advent "foreshadow"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not what I'd call "telepathically" either. The rats used the Net.

JL

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

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> http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/28/business/telepathic-rats-experiment/index.html
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> Do telepathic rats advent biologic computers?
> By *Clive Cookson*, FT.com
> updated 7:18 PM EST, Fri March 1, 2013
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> *(Financial Times)* -- Rats have collaborated telepathically across
> continents in the first use of neurotechnology to transmit thoughts
> directly between animals' brains.
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> Scientists trained rats in Durham, North Carolina and Natal, Brazil to work
> together to solve problems in return for a drink of water. In the first
> experiment they had to press the correct lever corresponding to a
> particular indicator light; in the second they had to distinguish between
> wide and narrow openings.
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> Electrodes picked up the brain activity of the first rat, the "encoder",
> and fed it over the internet into the brain of its partner, the "decoder",
> which had the same levers in its cage but received no visual cues about
> which one to press. The best decoder rats correctly mimicked their
> corresponding encoder partners 70 per cent of the time.
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