animal cyborg
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animal cyborg
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20001111/fob4.asp
"To create the cyborg, Mussa-Ivaldi and his team removed a lamprey's brain and part of its spinal cord and placed them in a refrigerated, oxygen-rich saline solution. Then, they rigged small wires to bring electrical signals from optical sensors mounted on the robot to the disembodied brain's vestibular system, which normally enables the animal to distinguish up from down.
When the robot's sensors detected light, the lamprey's brain interpreted the signals they sent as conveying a certain orientation in the water, the scientists speculate. Electrical impulses that normally would have moved along nerves to the animal's muscles instead traveled along a second set of wires to the robot's wheels.
Depending on the electrodes' placement in the brain tissue, the signals caused the robot to wheel toward or away from the light or to travel in a circle or a spiral. In experiments with more than 40 lamprey brains, approaching the light was the most common response."
crazy and disturbing at the same time.
"To create the cyborg, Mussa-Ivaldi and his team removed a lamprey's brain and part of its spinal cord and placed them in a refrigerated, oxygen-rich saline solution. Then, they rigged small wires to bring electrical signals from optical sensors mounted on the robot to the disembodied brain's vestibular system, which normally enables the animal to distinguish up from down.
When the robot's sensors detected light, the lamprey's brain interpreted the signals they sent as conveying a certain orientation in the water, the scientists speculate. Electrical impulses that normally would have moved along nerves to the animal's muscles instead traveled along a second set of wires to the robot's wheels.
Depending on the electrodes' placement in the brain tissue, the signals caused the robot to wheel toward or away from the light or to travel in a circle or a spiral. In experiments with more than 40 lamprey brains, approaching the light was the most common response."
crazy and disturbing at the same time.
Ghost in the SHell FTW!
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