Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Hmm ... Ordered PI-Zero 2WH "Kit" - Possible Problem Date: 27 May 2026 03:38:52 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <4rsfemxvi6.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <7XCdnUfd6c-ExYv3nZ2dnZfqnPWdnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net JHUuDKjaofMaGGsynwGW7gLjtuhUO4HyOzYlyACU5a+HwpLdRR Cancel-Lock: sha1:FtiOypuoVzLler2bg2inaqYI1LE= sha256:6J9725S4aFzsGAQGmddPcOE3E+imQS3Qknld9DmVFNM= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:87173 On Tue, 26 May 2026 22:33:22 -0400, c186282 wrote: > The remaining bugaboo is how to direct synth-neurons to connect with > the right spots in the host brain. They'd have to be self guiding and > do no damage. > > Surely CAN be done, but not today. I was implanting electrodes in white rat brains 60 years ago. Crude but it didn't seem to bother the rats much. The tricky part was anesthetizing the rat. Drop rat into a 2 quart pickle jar with a wad of ether soaked cotton, monitoring life signs. Sometimes a little CPR was necessary. If you did it right the rat would press a pedal to get zapped and become conditioned. Do it wrong and the rat would have a seizure. There was also a cat in the lab who had been through some sort of experiment. She was friendly but was mortally afraid of the rats. A synth-neuron would be challenging. It's not a point connection. The dendrites branch out and pass signals through an electrochemical process involving manipulating ion flows across the cellular membranes. The whole AI neural network thing attempts to simulate the process, weighting the interconnections. They've been chipping away at the problem on and off for over 80 years. I don't expect a solution any time soon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ A_Logical_Calculus_of_the_Ideas_Immanent_in_Nervous_Activity