February 2012
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artbrain.org : a rare resource on anything... →
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“I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a...”
– Dr.Kevin Warwick : Scientist, Roboticist, Cyborg
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interesting neuropeople : Kevin Warwick
An interesting roboticist working on the direct communication btw machines and the human nervous system. As part of his Project Cyborg he inserted an RFID tag in his arm to control doors, light switches etc. Then he controlled a robotic arm via some computer interface via this tag . And then he had his wife implant the same chip so that they could have a technologically reinforced or enhanced...
“Neuroscience is the Sistine Chapel of Science”
– J.G.Ballard , Project for a Glossary of the Twentieth Century
Is your brain really necessary? | Science →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
12 December 1980: John Lorber, a British neurologist, claims that some patients are more normal than would be inferred from their brain scans.
“Professor John Lorber has a facility for making doctors sit up and think about hallowed concepts,” writes Adrian Bower, a neuroanatomist at Sheffield University, England, where Lorber holds a research chair in pediatrics. “The...
a crash course on skin sense! →