New Memory Implants Make Large Strides -Brain Chip Implant

[Quinn]

A new brain implant that could potentially solve a number of brain-related problems, ranging anywhere from Alzheimer’s to memory loss.

The research for the brain implant is being headed by Ted Berger from the University of Southern California Los Angeles. A pioneer of his field, Berger earned his Ph.D. in 1976 at the age of 26. From there, though, he parted ways with the thinking of many of his colleagues.

“The idea was that you could solve every brain problem with a drug or surgery,” said Berger to Stephen Handelman from Popular Science. Berger instead chose to look at the brain itself as a source to solve brain-related issues.

After years of research and hard work, Berger and his team of neuroscientists have finally able to create a working chip that could replace neurons in the brain. The chip, however, is by no means able to completely model the brain. So far, the chip simulates roughly 12,000 neurons. This is compared to the billions of neurons that are in the human brain.


Some scientists also argue that Berger’s chip might potentially change a person’s identity. The chip might end up affecting our “thought structure”, changing our personalities. In addition, they may even be able to add memories to our brains that we never had or damage real ones.

http://www.dailytech.com/New+Memory+Implants+Make+Large+Strides/article6817c.htm

:eek:

[Vlootvoogd]

We read from Revelation 13: 12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

Exercise all power before him?
Like a puppet on a string?
As if the second beast is under complete control of the first beast.

There will soon be a time that man is to be controled by computer and a kind of RFID. Man will become a kind of robot?

Acceptance of the mark of the beast might have that meaning.
Therefore it is impossible for those that accept the mark to repent and come to the Lord.
They are under control of satan.

[god is my protector]

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Acceptance of the mark of the beast might have that meaning.
Therefore it is impossible for those that accept the mark to repent and come to the Lord.
They are under control of satan.[/QUOTE]


while of course you didnt hit the nail on the head cause none of us can i must say its all comeing toghether pretty smoothe



pardon spelling guys im on a laptop and dont care to fix it

[J4E]

scary stuff!!!

[Petezzzz]

scary stuff!!!

Is there a link to this article? Or am I missing something here?

[Inprayer]

Hmm some event could make these chips not only acceptable but desirable. They might control behaviour so that a former "believer" or "homophobe" appears to be "cured" of his or her "madness". May Jesus deliver us from this!

[Enoch]

Yeah, I notice these articles leave out any mind control implications.."oh this is so good for you and this can HELP you do blah blah blah"

rolleyes

[Vlootvoogd]

Desire a RFID chip?

Many reasons:
It seems to be very honest: Nobody can fake the system.
Financial Crimes will be ruled out, no more maffia in money.

But much more important:
Today they use RFID chips also for medical treatment.
To measure your blood sugar level.
No need needles anymore for that.
SOME KIND OF BLINDNESS CAN BE OMMITED WITH CHIPS.

Also various musscle ailments can be helped with chips activating the brain.
Etc.
Even they hope to develop chips that can activate the brain to produce your own medicin and to measure your own chemistry to see if you are developing a disease and cure it with the medicin you produce in early stages.

What a blessing such a chip will be!!

Oh, but the consequences!
Tied to the system of the AC.
No more possibility to repent!

But I believe that will only be imminent after rapture.

Have a good sunday with the Lord.

[Quinn]

Deep brain implants show bionic vision promise

Implants buried deep inside the brain may provide the best hope yet for vision-restoring bionic eyes.

Most visual prosthetics rely on implants behind the retina. These stimulate surrounding nerve tissue to generate points of light, called phosphenes, in the mind's eye. Such prosthetics require a detailed map of where phosphenes appear in response to electrical stimulation. Once this map is complete, digital images, captured by a camera, can be converted to electrical pulses that produce multiple points of light, allowing a blind person to "see" simple shapes.

In patients with severe eye trauma, however, there may not be enough surviving retinal neurons to stimulate. Or a patient's retinas may simply have degenerated over time.

An alternative is to place implants directly in the brain, within the visual cortex. But this is a large and complexly folded part of the brain, making access and mapping of the visual field a serious challenge.

Brain access
Now John Pezaris and colleague R. Clay Reid, both at Harvard Medical School in Boston, US, have shown that phosphenes can be produced by stimulating the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) – an area deep in the centre of the brain that relays visual signals from the retina to the cortex.

The LGN was previously thought to be too difficult to reach. But surgical advances for deep brain stimulation – including treatment used for movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease – have made accessing it relatively easy, via a single small hole in the skull.

Pezaris and Reid tested LGN electrode implants on two adult macaques. Each animal had previously been trained to quickly direct their gaze towards a point of light on a computer screen. They then ran three types of trials: one in which a flash appeared on the screen; another in which the monkey received an electrical pulse from their implant; a third in which nothing happened at all.

With electrical stimulation, the monkeys directed their gaze at specific points in front of them, exactly as if they had just "seen" a flash. When the researchers implanted two separate electrodes, stimulating different parts of the LGN, the monkeys looked in two different directions, one after another.

General vision
"This research establishes that there is a new avenue for further exploration," says Pezaris. "What we created was only two points of light, two pixels. Though the exact numbers haven't been determined accurately, it's generally thought that we need some hundreds of them for general vision."

In the coming months, the team will repeat the experiment with eight electrodes, and ultimately plan to apply the technique to humans.

Peter Schiller at MIT, who works with implants in the visual cortex, says only further research will reveal what area is best suited for implants. "The geniculate is more promising than the retina, but I am not at all convinced that is it better than the primary visual cortex," he says.

"Given the limitations of how tightly packed you can put in an [electrode] array, and how much the current spreads at the tip of the electrodes, it is highly desirable to place them in an area with the largest amount of visual tissue available," he told New Scientist.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11692-deep-brain-implants-show-bionic-vision-promise.html

[Vlootvoogd]

How far will man be able to go with these techniques?
I believe very far.
See Genesis 11:6