Oftwicke
Oftwicke t1_j9b7sro wrote
Reply to comment by fiendishrabbit in Are Bird courtship dances genetic or learned? by uh_buh
Now I want to see a battle-of-the-bands type film about birds. Battle of the birds.
Oftwicke t1_j9b5q3i wrote
Reply to Can you control an animals movement with electric impulses to the brain and muscles? by Noobstompa6000
That would be very complicated, but essentially you could. You can already use electrodes to stimulate muscles for healthcare, re-education after surgery, or for bodybuilding. What you're suggesting through the brain is perhaps technically possible but impossible with modern science. Better to target motor neurons. Of course if you want it to make a normal, natural movement, you'll need to do the brain's work, and send just the correct amount of energy at just the correct frequency, which is an action potential. Ideally you'd find a way to stimulate the nerves directly like the brain or other nerves would rather than with electricity, you'd use neurotransmitters, but at this point you're just replacing the brain with a computer. This is complicated but not technically impossible. We just never made and probably never will make something that does that, and if we did it would take very, very long and doubtlessly we'd learn a lot of new things about nerves along the way that would be roadblocks for a time
Oftwicke t1_j9b43ph wrote
Reply to How are places picked for “research”? by lala_blah
Local regulations and accessibility (not too far from the research lab) are big things, though you could find good other criteria like "people from many backgrounds from around here we can have a diverse sample", "people here usually respond positively"...
Oftwicke t1_j9bjb6s wrote
Reply to comment by Valyrian_Kobolds in Why do we all have different voices? by LegitVirusSN-2
Frankly I'm looking forward to doing this when I've voice trained enough lol