Therapy, Enhancement and the Augmented Society

Global warming isn’t the only topic being discussed at this week’s AAAS meeting. University of Pittsburgh researchers at the conference announced a significant step forward in the development of functional-replacement artificial limbs. They created a simple artificial arm which can be controlled by neural impulses directly from the brain, via a series of extremely thin implanted probes. A test monkey (its healthy real arms restrained) was able to learn to move the prosthetic arm with sufficient precision to be able to feed itself. Or, rather, the monkey and the arm co-learned: the monkey learned how to control the arm, and the arm’s software learned what the various brain signals meant. The next step will be to create more complex hands and fingers for the artificial arm, and ultimately to make neurally-controlled prosthetics available to humans with missing or paralyzed limbs.

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You have learn to fight adversity and to solve (problems). If you do not solve them in this lifetime, they appear again and again in different forms and situations in the same life, and in other ones, until you learn to master them in the right way.

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