# Brains! We want brains on teh internets! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brains-we-want-brains-on-teh-internets/395761 "2007-03-13T16:21:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brains-we-want-brains-on-teh-internets/395761/1 "2007-03-13T16:21:28Z")
Forget wireless,[brain-computer interface](http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2007/03/the_first_comme_1.html) is the next sci-fi idea to come to life. The interface is being developed for therapeutic use, but maybe one day we can have mental internet access. Having the SDMB beamed directly into my head could do wonders for the ol’ IQ. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_of\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@Sock\_of\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_of_Doom)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brains-we-want-brains-on-teh-internets/395761/2 "2007-03-13T16:29:34Z")
[QUOTE=Mouse\_Maven] Forget wireless,[brain-computer interface](http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2007/03/the_first_comme_1.html) is the next sci-fi idea to come to life. The interface is being developed for therapeutic use, but maybe one day we can have mental internet access. Having the SDMB beamed directly into my head could do wonders for the ol’ IQ. 😃 [/QUOTE] Wasn’t something similar done with monkeys a bit ago? Except I think the electrodes were implanted in the brain. Hmm…off to google. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brains-we-want-brains-on-teh-internets/395761/3 "2007-03-13T16:32:16Z")
Yeah, but then you’d probably also have spam beamed directly into your head as well. It could be like something out of “Harrison Bergeron”. ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brains-we-want-brains-on-teh-internets/395761/4 "2007-03-13T16:38:24Z")
[QUOTE=Synthetically Organic] Wasn’t something similar done with monkeys a bit ago? Except I think the electrodes were implanted in the brain. Hmm…off to google. [/QUOTE] Yep, it was. I looked up the paper here at work (I’m at a University), but I wasn’t sure if a link would work. They connected the brains of two macque monkeys to a computer. The monkeys learned to move a cursor on a computer screen for a reward. If I understand it correctly, the monkeys where then trained to move a robotic arm for a reward. Interesting stuff. The connection is just to pick up electric impulses in the brain, so the subjects are actually consciously adjusting their neuron firing. Those must be some _really_ good monkey treats. (Oh, they used juice. Ok. Juice of what? I want some.) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brains-we-want-brains-on-teh-internets/395761/5 "2007-03-13T17:20:32Z")
What good would it be without an “Edit” function? Not only Spam, but Viruses, Trojan Horses, and Worms, too. It’s be like Frederick Pohl’s **the Merchant’s war**. Or Stephen King’s **the Cell**. Even without all the bad stuff, you’d be instantly downloading tons of unproven data, cites, and speculation, along with random trollwork. Even from the Dope Board. If you think you hate (_fill in name of poster you find obnoxious_)'s posts _now_, wait until you have them verbatim and in full inside your own head. You’ve only got a finite amount of storage in that organic media, you know. You want it to be taken up by The Grapist? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brains-we-want-brains-on-teh-internets/395761/6 "2007-03-13T18:52:57Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] You’ve only got a finite amount of storage in that organic media, you know. You want it to be taken up by The Grapist? [/QUOTE] This brain has been graped by The Grapist! :: shudders ::