Posted on 07/09/2015 8:45:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
Two heads are better than one, and three monkey brains can control an avatar better than any single monkey. For the first time, a team has networked the brains of multiple animals to form a living computer that can perform tasks and solve problems.
If human brains could be similarly connected, it might give us superhuman problem-solving abilities, and allow us to communicate abstract thoughts and experiences. "It is really exciting," says Iyad Rahwan at the Masdar Institute in Dubai, UAE, who was not involved in the work. "It will change the way humans cooperate."
The work, published today, is an advance on standard brain-machine interfaces – devices that have enabled people and animals to control machines and prosthetic limbsMovie Camera by thought alone. These tend to work by converting the brain's electrical activity into signals that a computer can interpret.
Miguel Nicolelis at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, and his colleagues wanted to extend the idea by incorporating multiple brains at once. The team connected the brains of three monkeys to a computer that controlled an animated screen image representing a robotic arm, placing electrodes into brain areas involved in movement.
By synchronising their thoughts, the monkeys were able to move the arm to reach a target – at which point the team rewarded them with with juice. Brainet
Then the team made things trickier: each monkey could only control the arm in one dimension, for example. But the monkeys still managed to make the arm reach the target by working together. "They synchronise their brains and they achieve the task by creating a superbrain – a structure that is the combination of three brains," says Nicolelis. He calls the structure a "brainet".
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I am sorry - this is just wrong.
Now I understand the Muzzie interest in beheadings.
What the h*ll could possibly go wrong???
We are the Borg - you will be assimilated.
If they can be connected by wires to a computer they can be connected by wifi. Telepathy will soon be upon us.
No big deal.Four or five monkey brains control Washington right now.
Well there are actually 9... but yeah 5 of them are in control.
> I am sorry - this is just wrong.
Well hell you know why they’re doing it:
# 1
because they can and their sociopathic brains tell them there is nothing wrong with doing this if the grant money is high enough.
# 2
Research for brain stem implants in future infants for tracking, event recording, and compliance purposes in the NWO. Go to vote Republican you get zapped, buy a gun...zapped or fatal, conservative / independent though = instant neuron fry
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