In one of my messages I stated that trying to make a computer work like a human brain is a bunch of nonsense – won’t be done anytime in the next 50 years, and that a computer should be used to think like a computer.

That being said, think about 50 years ago, how people grew up with no computers and learned about the human body and brain. They did not have the computer science training that they require in today’s medical fields.

A group of brain scientists/doctors have used a Digital MRI to test subjects and of course patients. They have been able to map the human brain like never before. What makes this an AI topic, is that these teams and individuals grew up with computers and speak computer lingo much better than the scientist did 50 years ago. They actually explain the medical breakthroughs in a somewhat computer lingo.

They also had 1 patient who showed up at a military base in the USA and reported for duty. This individual thought he was 22 years old, that his wife was about to have their 1^st baby, and so on. To him, all of his thoughts and memories were of a specific date 10 years prior. He was 32 years old when this happened. After a ton of medical prodding, they put him in the Digital MRI and found a cist on the brain. It was pushing a pipeline closed that they did not realize up to this event what it actually was. They drained the cist and all of the last 10 years of memories came back as he woke after surgery. They then learned for the 1^st time that repetitive thoughts and also timed thoughts are stored in a specific portion of the brain, and that 10 whole entire years were still in what they now describe as non permanent memory.

It is sort of like this: They now figured out that there is a long term permanent database, a mid term of 10 years, and then what they already knew of as being short term (1 hour some think while others say up to 5 days). What is really amazing is that they found the “pipeline” of brain tissue that connects the mid term to long term memory together. When this was blocked, the last 10 years were completely shut off from being accessible by the brain.

There’s more to the story, as they also discovered threw subject testing that memory is recharged by repetitiveness. Hmmm, we have known for a long time that muscles only remember repetitive tasks when they are done in at least 35 repetitions……..

John