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From: pcm@scammell.ecos.tne.oz.au (Smeg Head)
Subject: Re: Monitor NN process in real living creature?
Message-ID: <1994Nov10.015325.26383@scammell.ecos.tne.oz.au>
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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 01:53:25 GMT
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E. Robert Tisdale (edwin@maui.cs.ucla.edu) wrote:
: hume@gphs.vuw.ac.nz (Tim Hume) writes:

: >I wonder if it would be possible to scan a human brain at all.
: >If electrodes were placed on the outside then they would measure
: >the combined effect of all the electrical processes within the brain
: >and it would not be possible to determine the state of each neuron.

There was a HUGE and long running discussion about this in the
CRYONICS mailing list.  Some very interesting non-intrusive
solutions were worked out.  Post your question in the cryonics
group and ask them to point you in the direction of the list
archive.  Many possibilities were discussed and thoroughly argued.


