http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/162678-harvard-creates-brain-to-brain-interface-allows-humans-to-control-other-animals-with-thoughts-alone
The subject of the article above is a study that was conducted at Harvard University in an attempt to allow the human brain to control an animal with thought. Researchers at Harvard used brain-to-brain Interface to connect to a rat. The person connected to the rat was able to move the rats tail just by thinking about moving it. The implications of this technology are incredible and this technology was developed 2 years ago. This ties into the cockroaches that are being remote controlled by humans in terms have having control over an animal that is supposedly less intelligent than we are and tapping into certain parts of their brain to gain that control. As I said in my comment on Miguel’s post, maybe tapping into the cockroach could help us open up parts of its brain that we never knew e could and in turn learn how to open up parts of our brain that we were not able to before. I connect this to the testing of rats using brain-to-brain interface by proposing the possibility of giving a rat abilities through our own mind that the rat would not otherwise have on it’s own, therefore making the rat a mechanical being that is more powerful and more instinctive than an “all-natural” rat. Is this morally right to do and in time would it be right to use this technology to control animals that could pose a significant threat to others such as in We3 in order to save more humans?