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re: Scientists reanimate dead pig brains, contemplate repeating on humans
Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:26 am to NYNolaguy1
Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:26 am to NYNolaguy1
No thanks...
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Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:28 am to NYNolaguy1
Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:29 am to NYNolaguy1
quote:
you would have to spend the foreseeable future as a disembodied brain in a bucket, locked away inside your own mind without access to the sense that allow us to experience and interact with the world,” he told The Conversation. “In the best case scenario you would be spending your life with only your own thoughts for company.
Keep my wife out of my bucket and you have a deal.
Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:30 am to TigerinATL
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They've been making a lot of progress connecting technology to our brain and nervous systems. Everything from robot limbs people can control to helping blind people see. If being "trapped" is the root of the ethical dilemma that won't be an issue in a decade or 2.
Came here to post this. Seeing is still pretty rudimentary but it's entirely possible to hear and manipulate objects purely by thought.
I'm at work now and don't want to spend time finding the link but experiments have been done that allowed a person to control a robot arm in an entirely different building just by thinking about it. They watched it on a camera and just ... moved it.
The people doing the test reported that after enough practice it felt no different from using a real arm.
Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:34 am to foshizzle
Soon our phones will be able to read our thoughts
Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:36 am to NYNolaguy1
Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:36 am to NYNolaguy1
I've read this story before. It didn't turn out well.
Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:46 am to NYNolaguy1
This post was edited on 5/7/18 at 9:48 am
Posted on 5/7/18 at 9:55 am to NYNolaguy1
Posted on 5/7/18 at 12:34 pm to NYNolaguy1
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