Chapter 9:
Ah memories. An interesting chapter. The human brain is such an incredibly complex organ. The fact that they would try and perform tests and experiments on the brain is outstanding. Unfortunately, I just find it hard to be able to adequately test and experiment on the human brain due to difficulty and ethical reasons. I think memories is more than just neurons firing all around in the brain. I do not have an idea how physically/biologically memories are stored, but I have yet to be convinced that it's neurons alone. How can this be applied to computer science? A way to simulate brain activity in a computer would be a start (such as neural nets). Being able to simulate the brain in a computer could help open us to more answers in the human brain.
Chapter 10:
This chapter was more about surgeries. Specifically, surgeries on the brain. This chapter made me feel a little light-headed while reading it. Many of these patients had holes drilled to their brains where the surgeon would slash or cut certain areas of the brain. A majority of the patients would report back as feeling better or even cured of their depression, OCD, or epilepsy. I find a lot of these to be hard to believe. To me, it does not make since that a simple slice here or injection of alcohol there results in cures. The surgeons had no idea what they were exactly doing other than poking around the brain. How are they suppose to know where exactly, precisely to cut? I would like for one of these patients to have undergone a fake lobotomy to see if they would have become "healed". Of course, I'm happy for the patients who feel better. It still however feels fishy to me. As to how this can be applied to computer science? I honestly don't know how. I mean, there's the obvious make surgeon robots to go in and cut your brain a bit I suppose. I still think that some sort of way to simulate the human brain or to be able to "debug" a human brain would be very beneficial. As to how? I have no idea.
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