https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=154 Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:26:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.10 https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=154&cpage=1#comment-413 Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:26:40 +0000 /?p=154#comment-413 I remember someone telling me about a tug-of-war game similar to this, where the stronger the brainwaves, the more you would pull the little ball towards you. The irony was (if I recall the story correctly) that the more relaxed you were, the stronger your brainwaves tended to be, so as you started to lose and worry about losing you inevitably made it worse.

]]> https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=154&cpage=1#comment-411 Tue, 05 Apr 2005 20:13:27 +0000 /?p=154#comment-411 Seems to me if the implant is reading signals in the motor cortex, there should be no problem with uncontrolled impulses, any more than with real motion. After all, the muscles read their signals from the same location (mostly). Plugging into some other part of the brain associated with emotion, for example, could produce unpredictable results. (Feeling pressured at work causes your computer to delete ALL your email!)

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