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Current Stimulation of the Midbrain Nucleus in Pigeons for Avian Flight Control
- spiritplumber 5y agoSo,70 years later, project ORCON in reverse? Sweet.
- tibbydudeza 5y agoI thought it was a joke when I read about in some journal.
- eurasiantiger 5y agoI guess this is a more direct approach than giving them coffee and cigarettes.
- dr_dshiv 5y agoHere is a great article on the forerunner to this neural remote control work: Jose Delgado's "Stimoceiver". https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/tribute-to-jose-delgado-legendary-and-slightly-scary-pioneer-of-mind-control/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/tribute-to-...
- xor99 5y agoThis kind of research really needs to develop/use less stiff and/or non metallic conductive implants. For example organic conductive materials. The immune response to stiff metallic electrodes means that it will never last as a bionic implant for applications.
- robbedpeter 5y agoIt's likely that patents on suitable materials used for neural electrodes will have to expire before they can be more generally used in publicly funded research.
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- 3gg 5y agoI'm not entirely sure I'd fancy a second life as the pigeon in figure (1).
- ionwake 5y agoI think certain research needs to be justified and this falls within that camp