Harvey Newstrom has written,
> I'm afraid they are talking about a normal camera, albeit very small. It
> generates light and takes pictures of the reflected light. It is not
> communicating with the neurons with light.
Perhaps not, because the article also includes the following:
"We want to have the man-made and the nature-made structures communicate,"
Nurmikko said.
The Brown proposal was entitled "Coupling of Brain with Microstructured
Electronic/Optoelectronic Arrays: Interactive Computation at the Bio/Info/Micro
Interface."
Note also that the grant comes from the Defense Department.
(Don't expect detailed updates if the scientists discover anything truly
useful... national security concerns will prevail.)
Several years ago, Francis Crick suggested the brain composes images while
visualizing objects, and that it does so at the rate of forty cycles per
second -- faster than the frames change in 35 MM motion pictures.
--J. R.
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