Posted on 03/05/2018 5:46:40 AM PST by BenLurkin
Klas Tybrandt has developed a new conductive material that is as soft as human tissue and can be stretched to twice its length. The material consists of gold coated titanium dioxide nanowires, embedded into silicone rubber. The material is biocompatible – which means it can be in contact with the body without adverse effects – and its conductivity remains stable over time.
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The electrodes are 50 µm in size and are located at a distance of 200 µm from each other. The fabrication procedure allows 32 electrodes to be placed onto a very small surface. The final probe, shown in the photograph, has a width of 3.2 mm and a thickness of 80 µm. The soft microelectrodes have been developed at Linköping University and ETH Zürich, and researchers at New York University and Columbia University have subsequently implanted them in the brain of rats. The researchers were able to collect high-quality neural signals from the freely moving rats for 3 months. The experiments have been subject to ethical review, and have followed the strict regulations that govern animal experiments.
"When the neurons in the brain transmit signals, a voltage is formed that the electrodes detect and transmit onwards through a tiny amplifier. We can also see which electrodes the signals came from, which means that we can estimate the location in the brain where the signals originated. This type of spatiotemporal information is important for future applications. We hope to be able to see, for example, where the signal that causes an epileptic seizure starts, a prerequisite for treating it. Another area of application is brain-machine interfaces, by which future technology and prostheses can be controlled with the aid of neural signals..." says Klas Tybrandt.
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Ahh... Another step on the road to cyborgs.
Maybe, though it will be awhile.
Let’s talk about voltage spikes emitted from brain tissue and picked up by some type of encephalograph. Brain spikes emitted after watching some type of external video, pictures, scenes of sadism, rape, etc. I would be really interested in knowing why that was interesting to the person whose brain emitted those spikes.
Maybe this is a way to identify serial shooters, child and women or men killers. I am sure others forms of “testing” would corroborate the encephalographic spikes.
The day will come when it will be possible to create a brain-machine interface using nano sized devices at hundreds or even millions of locations in the brain and spinal cord.
At that point a form of human immortality will be achieved as a disembodied brain will have I/O with the world without the sense organs of the body.
The uses that such I/O could be put to are mind-boggling.
Keeping a brain alive and well in an artificial environment could actually be done today, but what use would it be without I/O?
Another piece of technology that will be used to invade peoples privacy.
I/O
I/O
So off to work I go.
TV and radio were not good enough. Spam email was not good enough. Cramming every spare pixel of every website and google search with ads was not good enough. Hey! I got an idea. Lets come up with a way to transmit ads directly to the brain 24/7
Will they be able to copy my consciousness and upload it to the VR matrix so i can live in San Junipero circa 1987 forever?
(Netflix “Black Mirror” reference)
Immortality in a Virtual reality matrix along with thousands of others..
In a Peter Watts novel it’s called “Heaven”
In a Black Mirror episode it’s copying ones consciousness and uploading it into a VR cloud with many others.
Sounds like something from the 80s movie, Brainstorm with Chris Walken and Natalie Wood, her last movie.
Is that the male brain version or the female brain version?
“Brain spikes emitted after watching some type of external video, pictures, scenes of sadism, rape, etc. I would be really interested in knowing why that was interesting to the person whose brain emitted those spikes.”
Perhaps they could hook the machine up to YOUR brain so we could all see how ideas of tyranny stimulate you.
You’re advocating the WORST form of tyranny imaginable.
You want the government to have access to people’s MINDS?
And then do what? Force them to watch PORN to see how their minds work?
That would not even be reasonable to do to convicted criminals without consent.
Further, you really need to rethink the idea of who could be trusted with this power. Your idea would empower the government to punish THOUGHT CRIMES, literally. But it would require us all to take the word of our very trustworthy government representatives and intelligence agencies, like the FBI, or as they have been called lately, FIB.
No thanks.
“Brain spikes emitted after watching some type of external video, pictures, scenes of sadism, rape, etc. I would be really interested in knowing why that was interesting to the person whose brain emitted those spikes.”
Perhaps they could hook the machine up to YOUR brain so we could all see how ideas of tyranny stimulate you.
You’re advocating the WORST form of tyranny imaginable.
You want the government to have access to people’s MINDS?
And then do what? Force them to watch PORN to see how their minds work?
That would not even be reasonable to do to convicted criminals without consent.
Further, you really need to rethink the idea of who could be trusted with this power. Your idea would empower the government to punish THOUGHT CRIMES, literally. But it would require us all to take the word of our very trustworthy government representatives and intelligence agencies, like the FBI, or as they have been called lately, FIB.
No thanks.
“Keeping a brain alive and well in an artificial environment could actually be done today, but what use would it be without I/O?”
There isn’t even a cure for dementia. What makes you think the brain can be healthily preserved today without a body?
Ok you can capture the signal (EEGs have been around for a long time!). Can you decode it?
I do wonder if they can find a cure for tinnitus? The continuous sound in my brain, I wonder where it comes from?
Here is actually a considerable amount of work going on trying to use AI systems to decipher the electrical activity of the brain.
There are already drug treatments for some types of tinnitus being tested in clinical trials.
Researchers are also looking at stimulating the vagus nerve which is involved in the transmission of efferent information in our body.
Not surprised!
I know it can be done at a gross level for artificial limb control. But signal deciding at a real communication level with meaningful sand/receive probably still very far away.
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