Singularity with a multi-electrode array.

It's pretty much inevitable. However, it is creepy ...and you'd be open to viruses .

I'm gonna start writing a virus to bring it down!

Its only creepy if your religious. And computer viruses wouldnt effect your brain, just the signals that are sent to your brain wich can easily be stopped by wiping the computer clean and reinstalling a backup of your calibrations.

If your "brain" is pretty much a computer system open to the internet then, yes, I'm sure it could be fucked up by some malicious individuals :P. Even if it could be "reformated" as you suggest, you'd temporarily cease to exist :P.

Your thinking wrong. Theres two sides to the array, the computer side that computes your senses and the brain side. The brain is the hardware and the computer side is the software. Viruses dont physically damage hardware, just software. Your desktop gets a critical virus and you can wipe it clean and reinstall your OS. All your hardware is undamaged though.

So if a virus infected this muli-electrode array, we would cut off the pipeline from the computer to the brain, wipe the computer, reinstalled you calibrations, reconnect pipeline. Now all you have is 'memory' of a virus that attacked you and you can recognize it now and defend against it in the future.

Anyways why do you guys seem opposed to this? Its a good thing for the human race.

It can be creepy even if you're not religous, I don't want to live in a world where computers think by themselves and are smarter than Humans.

Hello Terminator.

Terminator: 100% computers

This is made from someone who lived a life. Chances are they would want to help the human race not harm it. But of course we should put proper security measures in place... or maybe not even allow a link to the internet. Let them run around on their own server farm creating their own content.

It can be creepy even if you're not religous, I don't want to live in a world where computers think by themselves and are smarter than Humans. Hello Terminator.

SYG 02 at your service.
Don't forget about The Matrix trilogy

I'm not opposed to it. I just don't think it's all peachy. Back-ups can be infected. Hence why a lot of times it's suggested to keep windows system restore off. So, they're keeping a physical, gooey brain alive? That's little like immortality. Otherwise you're just a bunch of data on storage, which can (as we all know) be corrupted. And you're reliant on people to support and reformat you. Unless that's going to be robots or some shit.

There some confusion going on so let me try and best...

How does your brain work right now? You see something on tv and you 'remember' it. You smell chicken cooking in the oven and you remember and recognize that smell again. This computer only has software on it that digitally recreates those sense your human body had. Then it sends those signals onto wires connected to your brain in the same places where your nerves connected the brain to the rest of your body. So when this brain is "reading" some file, its actually looking at a document and signals are sent through to where your eyes used to be connected to your brain.

Am I making sense?

Ive named the multi-electrode array with a human brain The Singularity Genus (Syg).

Some pros and cons of sygs:
Pros:
They can be used in various applications such as working with game programmers or movie studios doing motion capturing work.
They can work with scientist to understand how our brain works to someday build a real AI without any biological parts.
Without the needs of a body a syg can use its vast computing power and resources to research and cure various human ailments such as aids and cancer.
Some sygs might opt to work as virtual warriors and combat against computer viruses, completely wiping them off the internet.
Sygs could be sent into space for longer trips then a human astronaut could, they could land us on Mars and do research in that harsh environment.

Cons:
Yea its possible there would be rouge sygs that would harm our computer infrastructure. Those that did it would have to be kept in solitary off the internet.
If religion is right and God exist... would we be punished for playing god like this?
Sygs would be taking jobs away from normal humans if they were exceptionally good at making new software/games/cgi movies/etc

list your pros and cons if you want

Your thinking wrong. Theres two sides to the array, the computer side that computes your senses and the brain side. The brain is the hardware and the computer side is the software. Viruses dont physically damage hardware, just software. Your desktop gets a critical virus and you can wipe it clean and reinstall your OS. All your hardware is undamaged though.

Got a link to where one could read about the Array and the whole setup?

Under basic logic and computer knowledge, the array could be compared to a router, as it's essentially translating. Receiving, storing, and accessing data makes the brain dangerously akin to a hard drive, whose data is easily corrupted by malicious software.