{"id":19177,"date":"2015-11-08T22:48:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T06:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/rats-engineered-to-see-infrared-light-use-it-to-seek-out-water"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:48:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:48:14","slug":"rats-engineered-to-see-infrared-light-use-it-to-seek-out-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/rats-engineered-to-see-infrared-light-use-it-to-seek-out-water","title":{"rendered":"Rats Engineered to See Infrared Light, Use It to Seek Out Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_tcGCPQ7O9Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The brain is a great information processor, but one that doesn\u2019t care about where information comes from.<\/p>\n<p>Sight, scent, taste, sound, touch \u2014 all of our precious senses, once communicated to the brain, are transformed into simple electrical pulses. Although we consciously perceive the world through light rays and sound waves, the computing that supports those experiences is all one tone \u2014 electrical.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86890 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rats-engineered-to-see-infrared-light-use-it-to-seek-out-water.jpg\" alt=\"bionic-rats-see-infrared-hunt-water-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"\/><\/a>Simply put, all of our senses are the same to our brain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/11\/08\/these-bionic-rats-see-infrared-light-use-it-to-hunt-for-water\/?utm_content=buffer30f26&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brain is a great information processor, but one that doesn\u2019t care about where information comes from. Sight, scent, taste, sound, touch \u2014 all of our precious senses, once communicated to the brain, are transformed into simple electrical pulses. Although we consciously perceive the world through light rays and sound waves, the computing that supports [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45308,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19177\/revisions\/45308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}