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EXOCEREBRUM. “The interface of physiology and engineering represented by brain computer or brain machine interface has a history of success in non-human and human applications for restoration of function...is it possible to attach a biological brain to an external circuit and establish a functional connection for learning?” https://lnkd.in/eB--UFz View in LinkedIn

THERAPY. “The researchers claim the mesh can be positioned with an accuracy approaching the scale of individual neurons. Activity can then be recorded to study the workings of brain circuitry, or neurons can be stimulated for therapeutic applications such as the deep-brain stimulation used to treat Parkinson's disease.” https://lnkd.in/dmA-KeT View in LinkedIn

CHEATING EVOLUTION. “Future applications of emerging technology can continue to shift us from our subspecies of homo sapiens sapiens to the transformative homo sapiens technologicus—a species that uses, fuses and integrates technology to enhance its own function.” https://lnkd.in/dAifP-w View in LinkedIn

AMPLIFICATION. “Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): recent clinical applications in otherwise “healthy people” are widening. These include enhancing attention and vigilance, motor learning and various methods to “… improve attention, perception, memory and other forms of cognition…” https://lnkd.in/dAifP-w View in LinkedIn

BRAIN UPGRADES. “The results show that nature has apparently designed the adult mammalian brain with the possibility of upgrades." No compromise of other senses in rats with visual implant. https://lnkd.in/d45-hdu View in LinkedIn

ENHANCED HUMANS. “Technological augmentation of so-called “normal” human function moves us away from the functional limitations of our species and closer to “super” human function.” https://lnkd.in/dAifP-w View in LinkedIn

SEEING IN THE DARK. “Rats learn to sense infrared in hours thanks to brain implants. Rat brains quickly adapted to use data from four infrared sensors, allowing them to "see" in the dark and paving the way for augmenting the human brain." (Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University School of Medicine). https://lnkd.in/d45-hdu View in LinkedIn

AMPLIFIED BRAINS. “Future think: cautiously optimistic about brain augmentation using tissue engineering and machine interface...technologies used for brain augmentation in restoration can also amplify the range of human abilities in those without pathology.” https://lnkd.in/dAifP-w View in LinkedIn