Re:One rat brain 'talks' to another using electronic link
by stcredzero on Thursday February 28, 2013 @04:24PM
(#5301127)
Makes me think of Steven Wright's bit about the light switch in his house he couldn't figure out the purpose for, so he flicks it on or off when he passes. After a month, he gets a letter from a woman in Germany saying, "Cut that out!"
to be convenient: http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130228/srep01319/full/srep01...
One observation, that the bbc didn't note, is that the decoder brain in the end had a representation of the encoder's whiskers.
To be a bit hyperbolic, the rat started to think it had two bodies. Or maybe it thought it had an extra set of whisker's some where. I can't quite imagine what the rat's body image would be.