27th March 2006, 2:27 PM
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/...chips.html
It is done. This is a project I've heard of some time ago, and it has been accomplished. Some brain cells have been succesfully fused with a computer chip. SOME mind you, not a whole brain dynamically using the chip :D, but it is certainly the first step. Oddly enough, brain cells seem to be somewhat attracted to computer chips and attempt to fuse with the right chip like they would to other neurons.
It is done. This is a project I've heard of some time ago, and it has been accomplished. Some brain cells have been succesfully fused with a computer chip. SOME mind you, not a whole brain dynamically using the chip :D, but it is certainly the first step. Oddly enough, brain cells seem to be somewhat attracted to computer chips and attempt to fuse with the right chip like they would to other neurons.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)