Comments on: Monkey Brain Signal Controls Robot. http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/29/monkey-brain-signal-controls-robot/ The Neat Side of the Web Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:46:58 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: chch http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/29/monkey-brain-signal-controls-robot/comment-page-1/#comment-94069 chch Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:40:26 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/29/monkey-brain-signal-controls-robot/#comment-94069 They start with the prefrontal cortex - first recording from (and often thereby destroying) the more advanced parts of the brain first. Once the monkey is too dumb to learn complex tasks, they move on to more posterior parts of the brain, like those responsible for object recognition. Finally, once the cortex is mostly destroyed, they start recording from the deeper regions that are usually hard to access. At some point the monkey will lose the ability to swallow its own saliva, or to control its nervous system, at which point they acquire more monkeys. It is a dirty, ugly secret of neuroscience, and the potential benefits are questionable - we can often learn similar things from harming much less advanced species. They start with the prefrontal cortex - first recording from (and often thereby destroying) the more advanced parts of the brain first. Once the monkey is too dumb to learn complex tasks, they move on to more posterior parts of the brain, like those responsible for object recognition. Finally, once the cortex is mostly destroyed, they start recording from the deeper regions that are usually hard to access. At some point the monkey will lose the ability to swallow its own saliva, or to control its nervous system, at which point they acquire more monkeys.

It is a dirty, ugly secret of neuroscience, and the potential benefits are questionable - we can often learn similar things from harming much less advanced species.

]]> By: Aramax http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/29/monkey-brain-signal-controls-robot/comment-page-1/#comment-93480 Aramax Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:53:50 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/29/monkey-brain-signal-controls-robot/#comment-93480 If the monkey is not suffering it can't be that cruel. The cruelest thing you can do to wild life is to separate them from their natural habitat and everybody is doing it all over the globe. It would be great if this kind of technology didn't exist at all but it does... so we better keep informed. My girlfriend sais that they should take criminals instead of helpless monkey ( And they say im nuts ). If the monkey is not suffering it can't be that cruel.

The cruelest thing you can do to wild life is to separate them from their natural habitat and everybody is doing it all over the globe.

It would be great if this kind of technology didn't exist at all but it does... so we better keep informed.

My girlfriend sais that they should take criminals instead of helpless monkey ( And they say im nuts ).

]]> By: johnald http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/29/monkey-brain-signal-controls-robot/comment-page-1/#comment-93344 johnald Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:45:47 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/29/monkey-brain-signal-controls-robot/#comment-93344 actually, thinking about it - this is cruel as f***! actually, thinking about it - this is cruel as f***!

]]> By: johnald http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/29/monkey-brain-signal-controls-robot/comment-page-1/#comment-93343 johnald Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:38:38 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/29/monkey-brain-signal-controls-robot/#comment-93343 yeah i though that. the poor monkey with exposed brain and wires all over, wonder if it lived afterwards... i read Sony bought the rights to somehting like this about a year ago, i guess it cant be exactly the same tho. so perhaps PS4 will be mind controlled :) :s kinda scary , but cool yeah i though that. the poor monkey with exposed brain and wires all over, wonder if it lived afterwards...
i read Sony bought the rights to somehting like this about a year ago, i guess it cant be exactly the same tho. so perhaps PS4 will be mind controlled :) :s kinda scary , but cool

]]> By: ray http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/29/monkey-brain-signal-controls-robot/comment-page-1/#comment-93216 ray Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:44:09 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/29/monkey-brain-signal-controls-robot/#comment-93216 notice how we never see the monkey's head with all its bloody wires protruding from his live brain... Anyway, read the Terminal Man by Michael Chrichton... !!Spoiler!! : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal_Man notice how we never see the monkey's head with all its bloody wires protruding from his live brain...

Anyway, read the Terminal Man by Michael Chrichton...

!!Spoiler!! : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal_Man

]]> By: Ali http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/29/monkey-brain-signal-controls-robot/comment-page-1/#comment-93132 Ali Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:05:12 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/29/monkey-brain-signal-controls-robot/#comment-93132 Oh. My. God. The monkey has realized it can control machines with it's mind! We're doomed! *imagines himself on a beach seeing the statue of liberty head* DAAAAAMN YOU!!!! Oh. My. God. The monkey has realized it can control machines with it's mind! We're doomed!

*imagines himself on a beach seeing the statue of liberty head*

DAAAAAMN YOU!!!!

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