[ExI] A step from humanoid to cyborg

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 10:39:30 UTC 2012


On 15 September 2012 02:24, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

> This is very cool. Original article: http://iopscience.iop.org/**
> 1741-2552/9/5/056012 <http://iopscience.iop.org/1741-2552/9/5/056012>
> http://iopscience.iop.org/**1741-2552/9/5/056012/pdf/1741-**
> 2552_9_5_056012.pdf<http://iopscience.iop.org/1741-2552/9/5/056012/pdf/1741-2552_9_5_056012.pdf>
>
> Not the most advanced control (it is a fairly well-defined and understood
> task with a fairly simple representation), but together with the recent
> reports on Ted Berger's hippocampal prosthetic it is starting to make me
> feel good about the future of neural functional prosthetics. Nice to see
> that the cortical column model of the DMS task holds up. But what we really
> need is a cheaper, easier and safer way of getting stimulation into the
> right spots.
>

One prob is that even, say, on the Italian H+ list resistance to animal
experimentation is growing. So, either we start using humans directly and
contribute to the universe's happiness by sparing innumerable mice and
monkeys, or we risk to be restricted to simulations...

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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