Electrical brain signals can be programmed into robots

Fire Fly · Post by **Fire Fly** » 2007-02-25 01:10am

I'm not sure how well people know how far neuroscience has come but below is a video link that has some really profound implications about our future and our past. I try to stay up to date with big ideas but this one really boggled my mind. See for yourselves.

Link

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2007-02-25 01:16am

Resistance is futile.

Fire Fly · Post by **Fire Fly** » 2007-02-25 01:24am

If anyone wants to see the whole episode rather than just that one clip, go here:

Link

The other parts of the episode are to the right scroll down menu.

Feil · Post by **Feil** » 2007-02-25 01:31am

Oh gods. This is so intensely cool. Oh, dear god.

Winston Blake · Post by **Winston Blake** » 2007-02-25 03:13am

I'm pretty sure that that 'monkey-joystick' experiment is a few years old and has been mentioned here before. The Delgado bull experiment is also well-known. The singularity-wanking in this documentary is a bit annoying - all the sensationalistic mention of 'mind' and 'gods' feels more like a New Age publication than a scientific documentary. Definitely nice to see some video of these various experiments though.

Fire Fly · Post by **Fire Fly** » 2007-02-25 03:29am

Winston Blake wrote:I'm pretty sure that that 'monkey-joystick' experiment is a few years old and has been mentioned here before. The Delgado bull experiment is also well-known. The singularity-wanking in this documentary is a bit annoying - all the sensationalistic mention of 'mind' and 'gods' feels more like a New Age publication than a scientific documentary. Definitely nice to see some video of these various experiments though.

Hmm, how did I miss this? Anyways, yes, the "documentary" had some really annoying overtones of mad scientist and playing-god-wank. Nonetheless, it was really an eye opener, for me at least.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2007-02-25 07:44am

Hmm... monkeys controling machines by thought. If someone had wrote a scifi novel about this he would have been laught at. This is truth being stranger than fiction once again.

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2007-02-25 12:37pm

The strange part, is that all thorugh the first clop, I'm sitting there going "That's the music from Forbidden Planet."

Either way, though, that's something interesting to see, especially when the monkey stopped moving it's arm, but kept playing the game.

HSRTG · Post by **HSRTG** » 2007-02-25 03:55pm

"Acceptable limits of science". Christ, I've been playing Alpha Centauri too much, I thought of Miriam immediately.