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goingincirclez writes "Cnet has an article about the development of a "Neuro-chip". This can be implanted in the brain and is currently being researched for medical uses. The article makes a brief mention the composition of pictures on a computer based on signlas receieved from the brain. Couple this development with the information in this Wired article from last October, and I can't help but wonder how far we are from literally being able to record dreams and thoughts?" On a similar note there are stories about a temperature-sensing implantable microchip and a scientist who claims he can tell whether you've committed a crime.
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Bush is sure to buy it for "Homeland Security" and "Total Information Awareness" !!! Constitution and Bill of Rights fed into the Enron Paper Shredder !!!
Imagine that all you would have to do is hook a little matrix type needle in your head and you could compete based on pure reflexes and just how fast your brain can work, and not on a malfunctioning optical mouse.
Geez, when I think of it like that, there could be all sorts of implications for something like this from being a lie detector to measureing IQ.
its that only shaved psychic genetic freaks that float in a comatose state in a vat underground can tell me who has committed a crime.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
...how far we are from literally being able to record dreams and thoughts?
What is that?
It's the Matrix.
If (and I'm stressing that if) this becomes "widely accepted", couldn't one simply refuse to allow oneself to be tested, as it would really just be another form of self incrimination, which we are protected from by the 5th Amendment? After all, each of these little "brain spikes" would be like the defendant muttering "I did it" each time he was shown a card with evidence on it.
So reading one's mind is still _far_ in the future. That said, it's still a very cool technology which will allow for more information on how the brain works, and hopefully some serious medical advances.
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The Orgasmatron. This, and a replacement for addictive drugs, are the most important functions of cybernetics. And fortunately, they are pretty easy to implement, as opposed to mind transfers or the like.
When I can run a rollover cable from my head into the console port of network devices then start the neurological version of tera term I'll be in nirvana.
You know, I'm glad there are scientists out there who can tell whether I've committed a crime. Because with all these bizarre and incomprehensible laws out there, I sure as heck don't know when I have. Perhaps if I get one of these chip things it will tell me when my code touches a patented technology or happens to break some loser's copy-protection technology from the mid-80s.
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Is approaching faster then we think, we shouldn't fear changes, we should embrace them. I think we all know what this annoucement means, we've known this was coming for a long time. However, the rest of the world did not. Most people are completely ignorant to changes like this, they live in there own little world, and when that world is threatened, they turn to violence and religionism. They try to stop scientific progress.
The long term applications are many, but so are the negative uses. I think we should establish exactly what it means to be human, and concentrate on preserving it. Is it our DNA? No. Is it in our appearence? Again, No. Our Limitations? No. So what is the essence of being human?
I believe, that, in the future, we will change our DNA, enhance ourselves with technology, but not so much that we don't resemble humans any more in form. What is really important, is we preserve that spark that is humanity. Our ambitions, ethics, our yearning for knowledge, Our many differences...
-A Sixteen Year Old High School Student.
I find myself wondering if advances like this could lead us to ways to increase the percentage of our brain that we use. I believe, and I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, that we use somewhere around 10% of our brain. Imagine if a few microchips and such could elevate that to 25%.
With laws like the U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act and the DMCA, hasn't pretty much everyone broken the law now? It hardly takes a scientists to tell whether someone's a criminal these days. Hell, it's been true for decades that the tax code is so fiendishly complex that no one can understand it, let alone comply with it fully. And if all else fails, there's always the speed limit laws...
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
This new chip might well be implantable in the brain. But see this comment from the chip's inventor's press release: "The cell tissue is not damaged in this process and can be kept alive over a period of several weeks."
And as we all know, everything you can think of will be done! What can YOU think of?
*shudder*
If there is one lesson we can learn from history, it is that we dont learn from history ~ dont know whose quote
Imagine neurochip VR rigs. This could bring us into a new era of neuromancer style enhancements.
One of the big problems posed by VR and AR(augmented reality) was that display devices were always complicated, expensive, and head mounted binocular displays were absolutely foul to use - I have used them enough to say I think they are awful. So far desktop VR has the market share because of these factors.
I really could see some fantastic AR applications - like a doctor seeing body schematics overlaid when operating - meanwhile all vital signs of the patient are displayed in another corner.
I wont continue with all the applications - as I am sure we already have a few billion.
I wonder where Prof. Warwick is in all this - its really his realm...
Anyway - I will be buying one once they are available...
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Now what REALLY matters is the interface. It's not much good to have a computer wired to your cortex is all you can do is type on your brain's command line.
What will make this take off is a thought-processor. An interface device that allows the computer to read your mind. The real challange will be in signal filtering; I don't want to speak for anyone else, but I think about a lot of random crap during the day. How to distinguish legitimate commands from my daydreaming about travel or movies or p0rn?
Whoever invents this will make Einstein look like a small time celebrity.
Who in their right mind would get a chip implanted in their body? With technology advancing as fast as it does, you would be outdated in a couple of years! A better Idea would be a port that can be easily accessed that can support future upgrades without surgery.
Sound waves should be free!
here's what google thinks about such classic lie detectors.
My guess is that in 20 years this chip will turn out to be a hoax tool that had people scentenced for nothing. I say drop it.
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...makes a brief mention the composition of pictures on a computer based on signlas receieved from the brain.
No more sneaking away to watch my pr0n! =P
to The Matrix :)
Seriously though , as science gets better and better at capturing our thoughts and dreams the applications for such technology are limitless. Imagine playing a video game that could adapt to your thoughts.
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I believe Kevin Reading at the University of Warwick started with a similar chip. While this was perceived by many to be a publicity stunt, others pointed out that it could be the first step towards improved quality prosthetics.
My understanding is that this chip has recently been upgraded, such that he bcan not only turn on the light in his study, but can also use this to control his TV. The main purpose though is to allow him to send neural messages.
Of course, I personally am critical of this device. Parts of it are trivial, and it's a debasement of science, but the ability to fire lasers out of his eyes sounds downrightr dangerous, even if these are only low power beams. They could still be used to blind someone.
I don't care about a working computer in my brain. I just want working Ethernet out of my head and just upgrade the machinery outside of my head.
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I didn't know that subjecting yourself to mental control and monitoring was cyberpunk. Geez, I guess it's time for us to wake up and stop being so anarchist!
Why bother.
I just hope when I get a PDA implanted in my brain that it isn't running windows.
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"I can't help but wonder how far we are from literally being able to record dreams and thoughts
Ok, I'm on it. You document the protocols: I'll record the dreams. Deal?
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Is that where you take the brain out, dipp it in ink and then roll it across a piece of paper?
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...surely anyone who watched Red Dwarf can see the inherent failings of a quantitiative method of detecting guilt.
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Like almost all lie detector success stories the subject thinks the lie detector is working and is tricked into confessing. Show me real double blind experimentation that shows this thing works, otherwise this is just a high-tech diving rod.
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If I understood the article, it doesn't mention composition of images, as in creating an actual picture on the computer, but rather visualizing the electric impulses as colored images on the computer. In that case, translation between signals and the actual data would still be out of reach until more is known about how the brain functions. About the crime detection through brain activity spikes, I would like to know how sure they are of the correspondence between those spikes and knowledge of something, and how likely it is to score false positives, of people who haven't committed the crime but react to the evidence, for instance because the objects may mean something to them, unrelated to the crime.
If I had a chip in my brain that allowed people to see what I'm thinking, there should be a law stating women aren't allowed within 20 feet of the monitoring equipment.
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One of the main problems here might be that pure information is useless for your brain. In order to learn, you have to combine facts with feelings (or other things you know that are already connected with emotions).
But say, if the chip could connect the act of remembering the provided information with positive feelings...
On a similar note there are stories about a temperature-sensing implantable microchip...
Yeah, I saw one at Rite Aid just the other day. It's called a digital thermometer and you implant it for 30 seconds - lo and behold it tells you your body temperature. Why would physically (ie: surgically) implanting a device be of any greater benefit?
Great! So when will we finally have PPOR's?
I don't recall the article saying anything about 'petty' or 'nonpetty' crimes...it just says crime.
Time to dust off my copy of Michael Crichton's "The Terminal Man". Or maybe score a copy of the 1974 movie with George Segal.
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I've got plenty of credits and now with these neuro-interfaces I can start building pleasure domes. Thanks!
can't help but wonder how far we are from literally being able to record dreams and thoughts?
If you read material on brain research, you'll quickly come to the realize that we have no idea at all how the brain works. The theories are widely varying and contradictory. The chip in this story is a hack, like shocking a dead frog and watching its muscles twitch. You can do it without any kind of clue, but going from there to a full understanding of things is a gargantuan leap.
The prohibitive cost of a sub-cranial interface could always be reconciled by having banner popups in your field of vision.
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We DO have priorities. Implantable neurochips are WAAAAAAY cooler than space ships.
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I already have a chip in my head.. one night I was walking home.. and a.. bright light, yeah a bright light was cast on me.. a huge shape then hovered over me.. it must have been 50.. no 100.. maybe 400 meters.. well at least 800 meters across.. it didn't make any noise...
errr..
ahem... sorry, my tinfoil had was slightly skewed. All better.
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Does this mean videos would leak on the net like the Pam & Tommy Lee video? Just what do they dream about? What does Britney Spears dream about? Or Ozzy Ozbourne? On second thought... I don't want to know.
To Quote a section of the Yahoo article:
From a scientific perspective, we can definitively say that brain fingerprinting could have substantial benefits in identifying terrorists or in exonerating people accused of being terrorists," Farwell said"
Sounds like a definite maybe?
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I can see a whole new era of virii and *hacking* people over clocking their brains ETC.
Hmmm...maybe a virus that causes you to speak what ever the author has programmed.
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Guess this really gives new meaing to the Billy G. Borg Icon.
What if a kid is thinking about porn and soem computer neuro-chip creates a picture of what he's thinking about? Would it be a crime for him to look at the pictures he himself created? Would the police try to use these chips to monitor your activities? Would an employer get sued for sexual harassement for picturing his secretary nude?
This reminds a lot of 'Forbidden Planet' were an entire race of beings is wiped out by their own subconcious thoughts. Some things in the mind should stay in the mind.
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
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Really let's think about it. If we can record our dreams and thoughts, especially for those of us that do our best writing in our head and can never seem to get it on paper, it could be a useful tool. What about those that are deaf and blind? A way that would have the ability to reconnect the broken links. The possiblities are endless. It's not about creating super human machines; or making big brother. It's taking science and and medicine a step further. A way to help build new and better interpersonal commuinications for those that have trouble with this.
NO i don't mean the Mega Corporation headed by Billy Gates... I mean the implantable chips William Gibson wrote about in the Neuromancer. I liked how he made them almost more fashion than functional.. and many times both.
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The problem here is that most of humanity still needs to have a BRAIN implanted before they can start thinking about brain enhancing chips.
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That's Kevin *Warwick* of the University of *Reading* &^)
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My crime is that of curiosity.
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And to answer the unspoken question: Can FPGA's be used in your brain? I say this: Get Real. Current FPGA technology has no possible application. Maybe in 5 or 10 years, when we have conquered the leakage problem, and have developed fuel cells that run on glucose. But I don't see it, since an ASIC dedicated to brain interface functions will be a far superior solution. FPGA's may evolve into a future computing fabric, so they may have useful applications in external hardware, but it will be a very distant descendent of FPGA's that are finally used for in-body implants.
Thats all great, but when can start using my lazy ex navy dolphin to get this leaky 80 gigs of Farmacom data out of my head?
Yu are all very stupid to want human created electronics right next to your brain.....
Seriously..at least get your upgrades from the original manufacturer.....
Knowing this crowd, if you actually had implantable computer chips it wouldn't be long before you would see the following: 1. Somebody running linux and a webserver from their brain. "Pass me the tylenol, my heads' been slashdotted!" 2. DRM the hard way... your vision blanks out whenever you see material you haven't purchased. 3. A beowulf cluster of human brains... of course if you did this in your average marketing department you still wouldn't end up with much....
At a press conference today, the RIAA announced that it is happy to hear about the development of this technology. The RIAA plans to contribute funding to the development of brain implants that can recognize whenever you hear, see, or even think about any copyrighted material. "In order to fund this project through to completion", said Hillary Rosen, "we will need to raise the prices of CD's. But not to worry. This price increase is only temporary."
The MPAA did not return our calls prior to press time, but it is widely anticipated that the MPAA will also be creaming their jeans over this news.
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But then where would we store the penguins???
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What will make this take off is a thought-processor
I was thinking just the opposite, what would really do it for me is storage. I want a chip to monitor and record all my memories and allow me to access them. I'll keep my brain for doing all the thinking.
Think how amazing it would be to have perfect photographic memory. You could learn all languages and be the world's expert in all academic subjects. It wouldn't automatically make you more creative, but you would be great in science because you'd be so good at pattern recognition.
Of course storage cpacity of the human brain is a long, long way off. Just think of all the multimedia we recieve and record in real time every minute of our lives. And all that gets stuffed into our little skulls for storage. Sure we forget a lot, but the amount we retain is blows awy current computer storage capacity.
Yeah, maybe someday processors will be able to SIMULATE human though, but I think the real goal should be a human brain with compuer storage.
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What if they show you pictures of a crime scene and you had seen something very simmilar, years earlier? Would your brain not spike instant recognition, like when you see someone you swear you know and it turns out not to be them. And how can they tell the difference between a spike of recognition and a spike of fear or repulsion, I would be rather repulsed if someone described a murder to me, accompanied with pictures.
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There's some thought out there that our basic sentience may have its source all the way down to theoretical quantum effects in the structures of the brain. The tiny effects are then amplified into macroscopic results via chaos theory (butterfiles affecting the weather and all that). The macroscopic results are, of course, all the annoying, pig ignorant and stupid things people do every day.
This is sheer theory, but it is discussed in many places. There's a decent book on it: The Quantum Brain by Jeffrey Satinover. A controversial subject, but interesting. Not sure I buy it but I remain open minded.
Regardless of the source, these learning and adaptive processes inside our little brains are dense and difficult to fathom, but we might not have to *completely* understand them. If these chips can provide an interface that is at least in the general ballpark of what the brain wants to deal with, the adaptability of of our brains may rise to the occasion and optimize the link for us.
There may not be such a thing as a standard chip interface. Each one may have to be tuned and programmed for the individual user. People with highly adaptive brains may get a discount because the chip vendor doesn't have to do as much work. ;-)
If we can make this work, we can all be like John Doe over on Fox and have mountains of knowledge at our mental fingertips. Maybe that's a good thing.
Of course, the information is only as good as it is. [CLICHE]Garbage in produces garbage out.[/CLICHE] You could raise a group of people in isolation and download a complete alternate history to their infomation chips.
Then again many people today believe alternate versions of history through which they have actually *lived*, so we don't need chips to create legions of deluded ideologues. ;-) We seem to have that ability built into us. Maybe it's just quantum weirdness...
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Brain fingerprinting works by measuring and analyzing split-second spikes in electrical activity in the brain when it responds to something it recognizes. ...if a suspected murderer was shown a detail of the crime scene that only he would know, his brain would involuntarily register that knowledge. ... A person who had never seen that crime scene would show no reaction.
So the detail is blood in a clawfoot tub. Maybe you have a clawfoot tub? Maybe you watched a dozen different movies with blood/tub scenes. Maybe you have the same exact Teledyne Waterpic that the murder victim has hanging in his shower. You could recognize anything for any number of reasons. Not only that, but your memory changes over time. After 23 years that guy could have been imagining innocence scenarios for so long it looked to the scanner like he was innocent.
Sorry, I don't buy it at all.
Operator, give me the number for 911!
and a scientist who claims he can tell whether you've committed a crime.
Hah. I can tell if you've comitted a crime.
You have.
...I had to reboot my brain.
My former undergrad prof, Dr. John Donoghue at Brown University, is at the cutting edge of research into neural implantable interfaces.
Monkeys Demonstrate Thought-Controlled Computing
Monkeybrain Joysticks Excerpts:
A rhesus macaque monkey at a Brown University laboratory can move a cursor on a computer screen just by thinking about it - playing a pinball game in which every time a red target dot pops up, the monkey moves a cursor to meet the target quickly and accurately. The monkey plays the game mentally, controlling where it wants the cursor to go by thinking.
The primary research Nature article is Connecting cortex to machines: recent advances in brain interfaces
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The Infineon chip doesn't connect to the brain. You put tiny slices of brain matter (neurons) in the chip (in a suspension inside the chip) and can then run current through those slices. No direct brain connection at all. And of course, those signals through the neurons on the chip can be recorded and put on screen...but no "recording of signals from the brain"...dunno where he even got that from. Must be on crack.
Still, it's a cool development; as the article says, we can now do better research over a longer period of time, for a better picture of how neurons work.
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Or chips in two people's brains (one monitoring input and one controlling output) so that one of the people is basically experiencing and controlling the other body. I could see a lot of market for THAT for government, celebrities, and big business...want to go somewhere but you don't want to have to be followed by bodygards? Use a puppet body so no matter what happens to the body, you're still safe at home.
Remote control of another person's body just seems...creepy. It would be a whole new way of "selling your body" that is probably worse than the current method (i.e. prostitution).
On the other hand, it would be the holy grail of women seeking a way to make men understand what childbirth is really like. ;)
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You don't know that - the OP might mean "get your upgrades from Nature, and the evolutionary process". Less likely admittedly, but actually a good point. ;)
Both of the articles discuss observing only electrical activity. While useful, it is analogous to an EKG, just a graph of currents that can tell us the heart rate yet gives us little functional info beyond that. It can't tell you what the blood pressure is, or what the quality or quantity of the blood components is. The devices described are only a little more invasive than a device already in use to diagnose certain brain abnormalities: the electroencephalograph (EEG). It may diagnose epilepsy and sometimes causes of dementia, can suggest the occasional tumor and can tell us a person is brain dead. That's about it. It certainly doesn't tell the world what you're thinking, your sexual preference, or your illicit file-sharing habits.
The article on brain fingerprinting makes clear (at least to me) that the machine is of the same concept as a lie-detector test, though perhaps more advanced and reliable. IMHO, the test is not self-incriminating any more than that damning fingerprint you accidentally left at the crime scene.
About the neuro-chip...
This is definitely an advancement in imaging, but as far as making something useful out of the "pictures" that it produces, we're still a long way off.
Henry Abarbanel at UCSD has been doing research on lobster ganglions and crayfish tails and has found that most of the signaling between the brain and the body that actually contains information and feedback is nonlinear and dynamic. So, to look at what areas of the brain are doing what will involve figuring out how that nonlinear, dynamic, chaotic signaling is happening, and then figuring out how the brain interprets it.
So, if you're thinking that we're not far off from seeing people's dreams, think about this: this chip just lets you see what neurons are active. That's the equivalent of watching having a movie of the transistors in a CPU, and trying to figure out the linux process scheduling algorithm. But its more complex than that, because linux is not nonlinear chaotic data. (well, not usually)
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Can you say "A Clockwork Orange"?
I can see it now, the legions of MS controled consumers chanting and worshipping Gates.
Man 1: I installed the newest service pack, and I can't use my left hand.
Man 2: Yep, its obsolete. You have to upgrade your hand to MS "Hand"
Wow...one of the few Rand quotes I can back 100%. Actually Frank Zappa illustrated this predicament in a much more entertaining way in his rock opera Joe's Garage. Universal criminality. The Central Scrutinizer. Illegal Rock N' Roll. Appliantology. Plooking. It's a hoot.
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Orgasm at the touch of a button... too bad they don't say anything about whether it works for men too.
So what do you do when serial/parallel/PS2/USB ports get obsolete? Do you continue to have them and add another port to the back of your head? Will your head eventually look like the back of my 'puter? Would it be cool or lame to have all those ports? Yeah man check out this cool retro AT keyboard connector I got implanted into my forehead last week. I type and words come out my mouth!
It's more likely that interpreting the
signals externally would be a better solution.
Nothing medical science does is ever better than
what is natural. I know this, I've seen this,
and so have you.
Watch them rebuild a person's jaw. Jagged
piece of boen are shimmed in. Eventually,
it will look normal but underneath it really isn't. So you go to get wetwired with a
nifty piece of molded sand. The port is
wide open on the back of your head. You decide
to visit the ocean and take a swim. Careful,
that salt water may have some crazy effects
on your new 486 dx brain chip controler port.
I'll wait on a solution from Motorola or IBM.
Screw having 'Intel inside'(tm) stamped
on my head. I bet you get the complimentary
barcode on the back. Wait they have
microwave transmitters now right? Gilette
purchased a bunch and Matel or somebody.
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No, not yet. Nevertheless I am still skeptical in regards to the real purpose behind this research. We should not forget what the Max Planck Institute has earlier stood for:
"Ironically, the three Kaiser-Wilhelm institutes that were beneficiaries of Rockefeller largesse were to eventually play important roles in the development, implementation and exploitation of the racial programs of the Third Reich including murderous experiments and the exploitation of the dead. Kaiser-Wilhelm scientists joined with the Nazi state in pursuit of the goal of improving the people's health (Volksgesundheit), the major emphasis being on eugenic and racial purification. The resulting collaboration between science and the Nazi state not only legitimized the policies and programs of the Hitler regime it resulted in the exploitation and mutilation and murder of untold thousands of innocent victims by physicians and scientists associated with some of the world's leading universities and research institutes. The participation of scientists associated with the Kaiser-Wilhelm Society enhanced the credibility of the Nazi state's program of scientific terror and murder."
All I can say to this is 'Wow' I mean not only exciting but scary, and way cool. I've always wanted to run my computer by thought waves, it would be much faster, I mean, we've finally gotten to the point that my WPM isn't faster than the computer, and now it doesn't even keep up with it, at least if it were thought-fast, I'd have a chance...
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It was going through the problem of how your immune system attacks most neural implants and methods for getting around this. You end up with "fuzzy" implants that don't look anything like science fiction stories typically portray them. They are still having problems with electrical signals because of the fuzziness. Still it was a very interesting article and suggested that these things will work different than we may have expected.
I'm just curious about that... It's bad enough that we gat our "signlas" crossed all on our own, what's gonna happen when we're all running a chip with some Microsoft product?
Blue screens of death are truly blue screens of DEATH. If you forget one thing, you forget everything. Bloat takes over all that unused brain matter.
If you replace body parts more than five times you have to buy another brain unless you pirate a corporate brain. Microsoft owns your soul and that may change at any time at their option.
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Keep this script in your head for when stoped by the police in the UK.
Police: I am arresting you for XYZ. You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you do not mention now, anything you later rely on in court. Anything you do say will be given in evidence
You: Exactly what have I been stopped for and how serious is this?
Police: You are being arrested for XYZ, you will be taken to the station and XXXX, you could face YYYY, you are in deep shit sunshine. (they will try to make you nervous)
[Police will then start asking questions]
You: Based on what you have just told me and how serious this is, I belive I shouldn't say anything untill I have spoken to a lawyer
By saying this (getting the copper to say you are in trouble and its serious) and then saying you are sufficiently worried to need legal representation, the police/courts will have a VERY difficult task in being able in infer anything from your silence.
It'll give you a bit of time to see a lawyer and think up excuses!
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serial experiments lain is another amazing anime that deals with very similar issues. the series' creators ask us to imagine what reality would be like if the real world and the "wired" world became connected, with no hardware interface required. Mind blowing to say the least.
The Neurochip does not have anything to do with the article about sensing criminals.
Let us see... first of all the neurochip is based on technology developed in caltech 5-10 years ago. What does it do? It allows single (or a small number of) neurons to connect to the chip, so that their signals can be accurately measured. Now, everyone, remember how many neurons there are in the brain. Alright? Measuring a bunch of neurons does not help a lot really. It does not have anything to do with 'reading your mind'. Especially when the part of the mind that is being 'read' is only one part in a billion. So, why is the neurochip important? Because it allows to measure and send signals to neurons without using electrodes. In fact, instead of putting an electrode in the brain, you take a slice of the brain and put it in the chip. They used SLUG BRAINS, for gods sake. This is not an implantable chip! It is the reverse! It is about studying neurons in an isolated environment.
The temperature-reading implantable chip is basically just a digital thermometer with a radio! It is a device for animals! It is an implantable device, but does not have anything to do with the brain.
The guy that did the criminal analysis research used a very well known mechanism whereby there is a particular spike in activity whenever someone sees something that he recognizes. Again, this has nothing to do with implantable devices and especially nothing to do with temperature. It is a short-time-scale electric potential.
This story really really sucks. It presents three completely unrelated links that it somehow glues together. Get a grip!
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