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Nerve Cells Successfully Grown on Silicon
crabpeople writes "Researchers at the University of Calgary have found that nerve cells grown on a microchip can learn and memorize information which can be communicated to the brain. 'We discovered that when we used the chip to stimulate the neurons, their synaptic strength was enhanced,' said Naweed Syed, a neurobiologist at the University of Calgary's faculty of medicine."
Plant human cells in an elevator-controlling unit and you'll have the dumbest movie ever....
Spelling mistakes: My is english spoken not tongue of mother.
Haven't you learned anything on the matrix?
You'll be the reason of extinction!!!
why do I feel like this is the beginning of the end?
Might as well stop studiying now, soon we can download information directly to our brains anyway!
The researches have read some Slashdot posts, and believe that there must be a huge market for this chip. There is clearly a need for it ;-)
"A transistor located on the chip then recorded that conversation between cells."
I'd like to see this transistor...
fud
I'm so creative sometimes I wear an eye patch.
.. memory upgrade implant, specially in the mornings.
:-)
It would also be cool with an encyclopedia or even a few o'reilly books implanted.
Too bad it seems to be a one-way communication only, otherwise a spellchecker implant would be cool too
I, for one, welcome own new grown organic nerve and silicon masters.
Seriously, this is what I have been waiting for,
If I were you I would welcome your new ME overlord.
GENERATION 25: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social exper
Bah, I just use LSD when I want to "feel" or "manipulate" things.. Plus, those chips don't seem cheap or very safe.
....chips
"synaptic strength was enhanced" What the...? I don't recall this term in my functional neurosceince calsses.
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would have a whole new meaning...
More likely it would be used to erase someone's childhood to store hundreds of GB of sex memories.
...but I still think Natural Stupidity will outpace Artificial (or artificially enhanced) Intelligence.
da da dum de dum.
da da dum de dum.
Termihuman III, coming to a cinema near you.
In the year 2250, a small pocket resistance of humans find the means to develop an organic gooker. Using the power of jelly to disable our circuit boards, they start a highly accurate military campaign to overrun the machines...
Tron and Tran, are a simple couple thrown together in this all-action, pistol pumping, explosion-full chase between man and machine. Will their love be enough to conquer the invading humans, or will the humans finally overcome the race they created.
Rated 18 with scenes of sex with hoover connectors and frequent uses of acronyms.
A film by Widget Jones.
When all is said and done, nothing changes...
Ely Lilly release the new Prozac add-on for nervous cpu's
Yeah I could have sworn they presented something at a conference that showed the different signals they were getting. They even rigged the net up to a DOOM like simulator and let the neural net learn to navigate.
Imagine a U.S. President that is simply a marionette made of organic plasma being controlled and manipulated by puppeteers and handlers behind the curtain - stringlessly AND wirelessly.
towards a virtual girlfriend.
then the guy starts to "feel" and "manipulate" things.
:P
I didn't know Asimov wrote THOSE kinds of books
Right now theres a lab room somewhere filled with caged chimpanzees discussing who has to take the first one after witnessing buckets of vasoline being stacked in the corner of the lab the last few nights.
So that's how the "real people personalities" work. Guess the crowd at University of Calgary will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes!
An eye for an eye... leaves the whole world blind.
The last thing I would want is to make it nervous.
Who'll be the first to upload a linux distro into the brain of an actual pinguin.
wouldnt want to slashdot a human....nah there would be no humans no more
The team cultured nerve cells from a snail...
I'm thinking it might be a bit slow :)
RegardselFarto
We'd all go to taco bell or kfc
In soviet russia resturant chooses you!
I haven't lost my mind. I have a backup on tape somewhere.
No sig. Go away.
and just by thinking, you could hack a gibson. or hack gibson.
Or, more likely, we'll be getting sued by the RIAA for memorizing songs.
This is very much an analog computing circuit; now the question is how efficiently you can do A/D-D/A conversion on this scale.
Also, if your silicon starts to chug, will you need a heatsink on your skull to cool it? Body temperature isn't ideal for microcircuitry. Could I take the heatsink off if I'm not thinking about a diffucult problem? Would my AMD coprocessor catch fire if my heatsink were jostled? Would my Intel coprocessor throttle it's clock and make me dumber in the summer?
And would my 60 year old barber still cut my hair if I have a huge hunk of metal clamped to my head?