Fluorescent Green Brains in Mice from Outer Space
Let’s use a “brain-as-a-big-city” metaphor here to try and better understand our Fluorescent Green Brains in Mice from Outer Space friends better. Imagine [...]
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Neural Dust: An Ultrasonic, Low Power Solution for Chronic Brain-Machine Interfaces
University of California, Berkeley researchers put out a paper discussing the possible development of mind-reading “neural dust,” which could be implanted [...]
Somewhere Over the Brainbow
Neuroscientists are creating a connectivity map of the brain to understand where neurons project and which neurons they’re talking to and it’s called a Brainbow [...]
Scientists Squander Knowledge from Various Disciplines in Desperate Hopes to Build Cyborgs
They’ll say it’s for “medical research” but happily cash those checks in the billions. The “Human Brain Project” “Objective: [...]
On Being Conscious to Yourself
Most philosophers who have studied consciousness know that the word derives from Latin, and that the modern usage can be traced to John Locke. But there is an interesting [...]
Smart Dust Could Spy On Your Brain
Intelligent dust particles embedded in the brain could form an entirely new form of brain-machine interface, say engineers The real time monitoring of brain function has [...]