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Vatbrain Biocomputers
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now, as per the page 214 of the same book, the Bioengineering (Biogadgets) specialty covers " Quote:
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07-13-2021, 11:21 AM | #2 |
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Re: Vatbrain Biocomputers
I would go with Biogadgets, as you're making something that's a device, and of which the biological part is only one part of the whole. However, I'd also say that if you were growing the brain tissue from scratch, you'd need Tissue Engineering for that. Thus you might well need both.
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07-13-2021, 12:25 PM | #3 | ||
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Re: Vatbrain Biocomputers
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07-13-2021, 12:56 PM | #4 | |
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Re: Vatbrain Biocomputers
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07-14-2021, 07:18 AM | #5 | |
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Re: Vatbrain Biocomputers
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Where on the scale your setting's vatbrains fall can have big implications for the ethics and prevalence of their use. Example: in my campaign, the Kaa can't make quantum computers, so they use vatbrains instead to solve the hyperspace navigation role. |
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07-14-2021, 10:34 AM | #6 | |
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Re: Vatbrain Biocomputers
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Some such computers retained scraps of memories, etc. and every so often became self-aware. Yes, it was a horror game.
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07-19-2021, 10:52 PM | #7 | |
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Re: Vatbrain Biocomputers
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The way I took it, looking at a vatbrain computer from outside would look mostly like any other mainframe computer, except that there would probably be some plumping to supply nutrients to the neural tissue masses inside the machine. The silicon does the fast math, the tissue does parallel processing and fuzzy logic, more or less.
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07-19-2021, 10:53 PM | #8 | |
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Re: Vatbrain Biocomputers
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07-20-2021, 05:23 AM | #9 |
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Re: Vatbrain Biocomputers
That campaign took a lot of inspiration from Dark Conspiracy.
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07-20-2021, 12:38 PM | #10 | |
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Re: Vatbrain Biocomputers
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The little bits of tissue model requires that a few neurons be able to do *something* better than transistors, and there appears to be nothing. Electronics apparently can already do anything we see in simple nervous systems. It is still possible to claim that about whole brains though, at least for higher animal or human brains. And it tends to match the source material where these things turn up much better, because *of course* stories about these things involve some continuity between human source brains and the resulting "machines" whether the stories are horror or cyborg power fantasy.
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