Hey Steve!  ;-)

I've been following your posts about chips and stuff, and this recent
exchange prompted me to do a little searching on Google:

SA> have chips embedded under their skin that let them send emails 
SA> just by thinking.

GP> Oh, that one needs some elucidation!

GP> I can't believe that they can send an email just by THINKING!

The very notion of communicating via thought interests me greatly.
That some are attempting to accomplish this by augmenting the brain
with chips and electronic circuitry suggests a possible split or 
diverging of paths, where man becomes more dependent on machines
along the first path, and man develops heightened senses or extra-
sensory perception along a second path.  My thoughts along these
lines aren't well-developed to the point where I can articulate 
them without sounding incredibly foolish.  :-)  So... I'll leave it
at that.  However, I want to share with you this list of links 
that I found.  You may be surprised, as I was, by some of the 
developments described on these links:

Monkey Moves Computer Cursor by Thoughts Alone

http://www.wireheading.com/brainstim/thought.html


Quadriplegic fitted with brain sensor ushers in cybernetic age

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/12/05/INDUNCAN05.DTL


The Brain-Computer Interface Project

http://www.sap.info/public/en/interview.php4/page/1/article/Article-2781540e50d2b3c5de/en/articleStatistic


Bioengineering: Spare parts for the brain
http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1841069


Brain prosthesis passes live tissue test

"It proves you can take out a piece of a central brain region - 
a piece with real clinical interest - replace it with a chip, and 
get it to operate as it did before..."

"Theres no reason why this approach couldnt be used to replace
any region of the brain"

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6574


A chip on his brain
www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1448140,00.html


Cyberkinetics' BrainGate(TM) Neural Interface System

"The sensor is a tiny silicone chip about the size of a baby aspirin 
with one hundred electrodes, each thinner than a hair, that detect 
the electrical activity of neurons.  The sensor is implanted on the 
surface of the area of the brain responsible for movement, the 
primary motor cortex. ..."

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/health/edell/031105_he_parabrain_research.html


Cyberkinetics' BrainGate(TM) 

"The System consists of a sensor that is implanted on the motor cortex 
of the brain and a device that analyzes brain signals. ... The signals are
interpreted and translated into cursor movements,... "

http://www.cyberkineticsinc.com/content/medicalproducts/braingate.jsp


Non-Invasive Brain-Computer Interface
http://www.health.state.ny.us/press/releases/2004/wolpaw_release_12-06-2004.htm


Mind Over Machine -  Mental Telephones?
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/ article/0,20967,576464,00.html 


Neural Interfaces at "Better Humans"

http://www.betterhumans.com/Topics/content.aspx?TopicName=Neural%20int
erfaces


Mind Uploading

http://minduploading.org/whatis.html


The Prospect of Mind Uploading

"Mind uploading is a hypothetical and actively pursued technology 
whose purpose is to achieve the transferral of a human individual 
identity into an artificial system via whole brain emulation."

http://minduploading.org/articles/hearn.mind-uploading.html


World Transhumanist Association
http://www.transhumanism.org


Transhumanism By Francis Fukuyama
http://georgeovermeire.nl/transhumanisme.nl/fukuyama.html


Reason: Transhumanism: The Most Dangerous Idea?
http://www.reason.com/rb/rb082504.shtml



    

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