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Wireless activation of targeted brain circuits in less than one second | Rice News | News and Media Relations | Rice University
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Magnetic Beads Driver Board - OpenDrop
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Scientists Hijack Fruit Fly Brains to Remote Control Their Wings
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| | Researchers were able to hack into fruit fly brains and successfully command specific movements, with just a click of a wireless remote control.
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Magnetofiction - A Reader's Guide - Bits, Brains, and Behavior
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| | tl;dr: This sub-genre of science fiction has made its way into mainstream science journals. I argue that the science is sketchy and the fiction is disappointing. Submit your own Biophyctional Journal abstracts in the comments! Introduction Science fiction rests on a compact between author and reader. The reader grants the author license to make some...
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Evolution, Learning, and Uncertainty | Broad Speculations
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| A question that has puzzled me is the one of the evolutionary reasons for consciousness. I'm speaking loosely here. Evolution doesn't really have reasons. Changes happen in organisms because the changes in the long run bestow some advantage (or at least no disadvantage) to the survival of the organism. Let's rephrase the question: what evolutionary...