World's First Brain Prosthesis Revealed

New Scientist ^ | 12 March 03 | Duncan Graham-Rowe

[apackof2]

No way

[B-Chan]

Kudos to the author for getting it right. Changes in the structure or chemical balance of the brain may affect the human mind -- but they do not create or generate the human mind. Far from being the "organic computer" that the materialists imagine, the brain is a sort of mind/body interface organ -- tying together the body here in the physical universe with the the mind (spirit) Somewhere Else to make a complete person.

[homeagain balkansvet]

The Butlerian jihad will have real problems with this thing. "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind".

Butler. Smart gal. (Shot in the back. Very sad.)

[AdA$tra]

Resistance is futile.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

this silicon chip implant will perform the same processes as the damaged part of the brain it is replacing.

Note to liberals: Help is on the way!

[YOMO]

This must be of important news for the DNC. Now their entire leadership can get help. If only they had done more research on foot removals from ones mouths.

[VMI70]

"The researchers will stop part of the monkey's hippocampus working..."

"stop" means excise or it's functional equivalent. The folks at PETA are gonna go crazy over this. That is assuming that the article is not one of Onion's best.

[Servant of the Nine]

I'll take two.

So9

[AgentEcho]

Kinda gives this a whole new meaning, huh.

Æ

[Kay Soze]

Good news for Demon-Crats.

Maybe with a new brain they will stop waiting at home for the check and go out and work!

[Redcloak]

Mixed metaphores, 10 yards from the line of scrimmage, still first down.

[RightWhale]

What part of the brain detects BS?

[martin_fierro]

Hippo at GWU campus. <|:)~

[petuniasevan]

Here's my problem with the whole concept:

Don't you have to have working knowledge of an organ to fabricate a facsimile?

They admit that they don't know how the hippocampus encodes information. So they just copied the stimulus/impulse paths.

What if these paths vary normally? What if they alter under medication or stress?

I'm skeptical about this prosthesis.

(If it works I'd be thrilled. My uncle is institutionalized for severe Cerebral Palsy.)

[TheDon]

[Diddley]

Mrked for later reading.

[RightWhale]

Just a guess, but they might be working way too high in the CNS. Lower down things are more mechanical. If they can create a bypass for a severed spinal cord, that would be something.

[Old Professer]

Why did I get this dumb picture of Bill clinton somewhere in Africa giving a lecture to a herd of funny-looking cows?

[savedbygrace]

They would start this in California, wouldn't they?