What are brain organoids

The question of where you begin and a machine ends is a relatively new one. People are attached by way of a need, and or must, an example is mobile phones. We have become accustomed to having these devices with us. It's hard to imagine sometimes how we ever lived without them. 

Start as we mean to go on, motto is a reference to how memories are formed. The plasticity of our minds are like pathways trodden time and time again, at first, it's difficult to see where you have trodden, but eventually, you see the path and sometimes your senses need to be guided by past actions to be accustomed to new ways of living.   

A question to ask, to understand where the line of enhancement starts and ends, is when we place a machine in our minds does this make us a machine?

To answer this we must start with the idea of, can a machine become human if we put a human-like brain in a machine?

At some point there will be a horizon point. As shown in the picture above.

In the future, there will be those who take technology and those that do not. This will cause a huge divide between people. However, this time it's not just about monism or dualism, we have a new member to which has been here for some time, but not like we are about to see it. This will be the age of tirterionism, a fictitious word the founder has coined to describe the new era, where a hybrid life of new intelligent beings are added to dictate part of our lives. 

There will come a time where humans and machines will meet at an equilibrium if we do not have strict laws in place, and some will say this is intervariable. It will be difficult to tell where it all starts and ends. Nonetheless, the term enhancement is the question that plays on the minds of those who know about neurotechnology, and those who seek to create ethical boundaries, it should be in the minds of us all considering we are the products.

Firstly, what does enhancement mean? What does it mean to you? Try and imagine an example where this is happening within your current world. Then think about how it impacts your life. How do you then add or remove this, and what difficulties may you face if you remove or add this enhancement. 

There are numerous examples of where people have been enhanced, and people have questioned, argued that once enhancement has happened you could not rightfully take it away, as this would be against their human rights. In some opinions enhancement is like pharmaceutical drugs, and should be treated the same. This is why when it comes neurotechnology the question should be asked that to which you would ask yourself when taking a drug, is this enhancement right for me, why do I need it, can it be avoided, and what actions can I take before enhancement such as, exercise, diet, exuberance, positive and negative triggers added and removed. 

This is why when we take something we do not know especially, with the current methods, and legislation surrounding wearable devices, and with providers operating a harvest now, shore now, use later, mindset, the consequences of the actions are 25 to 50 years on the horizon, the knowledge of these actions we take become imperative. It is easy to ignore when it comes to the needs of now, but the needs of the future must be in view.

Harm can come in a combination of factors, which does not have a word. Try and think of a word that means multi harm? I have called mine, harmbolc. A combination of harm, meaning, to hurt or to injure, bolc, to combine two parties. The fact of adding two things together to form something has only a few actions; they repel, combine, with most avoiding the action of how the actions happens which is typically overlooked, known as interstitial observation. Harm in this instance would be not understanding, or mis-understanding. The harm is created by my action of combining the two parts for your ease of understanding or heuristics, to support my cognitive heuristics, but combining of the words for my ease to describe has potentially caused harm due to the lack of knowledge of the meaning of the word I have created. 

An amalgamation of human and machine dawns a new era of gap analysis (interstitial observation). To understand where the machine starts and you end, where the enhancement gave or you just did it yourself, will be the ultimate challenge for future psychologists, and people as a whole. The machine will try and fix itself, but who will be fixing who? 

The final question remains, as we start the ascent to a new age, when does a machine become a human and when does a human become a machine? If we can place a brain in a dish, and now very soon, we may place these “dish brains” in our machines because it costs less to run, is more effective, and efficient. We need to ask ethical questions and we must have answers to them, and is where the conversation should start by us all.

When we think of the definition of a human, and if enhancement of a machine happens with a human brain when does the machine become human?