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Message #09580



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Seamus Allan seamus_allan@inet.net.nz
Date: Thursday, January 27, 2000 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: New symbol for BEAM lexicon. Let's try 'Mind Control'



>hey, i don't know if you have seen the movie 'the matrix', but i had an
>idea, that you could use the brain of an animal for controlling something
>else (robot?). It occoured to me that if you were to get a simple animal
>(cockroach, locust) and 'cut' the nerves going to, legs, wings, and then
>wire them into a computer program, along wit nerves for touch, sight. It
>would take some time and serious programming, but you could create an
entire
>virtual world. You could even do this to robots, and in the computer, give
>them huge bodies and see what happens, how they react. The only thing an
>insect would need its body for would be life support, so you would leave
>thos nerves intact.
>
>just a thought,
> Seamus.
>
>PS: to make touch sensors, get a sheet of aluminium foil, a sheet of
>conductive foam and another sheet of foil, as you squeeze the foam, its
>resistance changes
>


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