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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 09:38 AM EST |
Ha!
Use the concept of "mind hours". The U.S. Army couldn't get a life
time of a mathematician in the early 1950's to create trajectory charts for guns
and missiles so they did the next best thing. They drafted hundreds of newly
graduated mathematicians for two years and put them to work in a New Mexico
firing range.
My high school math teacher was one of them. His 8 to 5 work load was nice but
the pay was low. No KP either.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 09:42 AM EST |
The human mind is good at eventually finding new ways around such long-term
problems. Patenting would kill that stone dead.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Tolerance on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 04:02 PM EST |
"Done" is normally taken to mean "finished". Whether it
includes "started" would be a matter of statutory
interpretation the courts would be comfortable with.
That aside, lawyers are not half so clever with words as
scientists are with things. The coprocessors in question
need not be silicon based; there is ongoing research into
switches and memory based on purine or pyramidine
nucleotides.
Currently these are organised into codons within DNA
strands. The codons are read not as triplets (giving a 64-
character code) but as quads (giving 256 characters, enough
for ASCII). There as also switches taking the place of
transistors. In short, it's entirely feasible to create
computers with organic components which may be synthesised
by the body itself, and integrated into the brain like
normal neurons.
That means the distinction between silicon computers and
CHON brains will vanish. At that point expect the courts to
permit patenting thought.
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Grumpy old man[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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