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Lets for the sake of argument agree that human brains operates in ways similar to neural networks, trained through experiences and pre-programming (things you've learnt through your life time so far and things you were born with). All signals are impulses of some kind that can (or not) affect the state of nodes. I see two possible ways of creating a replica of a state of the brain, you can either train an empty (no previous state) network until it matches a given target or you can rebuild it with exact values and use the "Power On" switch. The first option might take a while. Needs a few generations of AMD's and Intels for that to happen (like the Intel 700 Petaherz N-dimension Core LGA60000 chip). The other option is not really an option either, what would we do? Send in an army of nano-bots with orders to attach themselves to chosen brain cells, check the meter reading and return to base? The interesting hybrid, doesn't deal with the state of the brain on a synapse level, but with how to view the brain through frequency analysis of brain waves. Fourier transformations are one of the few math disciplines I ever found useful (I used it for pattern recognition in images in a project). As I see it, the technological challenge is to scan and analyse the frequencies fast enough to get an "atomic" snapshot, i.e. not getting your left brain half today and you right brain half tomorrow. That consciousness would probably end up insane if inserted into a clone. I might agree that it may not happen in our lifetime, but then, when was man ever to back down from a good technological challenge? You just need to convince somebody that there is a tidy profit to be made in cloning and eternal life Edit: I guess what I am trying to say is, we need to free our minds from traditional thinking that the mind is a computer and not try to replicate it with a computer, rather we should examine the state of mind and figure out how to transform that state of mind.

It is not something limited to young people though, I've more than once experienced little old ladies (wearing expensive looking imitation clothes) in the supermarket with "manners" that made me want to trip them, take their walking stick away, something, seriously Ok, so one thing is not having manners. I guess what ticks me off is rudeness.

Way off-topic

Krezack... are you *really* sure that this belongs here? Edit: Moved to Computer & Console

Sorry to hear that If you don't mind me asking, what kind of enviroment do you live in? Doesn't sound like a healthy place. I am slightly privileged (lucky?), living in am "attractive" neighbourhood, but I am quite familiar (much more than I would like to remember) with the less than attractive parts of human habitats.

Interesting theory. I always imagined memory working like a jpg compression Not having an opinion at the moment on the theory linked to, it is interesting in it's implication if it were true. Then you could actually take a snapshot in time (technology allowing) of a persons consciousness.

The kid was about 9. I'm 15 EDIT: Why? Because I was going to say playing "swords" isn't very normal unless your under 15 or over 40. Heh, tell that to my little brother He is 34 and way into the Medieval Re-enactment thing. Although I think they use halberds and pikes just as much as swords when they fight.

I don't know if anybody really appreciates good manners these days, but I still try to practise it to the best of my abilitity in my daily life (I was raised like that, yes, be nice and polite if there is no reason not to be). Sometimes I get a smile in return which makes it worth it, sometimes no response at all. I supposed that, in many ways I actually assess a persons worth partially based on their manners. That being said, I can be a devil too, taking great pleasure in seeking out persons like the brat Walsingham described and tell them to "Move it!", and if they refuse to, I simply sit down. They will either break a leg, get their sports bags flattened, whatever I don't care. I am 190cm and 105kg, moderately muscular, so I got the physical size and the viciousness to backup my no nonsense attittude most of the time. Funny how they suddenly make a seat available in a hurry when they know that bruises are on the way.

If they sell it to most of the companies on the list, they make just a little short of 150k, not bad. I wonder how they compare a company that releases max 1-2 games a year to say Ubisofts 22 releases? And how are the "anonymous" industry professionals picked. Do you need to be best buddies with gamasutra to do well? I would insist on knowing the methology used before paying a cent for a report.

Taken a bit out of context (why it feels good to eat meat), is still illustrates the line of thought, that giving in to instinctual behaviour gives a certain kind of satisfaction as reward. There is room for experimentation, but we are given a set of rules from which we need to cross a certain threshold in order to deviate from and make decisions that are radically different from "who we are".

Lets see if we could stay on the topic past page one. This thread is not a platform for a personal rants against metaphysical beings >_ Edit: In case somebody is missing a post, the thread got pruned a bit.

Still playing VMBL... My female Malkav 'Malissa' (her outfits are just as wacky as the male malkavs apparantly) just managed to bungle the mission to infiltrate the Metalhead Industries warehouse for Mitnick. Time for a reload. Seriously, using obfuscate, there is *no* excuse for not completing that one

You really need to get away from New Zealand some day I wish I could enjoy the FF games, but my one and only try was the FFVIII demo for PC and frankly, I found it to be a disaster. Hopeless control scheme, characters I couldn't relate to and a protagonist with an attitude problem that made me want to put him over my knee spank him

I liked Waterworld. Even bought the DVD.

Thread pruned a bit already, that was quick. Lets stick to discussing the post and not the poster, shall we?

Now I know where I had seen this guy before... check out the avatar in this user profile http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showuser=20394

http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisse "Nisse"

I suspect Alvin got s cameo in NWN2

Dropping the u is stupid. It's part of a general Americanisation to dumb the language down. Exempli gratia: 'thru'. Heh heh heh. Dropping the 'u' from an increasing number of words may cause some confusion down the line. Just imagine dropping it from words like Mourning, Counting, Route, About, Soul etc. Although (with a 'u') it seems like it is more words derived from french that gets the short end of the ou -> o deal. Ungrateful louts not appreciating all the trouble William the Bastard went through to teach the english proper french. Anyway, I am a fan of british humour. I liked series like The Young Ones, Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf and shows like Benny Hill (Hills Angels might have influenced me a bit) and Monty Python

So... are stylish shoes going to be thrown weapons or melee weapons?

As opposed to... anti-society? I'm not a parent, don't plan on raising any children, don't teach any children (unless you count software developers, and that only on rare occasions). I would just assume that the more knowledge children becomes exposed to, from as many varied sources as possible, the better (provided that their parents offer some guidance to what they find right and wrong and especially the "why" they find things right or wrong). Nothing makes me more happy than independent thinking and a questioning mind. Just a thought, isn't the increasing unattractiveness (violence, bullying etc.) of the public school system a result of more and more parents failing at being parents rather than a failing of the public school system?

Publisher: Sega of America Developer: Sega of America Platform: Xbox 360 Category: Role-Playing Obsidian, is there something you aren't telling us?

And sewers... Lots of running around in sewers shooting rats with your 9mm

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