Re: The world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue
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Re: The world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue         

Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: Jan Panteltje
Date: Aug 20, 2008 04:24

On a sunny day (Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:18:59 -0700 (PDT)) it happened Edward
Green netzero.com> wrote in
d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>:
>
>> Yes it is in some nutricient, and it seems they add chemicals as
>> 'reward' or 'punishment' to correct action (feedback in the neural net).
>> Hope I got that one right.
>
>I had wondered about the reward or punishment thing: whole organisms
>will work for food. What takes the place of "food" for a blob of
>neurons. Narcotics?

Maybe like with a horse, give it a cube of sugar if it does things right.
Maybe neurons like certain chemicals, I really do not know.
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