biocomputing – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Sat, 29 Apr 2017 22:45:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Interconnected Rat Brains Create Organic Computer https://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/07/interconnected-rat-brains-create-organic-computer Mon, 13 Jul 2015 09:41:42 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=15413 Linked rat brains

Scientists have been experimenting with brain-to-brain interfaces for years. Miguel Nicolelis, a neurobiologist at Duke University Medical Center, has created a “Brainet” or a network of interconnected brains with four rats. With electrodes implanted directly in the cortex rodents exchange information to create an organic computing device. Collectively, they were able to solve computational problems including image processing, storing and recalling information and even predicting precipitation.

Read the full story by Mona Lalwani at Engadget

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