5jefferydollars (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i agree 100%. i think the human race is for now in this period of time waaay to ambitious. stuff like this.. they should leave it in the primitive stages its in now instead of perhaps messing things up later on.

jina31582 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

furthering this type of research may contribute to the welfare of mankind, but really, with 6 billion humans and exponentially growing, is it in mankind's best interest to defy nature and save ourselves from everything?if anything, we'll be compounding our problems (excelerating mass extinctions, natural resource, and space depletions, etc) by intercepting nature's filter systems (disease, mutations, etc). mind you, this is just an opinion.

jina31582 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

rats are actually intelligent creatures. a 3 year-old human kid is actually less intelligent (or, dumber) than a rat or a pigeon.

twigglesjworth (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

that rat is sitting there thinking "what the fuck?! Where the fuck am I? Where are my legs?! Why can't I feel my body?! Food?! Piss?! WHAT AM I DOING!!". I'd hesitate to say that it has enough higher reasoning to justify its new purpose in life =P

MrBoyd11 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

all I know is for some reason thats freaky as hell.

matkovicha (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Very true 5jefferydollars.

mandmled (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i know...but the rats brain has a purpose...to be a rat, like you said, and it is controlling the machinery...so, why does it choose to turn one way when it could turn the other...thats what i am trying to say, what is its purpose...like what is it trying to do, i guess nothing ultimately

5jefferydollars (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i highly doubt it "thinks" its anything. because in essence there is really no way of recreating what we call a "concious mind" (may have spelled that wrong) now when human technology advances that far then we can say it "thinks". i would rather not see that day come because then we eliminate human injenuity in a way.

JDOfPivot (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Shmooglavoue, I agree, but, I saw another video like this, it is, actually, the whole brain (well, in another robot, this may be exactly what you said,) which they store in a laboratory.... But, anyone who says this is pointless is retarded. The thought that we, humans, can take living organic matter, from a living creature, (a rat no less, one of the least intellegent creatures on the planet, in some ways,) and make it correspond with a robot, is just.. Amazing.

matkovicha (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Do you suppose it thinks like a rat?