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To: bentway who wrote (378021)	4/13/2008 11:44:53 AM
From: i-node	of 1575981

However difficult the practicalities, there’s no reason in principle why a future generation of neural prostheticists couldn’t pick up where nature left off, incorporating Google-like master maps into neural implants. This in turn would allow us to search our own memories — not just those on the Web — with something like the efficiency and reliability of a computer search engine. Ha. To suggest that Google is somehow a "more efficient" search engine than the human mind is insane. Not to take anything away from Google, which is remarkable. But Google operates on brute force and lacks anything remotely approaching the kind of associative search capabilities, which is essential for truly efficient search (the closest thing Google has is the ability to recognize mis-typed words, which once again, it a brute-force technique based on quantified usage data). When Google can recognize a smell or song and associate it with a time or place, then you can claim it is at least headed in a direction which gives the mind its search efficiency -- although, that would still be far from "more efficient". Then, they can start working on a workable interface. Funny.

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