Comments on: Thinking out rather than plugging in http://www.pro-liberi.com/2010/03/02/thinking-out-rather-than-plugging-in/ Looking to the future for our species and showing how Technology will save us if Politics doesn't doom us first Tue, 31 May 2011 11:04:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lord T http://www.pro-liberi.com/2010/03/02/thinking-out-rather-than-plugging-in/comment-page-1/#comment-2000 Lord T Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:59:50 +0000 http://www.pro-liberi.com/2010/03/02/thinking-out-rather-than-plugging-in/#comment-2000 Ivan, Yes that is what I though but it has many dangers. Because of that it is likely that we will develop other methods instead. Should still be possible to give feedback. After all, all of our sensors are outside our brains. More likely to get an interface there than directly into the brain. James, A computer reads the signal generated by the brain to move the arms and then the computer instructs the artifical arm to move. Just like a remote control button sends a signal to the TV to tell it to change channels. Ivan,

Yes that is what I though but it has many dangers. Because of that it is likely that we will develop other methods instead. Should still be possible to give feedback. After all, all of our sensors are outside our brains. More likely to get an interface there than directly into the brain.

James,

A computer reads the signal generated by the brain to move the arms and then the computer instructs the artifical arm to move. Just like a remote control button sends a signal to the TV to tell it to change channels.

]]> By: jameshigham http://www.pro-liberi.com/2010/03/02/thinking-out-rather-than-plugging-in/comment-page-1/#comment-1983 jameshigham Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:23:44 +0000 http://www.pro-liberi.com/2010/03/02/thinking-out-rather-than-plugging-in/#comment-1983 If EEG can, contrary to past expectation, be used to monitor complex hand movements, it might also be used to control a prosthetic arm ... I don't see how this follows at all. One is biodynamic, the other is dead. If EEG can, contrary to past expectation, be used to monitor complex hand movements, it might also be used to control a prosthetic arm …

I don’t see how this follows at all. One is biodynamic, the other is dead.

]]> By: ivan http://www.pro-liberi.com/2010/03/02/thinking-out-rather-than-plugging-in/comment-page-1/#comment-1979 ivan Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:12:59 +0000 http://www.pro-liberi.com/2010/03/02/thinking-out-rather-than-plugging-in/#comment-1979 I'm not sure this is a step forward - and yes, I've always considered direct brain machine interaction was possible. My reason for wondering if it is a step forward is because I also think it would be more advantageous to use the actual nerve impulses to do the controlling - it might also be possible to give feedback that way. There is also the point you make about government misuse of the technology and I don't trust ANY government further than I can throw the lot of them together - they always find the worst use for any technology. I’m not sure this is a step forward – and yes, I’ve always considered direct brain machine interaction was possible.

My reason for wondering if it is a step forward is because I also think it would be more advantageous to use the actual nerve impulses to do the controlling – it might also be possible to give feedback that way.

There is also the point you make about government misuse of the technology and I don’t trust ANY government further than I can throw the lot of them together – they always find the worst use for any technology.

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