artificial memory

[jrtom]

Wired News: Chips Coming To A Brain Near You

For someone who's deepest personal fears include Alzheimer's disease, this is a very encouraging idea.

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memory test

[(Anonymous)]

Certainly is. you may want to try a memory check up at (http://www.cognitivelabs.com), they have a link to a free memory test, based on work done at stanford and university of cal...

[(Anonymous)]

the url is http://www.cognitivelabs.com. my wife tried it.

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I may check that out.

I should clarify that I'm young enough that I don't expect Alzheimer's any time in the easily foreseeable future, and I have no particular reason to believe that I'm susceptible. It is the nature of Alzheimer's--the loss of memory, and thus of intellectual capacity, and eventually of self--that disturbs me.

By the way, I don't plan on disabling anonymous posting, but I prefer that people sign their comments, so that I know to whom I'm speaking.