like ourselves.
Then they start replacing limbs.
Then organs.
Until eventually, they make an artificial body for the mind to occupy.

Then they make an artificial mind to store themselves in. But eventually that is shed aside as well.
Until eventually they're these ghostly floating conscious entities in a matrix of light.

Cool stuff.

from what you can see in the devlog it looks as if we have the brain in a bunker hooked up to dialysis machines of unknown size, we also have no visible connection of the brain to any parts, it is in a jar and does not touch the sides of the jar; this suggests that there is a wireless method of thransferring information to and from the brain.

I assume that the robot body is not self sufficient for extended periods of time and the brain would eventually die from starvation if left with the little ressources inside that body.

I think eventually we could potentially become like the people in "3001 odyssey", able to store an entire human being as data.

I vote nanomachines.
Though if we're able to get data in and out of a brain, and feed it too, we should certainly have regenerating actors. Oh wait, we do.

It's irrelevant and a tangent from the conversation, but has anyone else really wanted to see bunker systems that need power systems?
For example, energy field doors powered from a central PSU. I think I need to get into scene making.

that would be awesome. you should make/suggest to make a heavily guarded power station that keeps all the doors "alive" or sends out streams of energy through metallic tunnels that create deadly doors. of course, i would probably just crash a rocket into it ... but i guess you could make a forcefield similar to the little shielder gun tool and have a doorway sized entrance.

I'd like to point out that it's already been tried.

Ghost in the Shell, anyone? (Awesome series.)

But of course!
What self-respecting futurist cannot know it?

THIS WHOLE THREAD JUST ATE 10 MINUTES OF TIME I COULD HAVE BEEN SLEEPING IN ♥♥♥♥ ALL OF YOU IN THE EYES D:<
:D Made the thread almost worth it.
Uh, I say we should continue thinking. Your brain isnt really a muscle, it doesnt wiggle about in your skull or anything.
This is good. Plates could be added to the weak, fleshy part's skin, and held in place by an exoskeleton, as well as the toughened endoskeleton, and generally better all around. Seems a tad self-centered though, making humans that powerful. We should find a way to give science/intelligence to some of the other species around. Silly people
A picture: My time has been wasted enough.

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Laser nipples?

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Is that what you drew?

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Awesome. Now to show this to a Sci-in-tist or Enj-i-neeer and get them to make it for me.