--- Skye <skyezacharia@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is an excerpt from one of those "weird news"
> mailing lists... and so has less of a chance of
> being true, or even well reported...
Oh, it's legit (as xgl already pointed out, the story
was posted on ABCNews.com about a month ago, at
http://www.abcnews.go.com/onair/DailyNews/Chat_Cochrane990806.html
).
> nonetheless, I thought I'd post it here anyways, in
> case someone was interested:
Yes, thank you :-) :-)
> "Researcher Peter Cochrane of British
> Telecommunications continues development of his
"Soul
> Catcher" brain-implanted microchip that he believes
> some day will be capable of recording all of a
> person's chemical reactions in all senses so as to
> capture "a lifetime's worth of experience and
> feeling," according to a June New York Times report.
Tech 2010: #32 Everlasting; The Genius Who Sticks
Around Forever
By Steven Kotler
June 11, 2000, Sunday
(It's in the NYTimes archives, but you have to pay
$2.50 to get to read it.)
Also, Wired Magazine had an article about Cochrane
from 1998:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/wired25.html?pg=17
Peter Cochrane Will Microprocess Your Soul
by Wendy Grossman
Issue 6.11 - Nov 1998
> (Already, doctors at a Veterans Administration
> hospital believe they have trained a patient whose
> ability to communicate was shut down by a brain-stem
> trauma; after an implant, he can order a cursor
> around merely by thinking of where he wants it to
> go.)"
Yeah, that got a lot of coverage around October of
1998 (links listed in chronological order):
http://slashdot.org/articles/98/10/15/1437257.shtml
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/981017/nbrain.html
http://www.techserver.com/newsroom/ntn/info/102098/info5_6928.html
http://augustachronicle.com/stories/102198/tec_124-5777.shtml
http://cgi.canoe.ca/TechArchive/981021_computerbrain.html
http://www.caller.com/autoconv/newsus98/newsus74.html
http://www.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/11/23feature.html
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