Once we join in a network of brain chips we ll think faster and better. Kosko sees the transformation as simply an engineering problem, but he doesn t explain why it s simple or how it would be done. We would gain immortality. Biology was never more than tendency. It was just nature s first quick and dirty way to compute with meat.
Chips are destiny.
Most scientists don t swagger or fool themselves this way. Nor do mathematicians, who are not known for modesty in their claims to firm knowledge about our universe. The ones I ve consulted aren t impressed by Kosko s fuzziness. It s old news in new and misleading packaging. Paul Levinson s enthusiastic espousal of computer use all Internet, all the time, all for the better is a little less annoying but just as shortsighted.