{"id":411,"date":"2008-05-29T07:54:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T07:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2008-05-29T08:04:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T08:04:56","slug":"the-6-million-dollar-man-becoming-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-6-million-dollar-man-becoming-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"The 6 million dollar man becoming reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7423184.stm\">video and report linked here<\/a> shows a monkey controlling a robotic arm via probes inserted into its brain.  This certainly demonstrates the viability of robotic prosthetics (and probably some terrifying military applications).<\/p>\n<p>But I wouldn&#8217;t want unnecessary probes in my head and our cousin primates don&#8217;t either.   It would be better if human volunteers were used &#8211; they are probably enough people willing to take the pain of research in the hope of success as demonstrated by cancer and other patients experimenting with unapproved drugs.<\/p>\n<p>(By the way, although reported just yesterday, this isn&#8217;t really news as it appears to have been done before:<\/p>\n<p class=\"arr\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/4275245.stm\"> \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\tBrain-controlled &#8216;robo-arm&#8217; hope \t\t\t \t\t<\/a> \t\t \t\t\t\u00a0\u00a0 \t\t \t  \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sad\">18 Feb 05 , <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/3186850.stm\">Monkey brains control robot arms \t\t\t \t\t<\/a> \t\t \t\t\t\u00a0 \t\t \t  \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sad\">13 Oct 03, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/1871803.stm\">Monkey thoughts control computer \t\t\t \t\t<\/a> \t\t \t\t\t\u00a0 \t\t \t  \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sad\">13 Mar 02. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"arr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"arr\">Definitely time for some human experimentation.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video and report linked here shows a monkey controlling a robotic arm via probes inserted into its brain. This certainly demonstrates the viability of robotic prosthetics (and probably some terrifying military applications). But I wouldn&#8217;t want unnecessary probes in my head and our cousin primates don&#8217;t either. It would be better if human volunteers &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-6-million-dollar-man-becoming-reality\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 6 million dollar man becoming reality<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-6D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}