http://vaguelyaware.com/2005/12/07/using-rat-brains-to-fly-planes/ Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:32:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://vaguelyaware.com/2005/12/07/using-rat-brains-to-fly-planes/#comment-1302 Anonymous Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:13:50 +0000 http://vaguelyaware.com/2005/12/07/using-rat-brains-to-fly-planes/#comment-1302 <p>just occured to me... 25k neural cells is a lot of processing power....that allows for....um... something in the vicinty of millions of connections, and of varying strength, neuronal circuts, and it can rewire/reroute on the fly. I think the figures for humans were billions of neurons and trillions of connections. I wonder a)how that compares to computer hardware (on an instructions/operations per second basis...) and b)if it could be taught to do various equations... nothing like bio-processing to trun things upside down...</p> just occured to me… 25k neural cells is a lot of processing power….that allows for….um… something in the vicinty of millions of connections, and of varying strength, neuronal circuts, and it can rewire/reroute on the fly. I think the figures for humans were billions of neurons and trillions of connections. I wonder a)how that compares to computer hardware (on an instructions/operations per second basis…) and b)if it could be taught to do various equations… nothing like bio-processing to trun things upside down…

]]> http://vaguelyaware.com/2005/12/07/using-rat-brains-to-fly-planes/#comment-1301 Anonymous Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:05:25 +0000 http://vaguelyaware.com/2005/12/07/using-rat-brains-to-fly-planes/#comment-1301 <p>holy crap. totally doing that again. whheee!</p> holy crap. totally doing that again. whheee!

]]> http://vaguelyaware.com/2005/12/07/using-rat-brains-to-fly-planes/#comment-1300 Anonymous Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:05:10 +0000 http://vaguelyaware.com/2005/12/07/using-rat-brains-to-fly-planes/#comment-1300 <p>and whoa. slick message...leaving....thingy.</p> and whoa. slick message…leaving….thingy.

]]> http://vaguelyaware.com/2005/12/07/using-rat-brains-to-fly-planes/#comment-1299 Anonymous Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:04:44 +0000 http://vaguelyaware.com/2005/12/07/using-rat-brains-to-fly-planes/#comment-1299 <p>saw that one too. i want one. and, id like to wire up a neural net to it's visual tectum (1st stop of optic nerve) and use it to decode to usable video. one net begats another. regardless. i totally want a mouse/rat cam. especially if its flying a jet.</p> saw that one too. i want one. and, id like to wire up a neural net to it’s visual tectum (1st stop of optic nerve) and use it to decode to usable video. one net begats another. regardless. i totally want a mouse/rat cam. especially if its flying a jet.

]]> http://vaguelyaware.com/2005/12/07/using-rat-brains-to-fly-planes/#comment-1277 engleweed Wed, 07 Dec 2005 22:08:37 +0000 http://vaguelyaware.com/2005/12/07/using-rat-brains-to-fly-planes/#comment-1277 <p>big deal - anyone can fly now with GPS</p> big deal - anyone can fly now with GPS

]]> http://vaguelyaware.com/2005/12/07/using-rat-brains-to-fly-planes/#comment-1276 Will Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:05:31 +0000 http://vaguelyaware.com/2005/12/07/using-rat-brains-to-fly-planes/#comment-1276 <p>I saw that too... o.O</p> I saw that too… o.O

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