Amazing Video of a Brain Perceiving the External World 25
redletterdave points out work from Japanese researchers who produced an incredible visualization of how a brain perceives its environment. Studying zebrafish larvae, the scientists were able to observe neuronal signals in real time as the zebrafish saw and identified is prey, a paramecium. The results are illustrated in a brief video posted to YouTube, and in a longer video abstract hosted at Current Biology. (Direct download). The work is important because it demonstrates direct mapping of external stimuli to internal neuron activity in the optic tectum.
more likely we will become gigantic couch blobs (Score:5, Insightful)
since the exact mechanism of addiction will be discovered down to the last neuron, corporations can then exploit that information to guarantee addiction to whatever digital product they manufacture. id imagine it will be some kind of cross between the following
1. Home shopping network
2. Online gambling
3. MMO gaming
4. Pornography