Cyborg Tomorrow

Brain in a Jar

Gilbert Harmann was thinking about intelligent robots and silicon-based life forms. Theory defines the removal the person’s brain from the body, suspend it in a vat of life-sustaining liquid and connect its neurons by wires to a supercomputer. It would provide it with electrical impulses. In this case , the computer would be then simulating the reality.

A couple of years ago, scientist generated it succesfully by remove the pig brains from their bodies and kept them alive.

We will probably be able to keep a brain alive in a thank-jar a lot sooner. For brain, this gland produce those hormones. It can be replicated by having small thanks of artifical hormones or machines that produced them. After that, it injected them into the brain along with the normal blood and oxygen. Some options like brain scans and nanobot repairs can provide us to consist digital copy of the brain.

This approach has also contributed to Hive-Mind Theory. According to this, everybody will be able to connect with eachother as brain to brain connection interface like internet. Thus, in a process of increasing interconnectivity, they can easily share their thoughts effortlessly without language from far away. Maybe you know sense8 series. Lymbic resonans would make it easier for a team. The power of pattern recognizing and simulating in the brain showed us to think about it.

Brain-Device Interface

To understand how we can control something with our mind, we need to comprehend brain signals, also known as mind reading. This mind reading is a fundamental aspect of being able to control or manipulate those signals. Our brain understands the hundreds of different signal patterns and makes prediction based on these inputs. Like a robot’s network of wires transmitting signals between sensors, processors and motors, our nervous system also has a similar setup. Signals are sent from our sensory organs to the brain and finally get actuated in the muscles.

Cyborg Insect

For instance, a team of researches received funding from DARPA under the Next Generation Non-Surgical Neurotechnology program in 2019. They were working on a brain-machine interface. They’ve been able to manipulate viruses so that they can introduce new genes that give cells the ability to do things they don’t normally do. They used special viruses to carry DNA into certain breain cells. This DNA then prompts these brain cells to produce two types of proteins. These modified viruses along with tiny magnets are then injected into the bloodstream. At the same time, a special headset equipped with lasers and light sensor as well as electromagnetics is used to detect and stimulate brain activity.

So, what if bees and beetles are the future of drones? In Nanjiang Technical University in Singapore, researchers have been working on some of the most advanced cyborg insects that you can control. Otherwise, DARPA’s scientist have been able to manipulate viruses so that they can introduce new genes. they put brain chips into the larva. By using electrodes implanted in its muscles at certain hertz , they can control it’s flight and speed.

From this point, can we command these cyborg drones or tiny beets with our mind ? Can weapons controlled purely by thought?