Artificial Brains and AI; Merging of Organic and Silicon Chip

Today scientists are growing brain cells of animals inalone. Very cool stuff and the medical implications are
petri dishes and then putting electrodes into themtrue miracles and marvels of science.
and using the brain cells to do tasks based on stimuliAlthough a brain transplant has not been done yet,
and then move the electrical impulses into othereventually a person whose body is worn out may be
electrodes. Scientists and researchers are also usingable to hook themselves up to a machine which will
human and chimpanzees in experiments where byregulate a steady blood flow to the brain and have
the subject thinks a thought and is able to fire anelectrodes and sensors attached for that brain to
electrode to more something else on a computercommunicate with whomever it pleases perhaps thru
screen.the Internet? Some religious folks decry such talk,
This is just the beginning and indeed these scientificalthough they should not be so shocked as usually
endeavors will help people see who are blind via opticscience is about 50 to 100 years behind science
sensors. Allow people who are deaf to hear thrufiction and thus give it another 20 years or so and it
electro-mechanical devices and vibration sensors andwill all be possible you watch. Consider this in 2006.
even amputees move limbs wirelessly by thought