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
Fantastic or Phantastic?
"Die Natur dieser Beduerfnisse, ob sie z.B. dem Magen oder der Phantasie
entspringen, aendert nichts an der Sache."
Phantasie = imagination.
Capital, third sentence. "It is not the point whether the nature of these
needs (which commodities satisfy) spring from the sto
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
Call for papers:
The journal _Historical Materialism: research in critical Marxist
theory_ is aiming to publish a symposium on the theme of 'Marxism and
the Fantastic', and we are looking for papers interrogating this
topic in any fruitful way. We are open to consideration of 'the
fantastic' in p
