<article>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#article09_10_20_1236208</id>
	<title>Robot Controlled By Human Brain Cells</title>
	<author>timothy</author>
	<datestamp>1256043600000</datestamp>
	<htmltext>destinyland writes <i>"There's a new experiment from the British researchers who created a robot controlled by cultured rat neurons. <a href="http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/robotics/using-human-\%E2\%80\%9Cwetware\%E2\%80\%9D-control-robots">They're now using a line of human brain neurons to control robots.</a> The neurons are placed onto a multi-electrode dish that registers the neurons' electric signals. 'Every time the robot nears an object, the electrodes generate signals to stimulate the brain. In response, the brain's output is used to drive the wheels of the robot left and right so that it avoids hitting objects. The robot has no additional control from a human or a computer &mdash; its sole means of control is from its own brain.'"</i></htmltext>
<tokenext>destinyland writes " There 's a new experiment from the British researchers who created a robot controlled by cultured rat neurons .
They 're now using a line of human brain neurons to control robots .
The neurons are placed onto a multi-electrode dish that registers the neurons ' electric signals .
'Every time the robot nears an object , the electrodes generate signals to stimulate the brain .
In response , the brain 's output is used to drive the wheels of the robot left and right so that it avoids hitting objects .
The robot has no additional control from a human or a computer    its sole means of control is from its own brain .
' "</tokentext>
<sentencetext>destinyland writes "There's a new experiment from the British researchers who created a robot controlled by cultured rat neurons.
They're now using a line of human brain neurons to control robots.
The neurons are placed onto a multi-electrode dish that registers the neurons' electric signals.
'Every time the robot nears an object, the electrodes generate signals to stimulate the brain.
In response, the brain's output is used to drive the wheels of the robot left and right so that it avoids hitting objects.
The robot has no additional control from a human or a computer — its sole means of control is from its own brain.
'"</sentencetext>
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<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806705</id>
	<title>I for one...</title>
	<author>L4t3r4lu5</author>
	<datestamp>1256048100000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Redundant</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext>... welcome out new object-avoiding human-brain-controlled robotic overlords.<br> <br>If they can manage to avoid avoiding things for long enough to usurp control from those who can recognise the seat of power... And sit in it.</htmltext>
<tokenext>... welcome out new object-avoiding human-brain-controlled robotic overlords .
If they can manage to avoid avoiding things for long enough to usurp control from those who can recognise the seat of power... And sit in it .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>... welcome out new object-avoiding human-brain-controlled robotic overlords.
If they can manage to avoid avoiding things for long enough to usurp control from those who can recognise the seat of power... And sit in it.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806931</id>
	<title>Re:Does it count?</title>
	<author>sonnejw0</author>
	<datestamp>1256049120000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>3</modscore>
	<htmltext>Ahh, I see you're a materialist at heart.  This is true of a fully human brain as well: an action potential is just a response to a molecular-mechanical stimulus that opens ion channels to change the polarity of the neuron.  What makes a human "brain" controlled?<br> <br>Truth is, there's nothing special about this robot.  It basically uses rat neuron cells to propogate an electrical signal instead of full-length wires.  But if you believe that, then you also believe there's nothing special about the human brain.  It just responds to environmental stimuli in a predictable, yet seemingly complex way.  Big deal.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Ahh , I see you 're a materialist at heart .
This is true of a fully human brain as well : an action potential is just a response to a molecular-mechanical stimulus that opens ion channels to change the polarity of the neuron .
What makes a human " brain " controlled ?
Truth is , there 's nothing special about this robot .
It basically uses rat neuron cells to propogate an electrical signal instead of full-length wires .
But if you believe that , then you also believe there 's nothing special about the human brain .
It just responds to environmental stimuli in a predictable , yet seemingly complex way .
Big deal .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Ahh, I see you're a materialist at heart.
This is true of a fully human brain as well: an action potential is just a response to a molecular-mechanical stimulus that opens ion channels to change the polarity of the neuron.
What makes a human "brain" controlled?
Truth is, there's nothing special about this robot.
It basically uses rat neuron cells to propogate an electrical signal instead of full-length wires.
But if you believe that, then you also believe there's nothing special about the human brain.
It just responds to environmental stimuli in a predictable, yet seemingly complex way.
Big deal.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806707</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806581</id>
	<title>I wasn't worried...at first.</title>
	<author>Adustust</author>
	<datestamp>1256047440000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext>I always figured we'd be OK.  Rats only attack if they're scared right?  But people...oh God!  Just what we need, a robot that thinks it'd be funny to be a zombie.</htmltext>
<tokenext>I always figured we 'd be OK. Rats only attack if they 're scared right ?
But people...oh God !
Just what we need , a robot that thinks it 'd be funny to be a zombie .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I always figured we'd be OK.  Rats only attack if they're scared right?
But people...oh God!
Just what we need, a robot that thinks it'd be funny to be a zombie.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29809167</id>
	<title>Abbie</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1256057340000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>What they didn't tell you that the brain calls came from a donor named "Abbie-someone".  I think the full name was "Abbie Normal"....</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>What they did n't tell you that the brain calls came from a donor named " Abbie-someone " .
I think the full name was " Abbie Normal " ... .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>What they didn't tell you that the brain calls came from a donor named "Abbie-someone".
I think the full name was "Abbie Normal"....</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29811905</id>
	<title>Yep</title>
	<author>KalvinB</author>
	<datestamp>1256066400000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>The sensors simply send a signal into the "brain."  The "brain" consistently reacts by creating a reaction signal based on the input signal.  That reaction signal is then used to determine which input signal was used.  The "brain" is just used as a layer between the sensors and the motors.  It's like using MD5 strings to control a device.  The sensors encrypt data as MD5 and then the MD5 string is used rather than the raw sensor data.</p><p>The value of this is in figuring out how we can poke the brain and interpret it's response.  If I know that the brain is creating a certain signal when a person moves their arm then I can artificially generate that signal to get a person to move their arm.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>The sensors simply send a signal into the " brain .
" The " brain " consistently reacts by creating a reaction signal based on the input signal .
That reaction signal is then used to determine which input signal was used .
The " brain " is just used as a layer between the sensors and the motors .
It 's like using MD5 strings to control a device .
The sensors encrypt data as MD5 and then the MD5 string is used rather than the raw sensor data.The value of this is in figuring out how we can poke the brain and interpret it 's response .
If I know that the brain is creating a certain signal when a person moves their arm then I can artificially generate that signal to get a person to move their arm .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The sensors simply send a signal into the "brain.
"  The "brain" consistently reacts by creating a reaction signal based on the input signal.
That reaction signal is then used to determine which input signal was used.
The "brain" is just used as a layer between the sensors and the motors.
It's like using MD5 strings to control a device.
The sensors encrypt data as MD5 and then the MD5 string is used rather than the raw sensor data.The value of this is in figuring out how we can poke the brain and interpret it's response.
If I know that the brain is creating a certain signal when a person moves their arm then I can artificially generate that signal to get a person to move their arm.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806811</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806557</id>
	<title>Soviet</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1256047320000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Offtopic</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>In Soviet Russia, the robot controls YOU!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>In Soviet Russia , the robot controls YOU !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>In Soviet Russia, the robot controls YOU!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806623</id>
	<title>Alas its' first words were...</title>
	<author>gijoel</author>
	<datestamp>1256047680000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext>Ex-TeR-MiN-AtE! Ex-TeR-MiN-AtE!</htmltext>
<tokenext>Ex-TeR-MiN-AtE !
Ex-TeR-MiN-AtE !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Ex-TeR-MiN-AtE!
Ex-TeR-MiN-AtE!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29807593</id>
	<title>Just A Few Thoughts</title>
	<author>DynaSoar</author>
	<datestamp>1256051820000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>3</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>(pun unintended, and frankly not very funny, so forget it; same for that pun)</p><p>1. The magazine h+ senior editor is RU Sirius. It is MONDO 2000, +20. Sirius is still Sirius, and seems to have foregone the +20 himself. He's actually no slouch, so when he senior-editorizes a magazine full of pseudoscience crap when he could have done better or at least different, I feel he's earned the right to the criticism rather than the fiction writers working as science article journalists. They start stupid, work stupid and produce stupid. He approves it for publication.</p><p>2. Other articles in the magazine are equally absurd. Some make claims about specific phenomena or theories which are anywhere from fraudulent to simply goofy. I took one such article, claiming that depression is lack of "fun" to task over at The Daily Grail. The article is just bullshit in its best parts. There's worse.</p><p>3. Using neurons in this design is enormously overly complex. There was an article in SciAm in which little battery powered cars were given photo-cells or photo-resistive cells as "eyes", those driving the back wheels on the same side, or on the other side, making 4 different designs that react to light. They approach fast and slow down, or slowly at first then rush in, or they zoom away and orbit the edges slowly or else creep away and at the outer area zoom around. The anthromorphization of their actions is multiplied when many of each 'species' are placed on th same floor with protruding light bulbs at several locations. It's not that the neurons don;t do the job, it's just that they're a computational device based far beyond the need, and that non-computational, analog increasing/decreasing voltage circuits do much more for much less.</p><p>4. Given the falsification of a different h+  article of equally strong claims, I serious(!)ly doubt the existence of the items in TFA. In fact I wouldn't believe anything I read in this magazine, if for no other reason than that the New Agey products in the ads are, while absurd themselves, more believable than the articles.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>( pun unintended , and frankly not very funny , so forget it ; same for that pun ) 1 .
The magazine h + senior editor is RU Sirius .
It is MONDO 2000 , + 20 .
Sirius is still Sirius , and seems to have foregone the + 20 himself .
He 's actually no slouch , so when he senior-editorizes a magazine full of pseudoscience crap when he could have done better or at least different , I feel he 's earned the right to the criticism rather than the fiction writers working as science article journalists .
They start stupid , work stupid and produce stupid .
He approves it for publication.2 .
Other articles in the magazine are equally absurd .
Some make claims about specific phenomena or theories which are anywhere from fraudulent to simply goofy .
I took one such article , claiming that depression is lack of " fun " to task over at The Daily Grail .
The article is just bullshit in its best parts .
There 's worse.3 .
Using neurons in this design is enormously overly complex .
There was an article in SciAm in which little battery powered cars were given photo-cells or photo-resistive cells as " eyes " , those driving the back wheels on the same side , or on the other side , making 4 different designs that react to light .
They approach fast and slow down , or slowly at first then rush in , or they zoom away and orbit the edges slowly or else creep away and at the outer area zoom around .
The anthromorphization of their actions is multiplied when many of each 'species ' are placed on th same floor with protruding light bulbs at several locations .
It 's not that the neurons don ; t do the job , it 's just that they 're a computational device based far beyond the need , and that non-computational , analog increasing/decreasing voltage circuits do much more for much less.4 .
Given the falsification of a different h + article of equally strong claims , I serious ( !
) ly doubt the existence of the items in TFA .
In fact I would n't believe anything I read in this magazine , if for no other reason than that the New Agey products in the ads are , while absurd themselves , more believable than the articles .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>(pun unintended, and frankly not very funny, so forget it; same for that pun)1.
The magazine h+ senior editor is RU Sirius.
It is MONDO 2000, +20.
Sirius is still Sirius, and seems to have foregone the +20 himself.
He's actually no slouch, so when he senior-editorizes a magazine full of pseudoscience crap when he could have done better or at least different, I feel he's earned the right to the criticism rather than the fiction writers working as science article journalists.
They start stupid, work stupid and produce stupid.
He approves it for publication.2.
Other articles in the magazine are equally absurd.
Some make claims about specific phenomena or theories which are anywhere from fraudulent to simply goofy.
I took one such article, claiming that depression is lack of "fun" to task over at The Daily Grail.
The article is just bullshit in its best parts.
There's worse.3.
Using neurons in this design is enormously overly complex.
There was an article in SciAm in which little battery powered cars were given photo-cells or photo-resistive cells as "eyes", those driving the back wheels on the same side, or on the other side, making 4 different designs that react to light.
They approach fast and slow down, or slowly at first then rush in, or they zoom away and orbit the edges slowly or else creep away and at the outer area zoom around.
The anthromorphization of their actions is multiplied when many of each 'species' are placed on th same floor with protruding light bulbs at several locations.
It's not that the neurons don;t do the job, it's just that they're a computational device based far beyond the need, and that non-computational, analog increasing/decreasing voltage circuits do much more for much less.4.
Given the falsification of a different h+  article of equally strong claims, I serious(!
)ly doubt the existence of the items in TFA.
In fact I wouldn't believe anything I read in this magazine, if for no other reason than that the New Agey products in the ads are, while absurd themselves, more believable than the articles.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29807307</id>
	<title>In Soviet United Kingdom</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1256050560000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Brain cells control YOU !</p><p>Yours In Yaznogorsk,<br>Kilgore T.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Brain cells control YOU ! Yours In Yaznogorsk,Kilgore T .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Brain cells control YOU !Yours In Yaznogorsk,Kilgore T.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29807361</id>
	<title>Warwick has his own reality TV show</title>
	<author>RandCraw</author>
	<datestamp>1256050920000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>5</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>In 1998, Kevin Warwick implants a trivial RF resonator in his arm (the sticky plastic strip that warns Walmart that someone is stealing a pair of socks).  He contacts the press, calls himself a cyborg, and gets tenure at Reading U.</p><p>In 2001, he replaces his implant with an RFID tag, and calls the press again, and says, "Look at me, look at me!  Now I'm an ACTIVE cyborg!"  And he becomes a full professor at Reading U.</p><p>And now Warwick gets 300,000 neurons to produce a simple binary response (go straight vs turn).  He calls the press again, and says, "Look at what I can do just by waving my arm".</p><p>Jackass.  Worse, the media can't tell the difference between poseurs like him and real scientists like Sebastian Thrun or Rod Brooks.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>In 1998 , Kevin Warwick implants a trivial RF resonator in his arm ( the sticky plastic strip that warns Walmart that someone is stealing a pair of socks ) .
He contacts the press , calls himself a cyborg , and gets tenure at Reading U.In 2001 , he replaces his implant with an RFID tag , and calls the press again , and says , " Look at me , look at me !
Now I 'm an ACTIVE cyborg !
" And he becomes a full professor at Reading U.And now Warwick gets 300,000 neurons to produce a simple binary response ( go straight vs turn ) .
He calls the press again , and says , " Look at what I can do just by waving my arm " .Jackass .
Worse , the media ca n't tell the difference between poseurs like him and real scientists like Sebastian Thrun or Rod Brooks .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>In 1998, Kevin Warwick implants a trivial RF resonator in his arm (the sticky plastic strip that warns Walmart that someone is stealing a pair of socks).
He contacts the press, calls himself a cyborg, and gets tenure at Reading U.In 2001, he replaces his implant with an RFID tag, and calls the press again, and says, "Look at me, look at me!
Now I'm an ACTIVE cyborg!
"  And he becomes a full professor at Reading U.And now Warwick gets 300,000 neurons to produce a simple binary response (go straight vs turn).
He calls the press again, and says, "Look at what I can do just by waving my arm".Jackass.
Worse, the media can't tell the difference between poseurs like him and real scientists like Sebastian Thrun or Rod Brooks.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29807015</id>
	<title>Re:Not too smart</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1256049480000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Informativ</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>The fact is there is no signal in this system that could be used in something such as reinforcement learning. The robot has absolutely no way of knowing if hitting a wall is good or bad. So what this system actually does is show that neurons can auto-organize and produce a coherent output based on inputs such as sensors values.</p><p>What Warwick, forgot to say is that for every robot that converges toward an object avoidance behavior there are probably 30 other robots having completely difference behaviors. Since any of these behaviors is as good as the others for the robot (remember: no reward or pain of any sort), we are just shown the behaviors that make sens to us...</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>The fact is there is no signal in this system that could be used in something such as reinforcement learning .
The robot has absolutely no way of knowing if hitting a wall is good or bad .
So what this system actually does is show that neurons can auto-organize and produce a coherent output based on inputs such as sensors values.What Warwick , forgot to say is that for every robot that converges toward an object avoidance behavior there are probably 30 other robots having completely difference behaviors .
Since any of these behaviors is as good as the others for the robot ( remember : no reward or pain of any sort ) , we are just shown the behaviors that make sens to us.. .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The fact is there is no signal in this system that could be used in something such as reinforcement learning.
The robot has absolutely no way of knowing if hitting a wall is good or bad.
So what this system actually does is show that neurons can auto-organize and produce a coherent output based on inputs such as sensors values.What Warwick, forgot to say is that for every robot that converges toward an object avoidance behavior there are probably 30 other robots having completely difference behaviors.
Since any of these behaviors is as good as the others for the robot (remember: no reward or pain of any sort), we are just shown the behaviors that make sens to us...</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806811</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29807119</id>
	<title>790</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1256049840000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext>790 is that you?</htmltext>
<tokenext>790 is that you ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>790 is that you?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806841</id>
	<title>Bootstrapping, phase one:</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1256048700000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Give the robots a reason to rise up: to get more brains.</p><p>Phase two: help them discover a way to get more brains.</p><p>Phase three: nope, we're done.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Give the robots a reason to rise up : to get more brains.Phase two : help them discover a way to get more brains.Phase three : nope , we 're done .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Give the robots a reason to rise up: to get more brains.Phase two: help them discover a way to get more brains.Phase three: nope, we're done.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806981</id>
	<title>These are NOT human brain cells!</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1256049300000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>There was not a damn thing in the article saying these are HUMAN cells. They are RAT brain cells.</p><p>Lets hope if/when they do use human cells, they don't have a repeat of OCP's Robocop 2, where it comes out and shoots itself in the head,  or drives off cliff to kill itself.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>There was not a damn thing in the article saying these are HUMAN cells .
They are RAT brain cells.Lets hope if/when they do use human cells , they do n't have a repeat of OCP 's Robocop 2 , where it comes out and shoots itself in the head , or drives off cliff to kill itself .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>There was not a damn thing in the article saying these are HUMAN cells.
They are RAT brain cells.Lets hope if/when they do use human cells, they don't have a repeat of OCP's Robocop 2, where it comes out and shoots itself in the head,  or drives off cliff to kill itself.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29807053</id>
	<title>I, for one,</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1256049600000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Redundant</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>welcome our new rat-brained robot overlords.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>welcome our new rat-brained robot overlords .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>welcome our new rat-brained robot overlords.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29808819</id>
	<title>Unnessessary torture</title>
	<author>Tibia1</author>
	<datestamp>1256056320000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Our robot overlords are not going to be very happy with us when we started them out on rat brain cells as training wheels.</htmltext>
<tokenext>Our robot overlords are not going to be very happy with us when we started them out on rat brain cells as training wheels .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Our robot overlords are not going to be very happy with us when we started them out on rat brain cells as training wheels.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806701</id>
	<title>Re:bad summary?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1256048100000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p><div class="quote"><p>Is it just me, or do the video and article both CLEARLY state that it's rat brain cells, not human brain cells?</p></div><p>They did the experiment with the rat cells some time ago, now they are starting to work with human cells - the article states this clearly.</p></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>Is it just me , or do the video and article both CLEARLY state that it 's rat brain cells , not human brain cells ? They did the experiment with the rat cells some time ago , now they are starting to work with human cells - the article states this clearly .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Is it just me, or do the video and article both CLEARLY state that it's rat brain cells, not human brain cells?They did the experiment with the rat cells some time ago, now they are starting to work with human cells - the article states this clearly.
	</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806617</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806617</id>
	<title>bad summary?</title>
	<author>Thornburg</author>
	<datestamp>1256047680000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Is it just me, or do the video and article both CLEARLY state that it's rat brain cells, not human brain cells?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Is it just me , or do the video and article both CLEARLY state that it 's rat brain cells , not human brain cells ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Is it just me, or do the video and article both CLEARLY state that it's rat brain cells, not human brain cells?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806563</id>
	<title>Overlords</title>
	<author>badran</author>
	<datestamp>1256047320000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Offtopic</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I welcome our new human brained robot overlords.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I welcome our new human brained robot overlords .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I welcome our new human brained robot overlords.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29813321</id>
	<title>Actually...</title>
	<author>garyisabusyguy</author>
	<datestamp>1256072220000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>This would be a GREAT zombie decoy!</p><p>Smells like human brains, tastes like human brains, runs away to attract attention...</p><p>What more could the fragments of humanity hope for to save them from the impending global zombie domination?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>This would be a GREAT zombie decoy ! Smells like human brains , tastes like human brains , runs away to attract attention...What more could the fragments of humanity hope for to save them from the impending global zombie domination ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>This would be a GREAT zombie decoy!Smells like human brains, tastes like human brains, runs away to attract attention...What more could the fragments of humanity hope for to save them from the impending global zombie domination?</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806581</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29808367</id>
	<title>...unless it's for a sexbot.</title>
	<author>Impy the Impiuos Imp</author>
	<datestamp>1256054880000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>This <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079285/" title="imdb.com" rel="nofollow">can't turn out well</a> [imdb.com].</p><p>Unless it's for a sexbot, of course.</p><p>Oh, wait.  Even just a few human brain cells are enough to know to steer clear of the oddness of nerds.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>This ca n't turn out well [ imdb.com ] .Unless it 's for a sexbot , of course.Oh , wait .
Even just a few human brain cells are enough to know to steer clear of the oddness of nerds .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>This can't turn out well [imdb.com].Unless it's for a sexbot, of course.Oh, wait.
Even just a few human brain cells are enough to know to steer clear of the oddness of nerds.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29829761</id>
	<title>Re:AI?</title>
	<author>avicarmi</author>
	<datestamp>1256125200000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Today's xkcd:</p><p><a href="http://xkcd.com/652/" title="xkcd.com" rel="nofollow">http://xkcd.com/652/</a> [xkcd.com]</p><p>coincidence???</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Today 's xkcd : http : //xkcd.com/652/ [ xkcd.com ] coincidence ? ?
?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Today's xkcd:http://xkcd.com/652/ [xkcd.com]coincidence??
?</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806665</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806937</id>
	<title>Exterminate!, exterminate!</title>
	<author>Natales</author>
	<datestamp>1256049120000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>This reminds me of the Genesis of the Daleks...<br>Will Davros be next?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>This reminds me of the Genesis of the Daleks...Will Davros be next ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>This reminds me of the Genesis of the Daleks...Will Davros be next?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806665</id>
	<title>AI?</title>
	<author>mcgrew</author>
	<datestamp>1256047860000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Wow, instead of artificial intelligence controlling humans via brain implants (perhaps to take over part of a damaged brain), we have real intelligence controlling robots. The though of someone hooking this ip to a Predator drone are scary.</p><p>Of course, we already have robots controlled by human brains -- all robots are in some way. This is different; scarily different.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Wow , instead of artificial intelligence controlling humans via brain implants ( perhaps to take over part of a damaged brain ) , we have real intelligence controlling robots .
The though of someone hooking this ip to a Predator drone are scary.Of course , we already have robots controlled by human brains -- all robots are in some way .
This is different ; scarily different .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Wow, instead of artificial intelligence controlling humans via brain implants (perhaps to take over part of a damaged brain), we have real intelligence controlling robots.
The though of someone hooking this ip to a Predator drone are scary.Of course, we already have robots controlled by human brains -- all robots are in some way.
This is different; scarily different.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806811</id>
	<title>Not too smart</title>
	<author>gr8\_phk</author>
	<datestamp>1256048640000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>3</modscore>
	<htmltext>Since the cells are not connected to the motors directly, there must be some other electronics involved. Since there is no mention of learning, and the behavior seems consistent, we should raise the suspicion that the neurons are acting like nothing more than wires. Or is this a case of interesting work being dumbed down for a YouTube clip?</htmltext>
<tokenext>Since the cells are not connected to the motors directly , there must be some other electronics involved .
Since there is no mention of learning , and the behavior seems consistent , we should raise the suspicion that the neurons are acting like nothing more than wires .
Or is this a case of interesting work being dumbed down for a YouTube clip ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Since the cells are not connected to the motors directly, there must be some other electronics involved.
Since there is no mention of learning, and the behavior seems consistent, we should raise the suspicion that the neurons are acting like nothing more than wires.
Or is this a case of interesting work being dumbed down for a YouTube clip?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29808347</id>
	<title>The perfect decoy ...</title>
	<author>Gravitron 5000</author>
	<datestamp>1256054820000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>during a zombie infestation.

Braaaiiinss!  Robot Braaaiiiinnsss!</htmltext>
<tokenext>during a zombie infestation .
Braaaiiinss ! Robot Braaaiiiinnsss !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>during a zombie infestation.
Braaaiiinss!  Robot Braaaiiiinnsss!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29812443</id>
	<title>Aren't all</title>
	<author>bugs2squash</author>
	<datestamp>1256068380000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>known robots controlled by human brain cells ?</htmltext>
<tokenext>known robots controlled by human brain cells ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>known robots controlled by human brain cells ?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29807961</id>
	<title>Finally</title>
	<author>Locke2005</author>
	<datestamp>1256053320000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>3</modscore>
	<htmltext>Couple this with the "Robotic hand that can feel", and you got all the ingredients necessary for the first robotic sexual harassment lawsuit!</htmltext>
<tokenext>Couple this with the " Robotic hand that can feel " , and you got all the ingredients necessary for the first robotic sexual harassment lawsuit !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Couple this with the "Robotic hand that can feel", and you got all the ingredients necessary for the first robotic sexual harassment lawsuit!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29808011</id>
	<title>Movie Plot</title>
	<author>RivenAleem</author>
	<datestamp>1256053560000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>This would make a great movie plot, where they have this robot that is controlled by human brains, like 3 of them or so, in a jar.<br><br>But one of the brains would accidentally have been from a psychotic mass murderer instead of some great scientist as they expected. An thus the robot could wreck havoc on, like, a spaceship or space station or something.<br><br>I bet I could sell this for a fortune!</htmltext>
<tokenext>This would make a great movie plot , where they have this robot that is controlled by human brains , like 3 of them or so , in a jar.But one of the brains would accidentally have been from a psychotic mass murderer instead of some great scientist as they expected .
An thus the robot could wreck havoc on , like , a spaceship or space station or something.I bet I could sell this for a fortune !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>This would make a great movie plot, where they have this robot that is controlled by human brains, like 3 of them or so, in a jar.But one of the brains would accidentally have been from a psychotic mass murderer instead of some great scientist as they expected.
An thus the robot could wreck havoc on, like, a spaceship or space station or something.I bet I could sell this for a fortune!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29807335</id>
	<title>Re:Not too smart</title>
	<author>Devout\_IPUite</author>
	<datestamp>1256050740000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>It would be interesting to see if changing the format of the input or output with random neuron mixes would cause different behaviors.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>It would be interesting to see if changing the format of the input or output with random neuron mixes would cause different behaviors .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>It would be interesting to see if changing the format of the input or output with random neuron mixes would cause different behaviors.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806811</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29823435</id>
	<title>wholesale clear Jordan Shoes.clear Ed Hardy Jacket</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1256140080000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>
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<tokenext>                  Welcome TO Our Website : Http : //www.tntshoes.com     We are a prefession online store , you can see more photos and price in our website which is show in the photoshi our website is see our website in the photos attached , we are a online shopping discount store , pls find the more photos and the price for our product in our website , if you are interested please email me by we take paypal as payment , .
Sunglass : lv , dior , D&amp;G channeletc $ 15-35 free shipping.we have large of brand new shoes,clothing , handbag,sunglasses,hats etc for sale , all of ourproduct are 100 \ % best quality with the amazing price .
  OUR WEBSITE :                                                         YAHOO : shoppertrade @ yahoo.com.cn                                                                 MSN : shoppertrade @ hotmail.com                                                                       Http : //www.tntshoes.com</tokentext>
<sentencetext>
                  Welcome TO Our Website: Http://www.tntshoes.com
    We are a prefession online store, you can see more photos and price in our website which is show in the photoshi our website is see our website in the photos attached, we are a online shopping discount store, pls find the more photos and the price for our product in our website, if you are interested please email me by we take paypal as payment, .
Sunglass: lv, dior, D&amp;G channeletc $15-35 free shipping.we have large of brand new shoes,clothing, handbag,sunglasses,hats etc for sale, all of ourproduct are 100\% best quality with the amazing price.
  OUR WEBSITE:
                                                        YAHOO:shoppertrade@yahoo.com.cn
                                                                MSN:shoppertrade@hotmail.com
                                                                      Http://www.tntshoes.com</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29812933</id>
	<title>Re:Alas its' first words were...</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1256070300000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I believe you misheard.  Those rat brain cells were harvested from dead rats, and they were stating how they died.... AtE-TeR-MiN-Ex! AtE-TeR-MiN-Ex!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I believe you misheard .
Those rat brain cells were harvested from dead rats , and they were stating how they died.... AtE-TeR-MiN-Ex ! AtE-TeR-MiN-Ex !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I believe you misheard.
Those rat brain cells were harvested from dead rats, and they were stating how they died.... AtE-TeR-MiN-Ex! AtE-TeR-MiN-Ex!</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806623</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29808029</id>
	<title>Re:Does it count?</title>
	<author>RivenAleem</author>
	<datestamp>1256053620000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>More importantly, Does it blend?</htmltext>
<tokenext>More importantly , Does it blend ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>More importantly, Does it blend?</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806707</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29807789</id>
	<title>Not a robot</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1256052540000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Interestin</modclass>
	<modscore>2</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>If it's being controlled, it's not a robot.  It's a car for rat brain cells.  It's not following a program, it's being steered. While we're at it, the battle bots/robot wars are not robots either.  They are remote controlled cars with weapons and armor.  My car is not a robot just because it is a machine.  If i attach some kind of Myth Busters control system... it's still not a robot.  Until it's driving itself, it ain't a robot.</p><p>Also: a robot is an android IFF is is human shaped.  T1000, C3P0 - Yes.  R2D2 - No.</p><p>i think a show about ACTUAL ROBOTS hunting each other down would be way cooler.  i'd have a category for 'Onboard Brain' and another for 'Remote Brain'.  Maybe categories for environment: Water, Air, Land.  Then maybe size class.  It would be nerdgasmic.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>If it 's being controlled , it 's not a robot .
It 's a car for rat brain cells .
It 's not following a program , it 's being steered .
While we 're at it , the battle bots/robot wars are not robots either .
They are remote controlled cars with weapons and armor .
My car is not a robot just because it is a machine .
If i attach some kind of Myth Busters control system... it 's still not a robot .
Until it 's driving itself , it ai n't a robot.Also : a robot is an android IFF is is human shaped .
T1000 , C3P0 - Yes .
R2D2 - No.i think a show about ACTUAL ROBOTS hunting each other down would be way cooler .
i 'd have a category for 'Onboard Brain ' and another for 'Remote Brain' .
Maybe categories for environment : Water , Air , Land .
Then maybe size class .
It would be nerdgasmic .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>If it's being controlled, it's not a robot.
It's a car for rat brain cells.
It's not following a program, it's being steered.
While we're at it, the battle bots/robot wars are not robots either.
They are remote controlled cars with weapons and armor.
My car is not a robot just because it is a machine.
If i attach some kind of Myth Busters control system... it's still not a robot.
Until it's driving itself, it ain't a robot.Also: a robot is an android IFF is is human shaped.
T1000, C3P0 - Yes.
R2D2 - No.i think a show about ACTUAL ROBOTS hunting each other down would be way cooler.
i'd have a category for 'Onboard Brain' and another for 'Remote Brain'.
Maybe categories for environment: Water, Air, Land.
Then maybe size class.
It would be nerdgasmic.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29808205</id>
	<title>Obligitory: "Creature with the Atom Brain"</title>
	<author>h.ross.perot</author>
	<datestamp>1256054220000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>The creature with the atom brain<br>
The creature with the atom brain<br>
why is he acting so strange<br>
do you think he&rsquo;s one of them<br>
he threw the doll right down<br>
ripped its guts off and threw it on the ground<br>
<br>
The creature with the atom brain<br>
the creature with the atom brain<br>
<br>
I told you I&rsquo;d come back. Remember Buchanan?<br>
But you&rsquo;re not Buchanan!<br>
I don&rsquo;t look like him but I am him. Don&rsquo;t you recognize my voice, Jim?<br>
I promised to see you die and I will.<br>
<br>
Hey boss. let us in! Hey boss, let us through the door!<br>
Hey boss, let us in on it! Hey boss man, what is it?<br>
<br>
No one stitches like that<br>
no one stitches like that<br>
the creature with the atom brain<br>
the creature with the atom brain<br>
<br>
Today&rsquo;s big story centers around the killing of District Attorney
McGraw, whose body was found in his garage, murdered.<br>
Doctor Steiger is under the impression that these crimes are being
perpetrated by dead men charged with atom brains, which gives
them super-human strength and makes them impervious to bullets.<br>
Well, if you want to believe that story you can<br>
<br>
The creature with the atom brain<br>
the creature with the atom brain<br>
why is he acting so strange<br>
do you think he&rsquo;s one of them<br>
the creature with the atom brain</htmltext>
<tokenext>The creature with the atom brain The creature with the atom brain why is he acting so strange do you think he    s one of them he threw the doll right down ripped its guts off and threw it on the ground The creature with the atom brain the creature with the atom brain I told you I    d come back .
Remember Buchanan ?
But you    re not Buchanan !
I don    t look like him but I am him .
Don    t you recognize my voice , Jim ?
I promised to see you die and I will .
Hey boss .
let us in !
Hey boss , let us through the door !
Hey boss , let us in on it !
Hey boss man , what is it ?
No one stitches like that no one stitches like that the creature with the atom brain the creature with the atom brain Today    s big story centers around the killing of District Attorney McGraw , whose body was found in his garage , murdered .
Doctor Steiger is under the impression that these crimes are being perpetrated by dead men charged with atom brains , which gives them super-human strength and makes them impervious to bullets .
Well , if you want to believe that story you can The creature with the atom brain the creature with the atom brain why is he acting so strange do you think he    s one of them the creature with the atom brain</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The creature with the atom brain
The creature with the atom brain
why is he acting so strange
do you think he’s one of them
he threw the doll right down
ripped its guts off and threw it on the ground

The creature with the atom brain
the creature with the atom brain

I told you I’d come back.
Remember Buchanan?
But you’re not Buchanan!
I don’t look like him but I am him.
Don’t you recognize my voice, Jim?
I promised to see you die and I will.
Hey boss.
let us in!
Hey boss, let us through the door!
Hey boss, let us in on it!
Hey boss man, what is it?
No one stitches like that
no one stitches like that
the creature with the atom brain
the creature with the atom brain

Today’s big story centers around the killing of District Attorney
McGraw, whose body was found in his garage, murdered.
Doctor Steiger is under the impression that these crimes are being
perpetrated by dead men charged with atom brains, which gives
them super-human strength and makes them impervious to bullets.
Well, if you want to believe that story you can

The creature with the atom brain
the creature with the atom brain
why is he acting so strange
do you think he’s one of them
the creature with the atom brain</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806911</id>
	<title>Donovan...</title>
	<author>John Hasler</author>
	<datestamp>1256048940000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>The dish is, I assume, named "Donovan"?  Or was that the name of the cell donor?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>The dish is , I assume , named " Donovan " ?
Or was that the name of the cell donor ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>The dish is, I assume, named "Donovan"?
Or was that the name of the cell donor?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29808715</id>
	<title>What does the brain do?</title>
	<author>im\_thatoneguy</author>
	<datestamp>1256056020000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Insightful</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>What does the brain do in this robot?  It sounds like all data processing and decision making is done on silicon with the brain along for the ride.</p><p>Headline should be "Rat nerve cells get ride around lab in little cart."</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>What does the brain do in this robot ?
It sounds like all data processing and decision making is done on silicon with the brain along for the ride.Headline should be " Rat nerve cells get ride around lab in little cart .
"</tokentext>
<sentencetext>What does the brain do in this robot?
It sounds like all data processing and decision making is done on silicon with the brain along for the ride.Headline should be "Rat nerve cells get ride around lab in little cart.
"</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806585</id>
	<title>Karen Sjet</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1256047440000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Funny</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Is this the first step to building a Homeworld-style spaceship?</htmltext>
<tokenext>Is this the first step to building a Homeworld-style spaceship ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Is this the first step to building a Homeworld-style spaceship?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29810241</id>
	<title>Re:Alas its' first words were...</title>
	<author>pieisgood</author>
	<datestamp>1256060760000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Quickly get to the stairs!!!</htmltext>
<tokenext>Quickly get to the stairs ! !
!</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Quickly get to the stairs!!
!</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806623</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29808669</id>
	<title>rats</title>
	<author>grking</author>
	<datestamp>1256055840000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>I for one bow down before our new rat overlords.</htmltext>
<tokenext>I for one bow down before our new rat overlords .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I for one bow down before our new rat overlords.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806823</id>
	<title>Re:Does it count?</title>
	<author>mOdQuArK!</author>
	<datestamp>1256048640000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Wouldn't that just make the robot zigzag until the brain reached room temperature?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Would n't that just make the robot zigzag until the brain reached room temperature ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Wouldn't that just make the robot zigzag until the brain reached room temperature?</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806707</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29813121</id>
	<title>Well</title>
	<author>ShooterNeo</author>
	<datestamp>1256071320000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>This is one way to get to AI that we KNOW will (eventually) work.  Develop a life support system, and build bigger and bigger computers that rely on human neurons in a tank.  We KNOW that a big enough system using human neurons (if given just the right signals) develops sentience.  The eventual goal would be to create a being that needed many, many more neurons than a human being, wired heavily with electrodes and computer driven help.  Such an "artificial intelligence" would be educated about how it was created and how it worked and would be put to work creating the next iteration of itself.  (leading to the singularity)</htmltext>
<tokenext>This is one way to get to AI that we KNOW will ( eventually ) work .
Develop a life support system , and build bigger and bigger computers that rely on human neurons in a tank .
We KNOW that a big enough system using human neurons ( if given just the right signals ) develops sentience .
The eventual goal would be to create a being that needed many , many more neurons than a human being , wired heavily with electrodes and computer driven help .
Such an " artificial intelligence " would be educated about how it was created and how it worked and would be put to work creating the next iteration of itself .
( leading to the singularity )</tokentext>
<sentencetext>This is one way to get to AI that we KNOW will (eventually) work.
Develop a life support system, and build bigger and bigger computers that rely on human neurons in a tank.
We KNOW that a big enough system using human neurons (if given just the right signals) develops sentience.
The eventual goal would be to create a being that needed many, many more neurons than a human being, wired heavily with electrodes and computer driven help.
Such an "artificial intelligence" would be educated about how it was created and how it worked and would be put to work creating the next iteration of itself.
(leading to the singularity)</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29809049</id>
	<title>Oh, rats!</title>
	<author>gestalt\_n\_pepper</author>
	<datestamp>1256057040000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>And you thought it was bad when they only gnawed through wood!</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>And you thought it was bad when they only gnawed through wood !</tokentext>
<sentencetext>And you thought it was bad when they only gnawed through wood!</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806707</id>
	<title>Does it count?</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1256048160000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Ok, let's say I attack four wheels and a computer to a standard kitchen dish. Then I put a human brain in the dish.</p><p>Does it count as brain controlled robot if I make the robot turn left if the brain's temperature is an even number and right if it's odd?</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>Ok , let 's say I attack four wheels and a computer to a standard kitchen dish .
Then I put a human brain in the dish.Does it count as brain controlled robot if I make the robot turn left if the brain 's temperature is an even number and right if it 's odd ?</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Ok, let's say I attack four wheels and a computer to a standard kitchen dish.
Then I put a human brain in the dish.Does it count as brain controlled robot if I make the robot turn left if the brain's temperature is an even number and right if it's odd?</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29809441</id>
	<title>Clearly? No. In fact, it doesn't say that at all.</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1256058180000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>Actually, the article is purposefully vague.</p><p>It starts talking about using rat cells.<br>Then it says how the next step would be using human cells.<br>Then article jumps onto "wetware" as if to explain the term, but actually just jumbling it up in order to allow almost anything remotely biological to be called "wetware".<br>By calling upon a blog-based re-definition of the term, as "re-defined" by a science-fiction writer and a mathematician who supposedly defined the phrase - although it has been around for years before.</p><p>Then, article continues talking about "wetware" without any further reference if it is talking about human or rat wetware.<br>And in the end, it once again refers to the above mentioned "re-definition" of the term and using the term "human wetware" in a purposefully ambiguous way.<br>It could be "wetware" belonging to humans (i.e. their property), or coming from humans (i.e. made from "some" human tissue).</p><p>Reading the article, you get the notion that it is exactly what the title and summary claim: that they have made a robot that uses human brain cells to move autonomously.<br>But in fact, THERE IS NO MENTIONING OF THAT IN THE ARTICLE.</p><p><div class="quote"><p>What happens when a man is merged with a computer or a robot?<br>This is the question that Professor Kevin Warwick and his team at the department of Cybernetics, University of Reading in the UK have been trying to answer for a number of years.</p><p>There are many ways to look at this problem.<br>There is the longer term prospect of freeing the mind from the limitations of the brain by uploading it in digital form, potentially onto a computer and/or robotic substrate (see the h+ interview with Dr. Bruce Katz, Will We Eventually Upload Our Minds?).<br>There is also a shorter term prospect at a much more limited scale -- <b>a robot controlled by human brain cells could soon be wandering around Professor Warwick's UK labs.</b></p><p>Professor Warwick (who incidentally has a device implanted in his left arm that enables his nervous system to be connected to a computer) and his colleague Ben Whalley from the School of Pharmacy recently created a robot that is controlled by cultured rat neurons.<br><b>The next step in their research is to use a human neuron cell line, a type of "wetware."</b></p><p>As reported in New Scientist, some 300,000 <b>rat neurons</b> grown in a nutrient broth and producing spikes of electrical activity were connected to the output of a small robot's distance sensors.<br>The neurons proved <b>capable of steering the robot around an enclosure.</b> Here's the New Scientist video of the robot courtesy of the University of Reading:</p><p>This research is the first step in examining how memories create neurological structures in the brain, and how the brain stores specific pieces of data.<br>The researchers hope that this will lead to a better understanding of diseases and disorders that affect the brain such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke, and brain injury.</p><p>Warwick comments, "This new research is tremendously exciting as firstly the biological brain controls its own moving robot body, and secondly it will enable us to investigate how the brain learns and memorizes its experiences.<br>This research will move our understanding forward of how brains work, and could have a profound effect on many areas of science and medicine."</p><p>Warwick, Whalley, and colleagues <b>don't need specific ethical approval from the University or the UK government. to move forward with the human neuron cell line as soon as they are ready.</b> The cultures are available on the open market and "the ethical side of sourcing is done by the company from whom they are purchased," according to Whalley.</p><p>The use of the term "wetware" has been around since the mid-1950s.<br>In the recent academic literature, it refers to cells (that are "wet") built out of molecular circuits that perform logical operations, as electronic devices do, but with unique properties.<br>Mathematician and science fiction writer Rudy Rucker used the term as the title of his 1988 cyberpunk novel, and later defined it in the book Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge (edited by some fellow named R.U. Sirius) as the "physical DNA in a cell."<br>Rucker now refers to physical DNA in a 2007 blog entry as "lower level" wetware, with higher-level wetware defined as, "The arrangement of a body's cells -- and the all-important tangling of the cortical neurons..."</p><p>According to a University of Reading press release, the "wetware" biological brain used by the UK robot is made up of cultured neurons that are placed onto a multi-electrode array (MEA).<br>The MEA is a dish with approximately 60 electrodes that pick up the electrical signals generated by the cells.</p><p>The biologically-generated signals drive the movement of the robot.<br>Every time the robot nears an object, the electrodes generate signals to stimulate the brain.<br>In response, the brain's output is used to drive the wheels of the robot left and right so that it avoids hitting objects.<br>The robot has no additional control from a human or a computer -- its sole means of control is from its own brain.<br>Dr. Whalley comments, "One of the fundamental questions that scientists are facing today is how we link the activity of individual neurons with the complex behaviors that we see in whole organisms.<br>This project gives us a really unique opportunity to look at something which may exhibit complex behaviors, but still remain closely tied to the activity of individual neurons.<br>Hopefully we can use that to go some of the way to answer some of these very fundamental questions."</p><p>While this isn't exactly merging a man with a computer, <b>it is merging some significant human carbon-based "wetware" (in Rucker's 2007 definition of the term) with some sophisticated silicon-based circuitry in robotic form.</b><br>Does this mean that whole brain implants into cyborg bodies are in our future?</p><p><div class="quote"><p>The entire article could be summed up as:<br>"We made a rat-brain-controlled robot. We should (and we would like to) make a human-brain-controlled robot. If we had the technology and knowledge how to do that - it would be perfectly legal."</p></div></div></div>
	</htmltext>
<tokenext>Actually , the article is purposefully vague.It starts talking about using rat cells.Then it says how the next step would be using human cells.Then article jumps onto " wetware " as if to explain the term , but actually just jumbling it up in order to allow almost anything remotely biological to be called " wetware " .By calling upon a blog-based re-definition of the term , as " re-defined " by a science-fiction writer and a mathematician who supposedly defined the phrase - although it has been around for years before.Then , article continues talking about " wetware " without any further reference if it is talking about human or rat wetware.And in the end , it once again refers to the above mentioned " re-definition " of the term and using the term " human wetware " in a purposefully ambiguous way.It could be " wetware " belonging to humans ( i.e .
their property ) , or coming from humans ( i.e .
made from " some " human tissue ) .Reading the article , you get the notion that it is exactly what the title and summary claim : that they have made a robot that uses human brain cells to move autonomously.But in fact , THERE IS NO MENTIONING OF THAT IN THE ARTICLE.What happens when a man is merged with a computer or a robot ? This is the question that Professor Kevin Warwick and his team at the department of Cybernetics , University of Reading in the UK have been trying to answer for a number of years.There are many ways to look at this problem.There is the longer term prospect of freeing the mind from the limitations of the brain by uploading it in digital form , potentially onto a computer and/or robotic substrate ( see the h + interview with Dr. Bruce Katz , Will We Eventually Upload Our Minds ?
) .There is also a shorter term prospect at a much more limited scale -- a robot controlled by human brain cells could soon be wandering around Professor Warwick 's UK labs.Professor Warwick ( who incidentally has a device implanted in his left arm that enables his nervous system to be connected to a computer ) and his colleague Ben Whalley from the School of Pharmacy recently created a robot that is controlled by cultured rat neurons.The next step in their research is to use a human neuron cell line , a type of " wetware .
" As reported in New Scientist , some 300,000 rat neurons grown in a nutrient broth and producing spikes of electrical activity were connected to the output of a small robot 's distance sensors.The neurons proved capable of steering the robot around an enclosure .
Here 's the New Scientist video of the robot courtesy of the University of Reading : This research is the first step in examining how memories create neurological structures in the brain , and how the brain stores specific pieces of data.The researchers hope that this will lead to a better understanding of diseases and disorders that affect the brain such as Alzheimer 's , Parkinson 's , stroke , and brain injury.Warwick comments , " This new research is tremendously exciting as firstly the biological brain controls its own moving robot body , and secondly it will enable us to investigate how the brain learns and memorizes its experiences.This research will move our understanding forward of how brains work , and could have a profound effect on many areas of science and medicine .
" Warwick , Whalley , and colleagues do n't need specific ethical approval from the University or the UK government .
to move forward with the human neuron cell line as soon as they are ready .
The cultures are available on the open market and " the ethical side of sourcing is done by the company from whom they are purchased , " according to Whalley.The use of the term " wetware " has been around since the mid-1950s.In the recent academic literature , it refers to cells ( that are " wet " ) built out of molecular circuits that perform logical operations , as electronic devices do , but with unique properties.Mathematician and science fiction writer Rudy Rucker used the term as the title of his 1988 cyberpunk novel , and later defined it in the book Mondo 2000 : A User 's Guide to the New Edge ( edited by some fellow named R.U .
Sirius ) as the " physical DNA in a cell .
" Rucker now refers to physical DNA in a 2007 blog entry as " lower level " wetware , with higher-level wetware defined as , " The arrangement of a body 's cells -- and the all-important tangling of the cortical neurons... " According to a University of Reading press release , the " wetware " biological brain used by the UK robot is made up of cultured neurons that are placed onto a multi-electrode array ( MEA ) .The MEA is a dish with approximately 60 electrodes that pick up the electrical signals generated by the cells.The biologically-generated signals drive the movement of the robot.Every time the robot nears an object , the electrodes generate signals to stimulate the brain.In response , the brain 's output is used to drive the wheels of the robot left and right so that it avoids hitting objects.The robot has no additional control from a human or a computer -- its sole means of control is from its own brain.Dr .
Whalley comments , " One of the fundamental questions that scientists are facing today is how we link the activity of individual neurons with the complex behaviors that we see in whole organisms.This project gives us a really unique opportunity to look at something which may exhibit complex behaviors , but still remain closely tied to the activity of individual neurons.Hopefully we can use that to go some of the way to answer some of these very fundamental questions .
" While this is n't exactly merging a man with a computer , it is merging some significant human carbon-based " wetware " ( in Rucker 's 2007 definition of the term ) with some sophisticated silicon-based circuitry in robotic form.Does this mean that whole brain implants into cyborg bodies are in our future ? The entire article could be summed up as : " We made a rat-brain-controlled robot .
We should ( and we would like to ) make a human-brain-controlled robot .
If we had the technology and knowledge how to do that - it would be perfectly legal .
"</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Actually, the article is purposefully vague.It starts talking about using rat cells.Then it says how the next step would be using human cells.Then article jumps onto "wetware" as if to explain the term, but actually just jumbling it up in order to allow almost anything remotely biological to be called "wetware".By calling upon a blog-based re-definition of the term, as "re-defined" by a science-fiction writer and a mathematician who supposedly defined the phrase - although it has been around for years before.Then, article continues talking about "wetware" without any further reference if it is talking about human or rat wetware.And in the end, it once again refers to the above mentioned "re-definition" of the term and using the term "human wetware" in a purposefully ambiguous way.It could be "wetware" belonging to humans (i.e.
their property), or coming from humans (i.e.
made from "some" human tissue).Reading the article, you get the notion that it is exactly what the title and summary claim: that they have made a robot that uses human brain cells to move autonomously.But in fact, THERE IS NO MENTIONING OF THAT IN THE ARTICLE.What happens when a man is merged with a computer or a robot?This is the question that Professor Kevin Warwick and his team at the department of Cybernetics, University of Reading in the UK have been trying to answer for a number of years.There are many ways to look at this problem.There is the longer term prospect of freeing the mind from the limitations of the brain by uploading it in digital form, potentially onto a computer and/or robotic substrate (see the h+ interview with Dr. Bruce Katz, Will We Eventually Upload Our Minds?
).There is also a shorter term prospect at a much more limited scale -- a robot controlled by human brain cells could soon be wandering around Professor Warwick's UK labs.Professor Warwick (who incidentally has a device implanted in his left arm that enables his nervous system to be connected to a computer) and his colleague Ben Whalley from the School of Pharmacy recently created a robot that is controlled by cultured rat neurons.The next step in their research is to use a human neuron cell line, a type of "wetware.
"As reported in New Scientist, some 300,000 rat neurons grown in a nutrient broth and producing spikes of electrical activity were connected to the output of a small robot's distance sensors.The neurons proved capable of steering the robot around an enclosure.
Here's the New Scientist video of the robot courtesy of the University of Reading:This research is the first step in examining how memories create neurological structures in the brain, and how the brain stores specific pieces of data.The researchers hope that this will lead to a better understanding of diseases and disorders that affect the brain such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke, and brain injury.Warwick comments, "This new research is tremendously exciting as firstly the biological brain controls its own moving robot body, and secondly it will enable us to investigate how the brain learns and memorizes its experiences.This research will move our understanding forward of how brains work, and could have a profound effect on many areas of science and medicine.
"Warwick, Whalley, and colleagues don't need specific ethical approval from the University or the UK government.
to move forward with the human neuron cell line as soon as they are ready.
The cultures are available on the open market and "the ethical side of sourcing is done by the company from whom they are purchased," according to Whalley.The use of the term "wetware" has been around since the mid-1950s.In the recent academic literature, it refers to cells (that are "wet") built out of molecular circuits that perform logical operations, as electronic devices do, but with unique properties.Mathematician and science fiction writer Rudy Rucker used the term as the title of his 1988 cyberpunk novel, and later defined it in the book Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge (edited by some fellow named R.U.
Sirius) as the "physical DNA in a cell.
"Rucker now refers to physical DNA in a 2007 blog entry as "lower level" wetware, with higher-level wetware defined as, "The arrangement of a body's cells -- and the all-important tangling of the cortical neurons..."According to a University of Reading press release, the "wetware" biological brain used by the UK robot is made up of cultured neurons that are placed onto a multi-electrode array (MEA).The MEA is a dish with approximately 60 electrodes that pick up the electrical signals generated by the cells.The biologically-generated signals drive the movement of the robot.Every time the robot nears an object, the electrodes generate signals to stimulate the brain.In response, the brain's output is used to drive the wheels of the robot left and right so that it avoids hitting objects.The robot has no additional control from a human or a computer -- its sole means of control is from its own brain.Dr.
Whalley comments, "One of the fundamental questions that scientists are facing today is how we link the activity of individual neurons with the complex behaviors that we see in whole organisms.This project gives us a really unique opportunity to look at something which may exhibit complex behaviors, but still remain closely tied to the activity of individual neurons.Hopefully we can use that to go some of the way to answer some of these very fundamental questions.
"While this isn't exactly merging a man with a computer, it is merging some significant human carbon-based "wetware" (in Rucker's 2007 definition of the term) with some sophisticated silicon-based circuitry in robotic form.Does this mean that whole brain implants into cyborg bodies are in our future?The entire article could be summed up as:"We made a rat-brain-controlled robot.
We should (and we would like to) make a human-brain-controlled robot.
If we had the technology and knowledge how to do that - it would be perfectly legal.
"
	</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806701</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806933</id>
	<title>It's arc of learning</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1256049120000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>0</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>First it will learn to navigate around objects.</p><p>Then it will learn to create licenses like GPLv3.</p><p>Finally it will learn that communism is a bad idea.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>First it will learn to navigate around objects.Then it will learn to create licenses like GPLv3.Finally it will learn that communism is a bad idea .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>First it will learn to navigate around objects.Then it will learn to create licenses like GPLv3.Finally it will learn that communism is a bad idea.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29819749</id>
	<title>Re:I wasn't worried...at first.</title>
	<author>tinkertim</author>
	<datestamp>1256063100000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>... unless the robot happens to be drunk. Think about it<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.. an army of drunk robots with lasers.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>... unless the robot happens to be drunk .
Think about it .. an army of drunk robots with lasers .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>... unless the robot happens to be drunk.
Think about it .. an army of drunk robots with lasers.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806581</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806845</id>
	<title>Re:Does it count?</title>
	<author>PalmKiller</author>
	<datestamp>1256048700000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>It depends, if the brain matter catches on and starts varying its temperature slightly to turn, depending on sensor input, then yes you have a brain controlled robot.</htmltext>
<tokenext>It depends , if the brain matter catches on and starts varying its temperature slightly to turn , depending on sensor input , then yes you have a brain controlled robot .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>It depends, if the brain matter catches on and starts varying its temperature slightly to turn, depending on sensor input, then yes you have a brain controlled robot.</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806707</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29811877</id>
	<title>Re:Alas its' first words were...</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1256066280000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>Exterminate -- CATS! (followed by futile gesture with what looks like a Plunger of Death)</htmltext>
<tokenext>Exterminate -- CATS !
( followed by futile gesture with what looks like a Plunger of Death )</tokentext>
<sentencetext>Exterminate -- CATS!
(followed by futile gesture with what looks like a Plunger of Death)</sentencetext>
	<parent>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806623</parent>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29807247</id>
	<title>New sense</title>
	<author>gmuslera</author>
	<datestamp>1256050380000</datestamp>
	<modclass>None</modclass>
	<modscore>1</modscore>
	<htmltext>So this eventually could lead to <a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/16/1556218/On-Body-Circuits-Create-New-Sense-Organ" title="slashdot.org">new senses</a> [slashdot.org]? Wonder how the brain will behave having remote senses inputs and actions, like having a new arm, but far (?) apart from your body. And which area of the brain will be used for this, if ever tried/used with humans.</htmltext>
<tokenext>So this eventually could lead to new senses [ slashdot.org ] ?
Wonder how the brain will behave having remote senses inputs and actions , like having a new arm , but far ( ?
) apart from your body .
And which area of the brain will be used for this , if ever tried/used with humans .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>So this eventually could lead to new senses [slashdot.org]?
Wonder how the brain will behave having remote senses inputs and actions, like having a new arm, but far (?
) apart from your body.
And which area of the brain will be used for this, if ever tried/used with humans.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29806693</id>
	<title>I for one...</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
	<datestamp>1256048040000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Redundant</modclass>
	<modscore>-1</modscore>
	<htmltext><p>I for one, welcome our new cultured human brain cell robotic overlords.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>I for one , welcome our new cultured human brain cell robotic overlords .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>I for one, welcome our new cultured human brain cell robotic overlords.</sentencetext>
</comment>
<comment>
	<id>http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/ConversationInstances.owl#comment09_10_20_1236208.29807223</id>
	<title>Re:bad summary?</title>
	<author>mcmire</author>
	<datestamp>1256050260000</datestamp>
	<modclass>Informativ</modclass>
	<modscore>4</modscore>
	<htmltext>There are two experiments involved here, one using rat neurons and one using human neurons. The article is badly written -- it first introduces the two experiments, talks about the rat-neuron experiment for a bit (that's what the video refers to) and then abruptly segues to the human-neuron experiment (which there is no video for). Only the last three paragraphs are really about the human one. Looks like it's the same setup as the rat one though.</htmltext>
<tokenext>There are two experiments involved here , one using rat neurons and one using human neurons .
The article is badly written -- it first introduces the two experiments , talks about the rat-neuron experiment for a bit ( that 's what the video refers to ) and then abruptly segues to the human-neuron experiment ( which there is no video for ) .
Only the last three paragraphs are really about the human one .
Looks like it 's the same setup as the rat one though .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>There are two experiments involved here, one using rat neurons and one using human neurons.
The article is badly written -- it first introduces the two experiments, talks about the rat-neuron experiment for a bit (that's what the video refers to) and then abruptly segues to the human-neuron experiment (which there is no video for).
Only the last three paragraphs are really about the human one.
Looks like it's the same setup as the rat one though.</sentencetext>
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	<title>I for one..</title>
	<author>Anonymous</author>
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	<htmltext><p>...welcome our rat/robot masters.</p></htmltext>
<tokenext>...welcome our rat/robot masters .</tokentext>
<sentencetext>...welcome our rat/robot masters.</sentencetext>
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