First Cyborg Of The World

http://en.vidivodo.com/188787/first-cyborg-of-the-world

A cyborg , also known as a cybernetic organism, is a being with both biological and artificial (e.g. electronic, mechanical or robotic) parts.

By this definition anyone with a pacemaker or an artificial limb would be a cyborg.

But this is some serious shit.

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this made me sad . . it looks terrified! what a nightmare that would be. we have become the villains from our own science fiction . .

it also calls mortality into question. how long can you keep a brain alive in isolation? longer than a whole body?

the video said 3 months, a/d

WOOOOOOOOW

  On 9/2/2010 at 7:12 AM, A/D said:

this made me sad . . it looks terrified! what a nightmare that would be. we have become the villains from our own science fiction . .

 

it also calls mortality into question. how long can you keep a brain alive in isolation? longer than a whole body?

the video mentioned that the rat brains only survive for about three months each, so they've been replacing them.

if they find a way to store the old "memories" of the previous brains when the new tissue takes over*, they could have some cyborg zombie rat brain kickassery going down in the lab.

*no idea how that'd work or what i'm talking about in general

its just a remote control car with stupid music

thats disturbing

  On 9/2/2010 at 7:12 AM, A/D said:

it looks terrified!

project much?

so they just kill those rats?

if you've never killed a rat in the name of progress you don't know what you're missing

reminds me of White Teeth by Zadie Smith

It's time to put on some fear factory...

The Brain is from Rat Tissue thats grown in lab. More google will get you more answers.

thanks guys. i'm wondering how long it CAN be done for. i wonder if it's comparable to or longer than its ordinary lifespan, if we direct our resources into promoting long life for brains in suspension.

24orange, of course i'm projecting! but it looks just like a rat trying to hide to me. there's something pathetic about it in that body, like it's straining against its limitations. i'm a big sad face ):

i have to say, the technology is amazing. in the long run maybe it means no more paralysis in humans, or KRANGS. i would love to see krangs running around in my lifetime!!!!!!

hell yeah

that rat car already responds to stimulus faster than i do

Apparently this happened in 2009... creepy stuff. I felt kind of disturbed watching it. There's all sorts of great potential there, but also scary potential. Imagine being trapped like that...

how does it learn? How does it take the responses from the sensory thing and translate that to the brain in a way that gives it motivation to, for example, not run into things.

I saw no more than 20 seconds of that but

  On 9/2/2010 at 7:38 AM, Scrambled Ears said:

its just a remote control car with stupid music

seems about right.

how does it see?

  On 9/2/2010 at 10:33 AM, Bubba69 said:

how does it learn? How does it take the responses from the sensory thing and translate that to the brain in a way that gives it motivation to, for example, not run into things.

this is a very good question, I googled several articles about this and still don't have a clue...how does a thin film of fetal rat brain cells make any sort of coherent thought or process data...no visual cortex right? It probably just shocks the little blob every time it runs into a wall, simple aversion

http://www.vbs.tv/en-gb/watch/motherboard/motherboard-tv-the-cyborg-2

check this documentary, much, much more interesting than that shitty minute long video.

fucking lol it's not a whole transplanted rats brain into a robot. If we could do that it'd be major major news (that's double major)

When it solves a crime, then I'll care