Robotic Arm Moved Just By Thinking About It.

"I don't have one single word to give you what I felt at that moment. That word doesn't exist."

via hosted.ap.org

It wasn't my arm but it was my brain, my thoughts. I was moving something with it.

The goal is a Star Trek-like melding of mind and machine.

Combining what's considered the most humanlike bionic arm to date - even the fingers bend like real ones - with tiny chips implanted in the brain.

Those electrodes tap into electrical signals from brain cells that command movement.

Bypassing a broken spinal cord, they relay those signals to the robotic third arm.

We really are at a tipping point now with this technology,"

Recreating sensation means crafting a two-way highway with those brain chips

plan is to turn research into a robotic exoskeleton that would help the paralyzed move their bodies.

LISTENING TO THE BRAIN, THE MOST SPECTACULAR PROCESSOR, COMPUTER MACHINE EVER CREATED.

READING THE BRAIN MACHINE LANGUAGE.

UNDERSTANDING THE BRAIN'S LANGAUGE.

Then, with a thought only, you will move, control, receive presence feedback from a robot half a planet apart.

A tele teleportation.

and.. if we can get a fake,artificial reality feedback, a presence feedback, into our brains - we don't - we so do not need even to exist.

All that can be simulated. Brain feedback, brain activity, but ultimately, brain itself will be simulated.

Now see if that has not already happened, if we already are not a simulated process. Not real.
We may not be real, just an image, a simulated artificial process.

We are a program running inside a brain anyway. Our body is a supporting peripheral.

Christians Religion, A Cult Death. Greed, Fear, Fraud. Injustice, Aggression.

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Huffpost comment by Tulka2:

“Their religion gives cover to their greed and fear. In their cosmology, the world was made for them, and that means now.....th­is generation­, now.

This beautiful planet is just a slum apartment on the way to mans' real life which happens after death. We are in the clutches of a death cult.

Not for the first time. In many other historical times, man, out of fear, tries to wrestle death to the ground by becoming Death itself.

At least the Muslims, who feel the same way about this planet, have a happy, sensual vision of the afterlife.

The thing Christians seem to enjoy is the thought of watching sinners suffer from a high perch. It's a death cult. ”

Republicans On The Loose: War On Environment. War on Women. War on Jobs. War on America.

America's environmental protections are under a sweeping, concerted republican assault in Congress that could effectively roll back the federal government's ability to safeguard air and water more than 100 years

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Grave damage to the environemnt, to quality of life. Why? So that republican corporations earn more profits.

Republican Bills Would Erase Decades Of Protection

Stunning campaign against governmental regulatory authority that is now surprisingly close to succeeding.

In just the year since the GOP took control of the House, there have been at least 159 votes held against environmental protections -- including 83 targeting the Environmental Protection Agency -- on the House floor alone

Republicans have made an assault on all environmental issues

single-handedly amends probably more laws of the United States than any law ever introduced in Congress

Solar energy provides about 10,000 times more energy per year than we actually use.

via publicserviceeurope.com

Some $34bn was provided during the last 15 months 2010,11 by Chinese government banks to China-based solar companies, whereas the European Investment Bank lent approximately €6bn in 2010 - for the entire renewable energy sector

Targets 2030
The latest scenarios by the IEA, Greenpeace and EREC predict shares of photovoltaic electricity between 10 and 18 % of the electricity supply worldwide and up to 27 % in Europe

Steve Jobs Was of Syrian Arab-German-American Heritage, adopted to family in San Francisco. Never met his biological parents.

via opednews.com

also
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/dad_waits_for_jobs_to_iphone_EwulCL9TDT...
http://newamericamedia.org/2011/10/steve-jobs-was-an-arab-american.php

#OccupyWallStreet: Roubini Predicsd U.S. Social Unrest - Without Reform, Capitalism Will Remain in Crisis

United States' quiet period ended with the Occupy Wall Street protests -- which are now in their third week and appear to be growing. Moreover, if Roubini's August prediction is correct, this is just the beginning of a period of social unrest, if major reforms are not implemented.

via ibtimes.com

To Fix Capitalism, Balance Needed Between Free Market and Public Goods

current global economic system -- capitalism -- will remain in a crisis, one that economist Karl Marx predicted more than a century ago -- until major systemic reforms are implemented.

social unrest and demonstrations are all being driven by the same thing, a crisis period for capitalism -- the economic system's most serious crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

One that stems from globalization, financial intermediation run amok, and a destructive redistribution of income and wealth from labor to capital.

All of the nations that have seen social unrest and demonstrations "are all driven by the same issues and tensions: growing inequality, poverty, unemployment, and hopelessness. Even the world's middle classes are feeling the squeeze of falling incomes and opportunities,"

one of economist Karl Marx's critiques of capitalism is playing itself out in the global financial crisis.

Marx, among other postulates, argued that capitalism had an internal contradiction that would cyclically lead to crises, and that, at minimum, would place pressure on the economic system.

need to return to the right balance between markets and provision of public goods. That means moving away from both the Anglo-Saxon model of laissez-faire and voodoo economics and the continental European model of deficit-driven welfare states.
Both are broken

Prosthetic Exoskeleton commanded by brain may soon enable paralyzed to walk. Brazilian Moon Shot.

via latimes.com

An ambitious objective: On the opening day of the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament in Brazil, they hope to send a young quadriplegic striding out to midfield to open the games, suited up in the "prosthetic exoskeleton" they aim to build.

The latest experiment of the nonprofit consortium showed that electrical messages conveying sensation could be sent directly to the monkeys' brains — in enough detail that both animals could distinguish among three identical circles by virtually "feeling" their differing textures.

Those sensations did not come from the animals' fingers, but from specially coded electrical currents delivered straight to each monkey's sensory cortex by four filaments the breadth of a hair.

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this of course has a huge potential - sending electrical signals to the brain to simulate different feelings

bypass the body's complex network of nerve endings and supply the sensation of touch directly to the brains - of monkeys