The other night I finally watched Surrogates (2009)  starring Bruce Willis. The story takes place several decades in the future and essentially portrays 21st century society as a giant “grid” of humanoid robots that take the place of natural human bodies. Through the advances of neuroscience, the human mind can control machines, and through more [...]

(Oct. 16, 2009) — By directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons, scientists have given flies memories of a bad experience they never really had, according to a report in the October 16th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.
Before looking at this subject a little more, perhaps I should remind readers of [...]

The problem with neurology is to understand man himself. – Wilder Penfield
Concurrent with the last post on mind-control, it was recently announced that scientists successfully created the first-ever, remote controlled and accurate-flying beetle. That’s right, Hirotaka Sato at the University of Berkeley, wired up and attached a chip to the beetle’s body that sends and [...]