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Combining wireless technology with latest biology breakthrough to create ultimate human-machine intergration.
People always dream of thought control devices but the human brain can emit very weak electrical signals and much of them can't be controlled. So instead of trying to find which area of
brain people are using doing certain task which can be diferent from person to person, maybe we should train the body to create what we needed.
What we need is a bio-friendly wireless microchip implanted inside the body powered by an external source. The area around the chip will be saturated with nerve cells implanted to connect to person's own nerve system. With right amount of stimulation from the chip, the nerve cells will grow, make better connections and establish network directly to a person's brain. After a network of nerve cells is eastablished, we can train the person to try to control the chip. It will just like how a baby learning to use his/her arms and legs. Very soon, it will become natural. Then all kind of possbilities are open.
Cortical Implants
http://www-personal...itzel/cortical.html
I'm led to believe Johnny Ray was a Nicolò of blues guitar -- see article with photo [reensure, Jun 08 2002]
Thought-activated computing
http://www.salon.co...8/11/23feature.html
"The cyberpunk vision of a brain-computer interface" [phoenix, Jun 09 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Moving Thoughts
http://abcnews.go.c...dcontrol020313.html
"Scientists Study Brain Implants to Control PCs, Artificial Limbs" [phoenix, Jun 09 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
A few more related Google links
http://www.google.c...dcontrol020313.html
[phoenix]
Similar Google links...
http://www.google.c...8/11/23feature.html
..., but related more to 'uploading the mind' than the other way around [phoenix]
Professor To Try To 'Control' Wife Via Chip Implant
http://www.ccg.org/...0Chip%20Control.htm
Poor choice of site but it was the first hit for the story I was seeking. [phoenix, Jun 09 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Similar Google links...
http://www.google.c...8/11/23feature.html
..., but related more to 'uploading the mind' than the other way around [phoenix, Jun 09 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Professor To Try To 'Control' Wife Via Chip Implant
http://www.ccg.org/...0Chip%20Control.htm
Poor choice of site but it was the first hit for the story I was seeking. [phoenix, Jun 09 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Professor to wire computer chip into his nervous system
http://www.cnn.com/...ng/12/07/robot.man/
[phoenix, Jun 09 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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Um...wishful thinking...wibni...how does one tell the difference...? |
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Baked. At least in the context in which I interpret the idea. |
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I am hoping to eastblish two communications between the nerve and the chip. Right now, the implanted chip only monitor the activities of the brain cells. Brain cells receives nothing from the chip. To close the loop, you need visual confirmation. There are also procedures that insert needles directly into nerves to control the muscle movement of paralized through electrical signal. Again the procedure is one way, only through long series of exhausting trial and error, the patient can manipulate the muscles to perform simple task of standing up or taking a step forward. |
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By allowing the body to involve in the process of establish connection, a more efficient and natural connection can be found. Consider most of body nerve system are two way, maybe nature have some tricks we don't know. |
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With this kind integration, if sucessful, you can just "feel" it without you ever seeing the action. Plus a lot of attentions are focused on the brain but I feel that any nerve connections shall do the trick making the operation lot easier and safter. |
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Your logic requires that a neuronal stimulation of one electrode to the chip be machine processed and forwarded to other electrodes to eventually form a cortical module capable of functioning with a simple stimulation of the chip by wireless connection; hoping all the while that cortical modules created in this way will function at all.
The brain's neuronal activity registers as electrical discharges that can be measured and amplified -- discharges that are simple potentials and are well understood. Greater mysteries are the way neurons propagate through the matix of our brains and how conciousness plays a part in the usefulness of it all. You're simply hoping that artificially reproducing a nerve function will prove to be useful, just as it would be nice to assume that a compatable nerve tissue graft would assist the host brain in finishing whatever was in its mind to do. |
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(Added links to satisfy the chip -> brain requirement) |
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My theory is that if there are nerve impulses received, the brain will try to properly response to that. Just like patients will eventuality regain feeling and control in their reattached or implanted limbs. New neural cluster will form in the brain to respond to new implants. Since no one have ever tried to implant extra boby parts on a human before, I can't said that for sure. |
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But if you ever seen the pictures of human ear on the back of lab mouse, can you be certain that the mouse have no feeling whatsoever on what is on it back. |
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