Yes, this is done via genetic engineering. At least the recent talks at MIT were sounding very upbeat. They placed enough to control the animals by turning on small lights inside there skulls.
> It is more interesting to connect two mature persons > > The only value of these efforts is developing a harmless technique that could be applied to humans
Then you surely want to do it via an interface to an electronic device, or something like that. "Harmless" first of all implies "reversible". The last thing you want, in this sense, is to have physical synapses between their neurons.
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Date: 2010-03-30 07:13 pm (UTC)Yes, this is done via genetic engineering. At least the recent talks at MIT were sounding very upbeat. They placed enough to control the animals by turning on small lights inside there skulls.
> It is more interesting to connect two mature persons
>
> The only value of these efforts is developing a harmless technique that could be applied to humans
Then you surely want to do it via an interface to an electronic device, or something like that. "Harmless" first of all implies "reversible". The last thing you want, in this sense, is to have physical synapses between their neurons.