Jim Fehlinger <fehlinger@home.com> writes:
> "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> > Dear heavens above, they're doing a Moravec Transfer on the lobster.
My thought too when I heard about it last year.
> Yes, except one doesn't get the impression that this 14-cell gut
> ganglion which has had one of its neurons replaced by an artificial
> one is still actually attached to a lobster.
Yes, it was removed from the lobster.
Hmm, maybe I can convince the Sten Grillner's group at the Karolinska Institute to do something similar with their lamprey spinal cord preparations... I think I'll try to convince my professor about it, it would actually make sense for our research group to get involved.
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