From: Sean Morgan (sean@lucifer.com)
Date: Fri May 09 1997 - 23:17:19 MDT
litenite@game-master.com wrote:
>I heard something exciting on the radio: some Japanese scientists
apparently have
>elaborated a neural interface to cockroaches' brains. They plan on using the
>(remote-controlled?) bugs to inspect places where humans can't go.
>
>Does someone have any more information on this particular case or on neural
interfaces
>in general?
I saved a picture of roboroach at
http://www.lucifer.com/~sean/BT/17.html#roboroach
My favorite quote about this, "They are not very nice insects. They are a
little bit smelly, and there's something about the way they move their
antennae. But they look nicer when you put a little circuit on their backs
and remove their wings."
In general, try Anders's page: http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Individual/Self/
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Sean Morgan (sean@lucifer.com) | "If instead we were computer-simulated beings
| in a computer-simulated universe you wouldn't
http://www.lucifer.com/~sean/ | be able to tell -- except that nuclear physics
| would show round-off errors not unlike the
| uncertainty principle." Uh, wait a minute ...
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