At 15/03/02 15:34 -0500, you wrote:
>Chris,
>
>I guess it has long been known that the brain , like other nerve impulses,
>has electronic messages. So, I guess this is " just" a translation of the
>brain's electronic message into an electronic message that the computer
>can read. It is technic
On Pen-l Jim Devine and Ian Murray had this to say:
From: "Devine, James"
> I'm worrying: suppose that they start operating on people,
putting little
> chips in their heads so that they can think to control their
computers.
> What's the neurological equivalent of an MS Windows Blue Screen?
woul
Chris,
I guess this actually is a demonstration of the materiality of ideas, isn't it ?
This is the opposite of the usual moving things with thoughts, like the guy who
claimed to move spoons by thought waves, Yuri what's his name
Charles
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I am toying
In Breakthrough, Monkey Think, Computer Do
By ROBERT LEE HOTZ
TIMES STAFF WRITER
L.A. TIMES/March 14 2002
An experimental brain implant the size of an M&M has allowed a monkey to
control a computer cursor by thought alone, Brown University researchers
announced Wednesday.
It is the latest advan
Chris,
I guess it has long been known that the brain , like other nerve impulses, has
electronic messages. So, I guess this is " just" a translation of the brain's
electronic message into an electronic message that the computer can read. It is
technically very sophisticated, but conceptually
I am toying with the image that consciousness is something that emerges out
of a quantum foam (as it were) of billions of unconscious and
semi-conscious experiences, and that what is regarded as consciousness is
very much shaped by social expectations of what as an individual one should
feel a
