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Old 09-19-2005, 01:41 PM   #1
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Dr. Stanley is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He is the ultimate voyeur. He jacks into brains and extracts video. Using cats selected for their sharp vision, in 1999 Garret Stanley and his team recorded signals from a total of 177 cells in the lateral geniculate nucleus - a part of the brain’s thalamus [the thalamus integrates all of the brains sensory input and forms the base of the seven-layered thalamocortical loop with the six layered neocortex] - as they played 16 second digitized (64 by 64 pixels) movies of indoor and outdoor scenes. Using simple mathematical filters, the Stanley and his buddies decoded the signals to generate movies of what the cats actually saw. Though the reconstructed movies lacked color and resolution and could not be recorded in real-time [the experimenters could only record from 10 neurons at a time and thus had to make several different recording runs, showing the same video] they turned out to be amazingly faithful to the original.
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thats really crazy, its all furistic, just think of what they are going to be able to do in our lifetimes in regards to science and health. WE all may be able to live to 100 but i dont know if i want to.
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Imagine this science being able to be used on blind people. Mount a camera in sunglasses, and convert the images backwards into the brain....
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Imagine this science being able to be used on blind people. Mount a camera in sunglasses, and convert the images backwards into the brain....
They've actually been doing that. I saw some crap on Discovery Channel about doing that with blind people.
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so my cat actually thinks? wow i never knew that, judging by the way it acts
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so my cat actually thinks? wow i never knew that, judging by the way it acts
excellent point, I think we should head up a debate team to go to harvard and tackle these guys. They aren't fooling anyone with thieir cat theories.

actually, this really reminds me of the movie The 6th Day, with teh governator.
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