What happens when the memory management rules of the human brain begin to lag behind those of the computers?

Question

The computers are evolving hardware and software-wise faster than we humans with our millions of year old slower DNA-coded nervous systems are evolving?(Can anyone here dispute this last stmt? It leads to the Q asked here or vice-versa.)

Answer 1

Humans are carbon intelligence systems.  Computers needed humans to create them and of course will some day get to the point where they can develop themselves faster and better than we could and then maybe they wont even need us anymore.  Or better yet, they will carry our genes on through to a new beginning somewhere long after life on this planet is no longer possible.  

Answer 2

Sorry, the premise is unsound. Computers are not designed to work like brains, the difference between a brain and computer extends well beyond bits of processing or memory capacity.

Essentially, the fundamental difference has been described as follows. The computer was designed to work with all pieces of information being treated identically - this means that any given bit on a usb key, or hard drive, or any pattern of holes on a paper tape, can be anything - it can represent a number or a letter or a picture. The brain has been described to work in a hierarchical fashion - cells are wired together not to process anything faster but to do [many many] specific jobs.

An illustration: differentiate between a cat and a dog. This is a really easy task for any human who is vaguely familiar with the species. You can look at any picture of a cat or of a dog, any color, from any point of view, heck even a drawing - and you know whether it is a cat or a dog. A pretty young kid can do this. Yet a computer, with all of its processing power, is incredibly bad at performing this task. The idea of a generalization, without explicitly defined boundaries is something that computers (as they currently exist) really cannot do - regardless of their processing or memory capacity.

Here are some other differences between brains and computers:

brains are plastic: they change throughout are lives adapting to our growing body and injuries. That doesn't mean that you couldn't make a computer "plastic" - it means that plasticity is a fundamental part of the brain, but (to date) not in a computer.

Brains use electrochemical signaling - although much of neuroscience over the 20th century focused on the binary response of neurons (the action potential) modern work is looking more and more at the influence of non-binary information in coding in the brain.

Brains are continuously interacting dynamic systems - A computer has a clock that syncs up the activity. One computation = one clock tick. There aren't clock ticks in the brain (though there are many mechanisms for synchronizing information amongst areas). The various bits of the brain are constantly interacting, and therefore lead to a dynamic system. Can't really get into an explanation of the importance of dynamics in the brain, but needless to say - there is a schism between computer and brain function here as well.

Answer 3

the matchin will be for ever a machin and what everwe can to improve it will never be able to self somthing we don't add to it

Answer 4

computer will still have to over come Artificial Intelligence < AI> and from what I see with the kids of today.... we very well could end up slave to the system...<matrix>

leads to my question  " could Bill Gates be Satan in disguise?

Answer 5

Then the computers win, just like in Terminator 2.