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avadThank you Tony Walsh for this Amazing article link.
"A 25-year-old quadriplegic sits in a wheelchair with wires coming out of a bottle-cap-size connector stuck in his skull.
The wires run from 100 tiny sensors implanted in his brain and out to a computer. Using just his thoughts, this former high school football player is playing the computer game Pong.
It is part of a breakthrough trial, the first of its kind, with far-reaching implications..."
read this USA Today article via Yahoo.
"The reason it works has to do with a discovery made by neuroscientists in the 1990s. The billions of neurons in each region of the brain work on physical tasks like an orchestra, and each neuron is one instrument.
With an orchestra, if you listen to only a few of the instruments, you could probably pick up what song is being played, but you wouldn't get all its richness and subtlety. Similarly, scientists found that if you can listen to any random group of neurons in a region, you can decipher generally what the region is trying to do - but you wouldn't get the richness and subtlety that might let a person do complex tasks.
The more neurons you can listen to, the more precisely you can pick out the song."
just think....;)
*and here she goes a-singin*....if we are neurons...and we can see/hear/interact with eachother through the internet...and we direct our thoughts and actions collaboratively...;)
(pic above is my artwork 'Suddenly a Childlike Wonder')
"A 25-year-old quadriplegic sits in a wheelchair with wires coming out of a bottle-cap-size connector stuck in his skull.
The wires run from 100 tiny sensors implanted in his brain and out to a computer. Using just his thoughts, this former high school football player is playing the computer game Pong.
It is part of a breakthrough trial, the first of its kind, with far-reaching implications..."
read this USA Today article via Yahoo.
"The reason it works has to do with a discovery made by neuroscientists in the 1990s. The billions of neurons in each region of the brain work on physical tasks like an orchestra, and each neuron is one instrument.
With an orchestra, if you listen to only a few of the instruments, you could probably pick up what song is being played, but you wouldn't get all its richness and subtlety. Similarly, scientists found that if you can listen to any random group of neurons in a region, you can decipher generally what the region is trying to do - but you wouldn't get the richness and subtlety that might let a person do complex tasks.
The more neurons you can listen to, the more precisely you can pick out the song."
just think....;)
*and here she goes a-singin*....if we are neurons...and we can see/hear/interact with eachother through the internet...and we direct our thoughts and actions collaboratively...;)
(pic above is my artwork 'Suddenly a Childlike Wonder')
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Date: 2004-10-13 08:50 pm (UTC)Can you smell that in the air? Ours may yet be a romantic generation, our struggles, victories, joys, and ills all falling into antiquity though the churning tsunami of progress.
This is pretty fucking exciting.
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Date: 2004-10-13 09:29 pm (UTC)May we communicate and collaborate through those multiple wires...
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Date: 2004-10-13 11:07 pm (UTC)Every microcosm is an element of and a potential force in the macrocosm.
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Date: 2004-10-14 07:05 am (UTC)so fascinating.
"Every microcosm is an element of and a potential force in the macrocosm."
love :)
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Date: 2004-10-17 07:16 am (UTC)"If the rat moves left or right as commanded, it feels this burst of happiness," he said. "It follows this sort of cue very accurately. They work only for rewards. They love doing it."
I wish I felt a burst of happiness every time I moved.
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Date: 2004-10-14 05:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-14 07:02 am (UTC)and what a great icon you have! splain?
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Date: 2004-10-14 08:48 am (UTC)one of the *aRt* pieces!!! x0x ~t!
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Date: 2004-10-16 07:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-14 08:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-14 08:47 am (UTC)Like many of my pieces, these are nails hammered into wood. The nail tops are painted with enamels and acrylics...and then resin is poured on each of them drop by drop and then on the whole background as well.Lemme see if I can find a detail of nailheads on angle so you can see how they stick out of the wood..
here:
that's of a piece called Entanglement.
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Date: 2004-10-15 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 10:04 pm (UTC)well, for starters...there are some entries on an old journal that will set the story up to a point:
from that entry click to the next entry and the next. (http://opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=A392439&entry=10042&mode=date.opendiary</a)
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Date: 2004-10-14 04:07 pm (UTC)Peace,
Julie
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Date: 2004-10-14 04:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-14 04:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-14 04:59 pm (UTC)hi avad
Date: 2004-10-16 03:18 am (UTC)Re: hi avad
Date: 2004-10-16 08:39 am (UTC)But,well,
I emailed ya!.:)
Re: hi avad
Date: 2004-10-19 05:35 am (UTC)