so I was thinking about if I had a camera surgically attached to my body and images were fed directly to my brain. would it be possible to sleep with this camera eye still open? like how would that work. you could of course just have the camera shut off during sleep just like your lids close to minimize visual stimulus. but hypothetically speaking, say we figured out how to attach a camera and have these images fed to some part of the brain, what part I really don’t know what, some part that handles visuals…you could still be receiving these images while you sleep. would you remember things when you wake up? would the images only affect dream and you would have no way of distinguishing between what your mind fabricated and what was really there. can anybody tell me how this camera thing might fit in given current knowledge of how the brain works? wish that I knew more on that.
In a New Box. » Blog Archive » the thieves got in because I accidently opened the garage door while I was sleeping said,
[...] Jose Carmena at UC Berkeley is working on brain-computer interfaces. So think a surgical implant with hundreds of tiny electrodes placed in the frontal and parietal lobes (motor regions). A version of the implant was tested on monkeys and they were able to learn how to operate a robot arm. There’s more to it than what I’m saying, but think - this could be the future. BRAIN IMPLANTS! The possibilities…the possibly evil possibilities. So after thinking about what my head mods would look like for a while, I went back to the question I have whenever I hear about this implant business (see this post from a few weeks ago). What happens when you sleep? Maybe implants will not become mainstream until I’m well dead because they are likely to be attached to computers and complications for a while. But someday everyone will have their implants and you will be able to choose what do to with the signal. In the end that’s all it is isn’t it? So you program your implants to operate or control various things. It will replace the clapper, be used for security messages, and enable T9-ed mind messages. So when you sleep, and those implants are still there, and you involuntarily use a motor function…ok maybe you could turn it off, but pretend you can’t because it’s more interesting to think about. I’ll let you think about that one… [...]
