Re: First step toward uploading?

From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sat Aug 26 2000 - 14:02:20 MDT


Brent Allsop wrote,
> The most fascinating thing to me is this terse comment:
>
> > The group's proposal is to create a tiny device that would emit
> > light to stimulate brain cells and record light from brain cells,
> > analogous to a camera.
>

The device would need to be "tiny" indeed, since the microtubules which connect
brain cells are only wide enough to conduct a single photon.

> Wooow, do brain neurons produce light?

Yes, if you consider a single photon to constitute light.

>And are they sensative
> to real light?

That's what the researchers intend to determine.

--J. R.

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For as goes heroic genius, so goes humankind."
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