Thread: Human brain and programing

I am interested in research in this area, but there is one thing that I am most interested at this current point in time: the image format that the eye sends to the brain.

Now, I am not interested in what goes on in the brain once the electrical impulses reach the brain that come from the eye...I just interested in analyzing the actual electrical impulses that move through the optic nerve from the eye to the brain, and then interpreting them. They are not anything like digital signals...but they are still electrical signals with a waveform...spikes...troughs...crests...etc.

I would like to analyze these waveforms, interpret them, and try to figure out how the eye sends image data to the brain. If we can figure this out, then we could replicate it...a technology that would be useful to many different things - such as helping those who are now blind to see through a computer-operate eye that sends those same electrical impulses to the brain. (It would not cure blindness in everybody because some people are blind as a result of a problem in the brain, and not in the eye, but it would help out some people).

human brain at all resembles programing

No, not in the slightest. The human brain transmits signals slowly (about 120 m per second) along nerve fibers across relatively large distances, but this occurs asynchronously amongst billions of neurons. All programming of which you speak is linear, non organic, and signals transmit at, roughly, the speed of light.

Human brain != 'programming'

And more importantly do you think we can turn the "brain code" into readable code, then reproduce it?

No, there would be no 'C' equivalent

I'm not to sure on how accurate this, but I did see a show in the science channel where a paralyzed man had a probe in his head which he used to draw a circle on a computer screen.

You should read 'Age of Spiritual Machines' by Ray Kurzweil...whilst powerful scanning techniques and brain-wave detection hardware and experiments exist, they are not approaching turning 'brain code' into readable code. I also saw, on the discovery science channel, where a user was able to play a driving type game simply by 'thinking.' The computer car was connected to a device which measured brain-waves, and based on this input, was able to steer the car left or right.

It is based on the principles of the neural network in the brain.

But, they still ultimately process the network linearly...to establish a programming model which attempts to simulate an asynchronous neural network, such as the human brain, you need to update the entire network as often as the fastest-updating neural, and make the assumption that the entire network is not interrupted whilst you are evaluating the values present amongst all of the neurons. The reality is that the human brain behaves in an asynchronous manner with 'recursive interrupts,' not in a linear fashion, which is why the linear-processing computers today cannot possibly even begin to run a reliable model of the human brain, generate 'brain code' or the like, etc.