Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 03:00:48 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

   Kinda amazed they work at all. There's also a weird,
   almost 'holographic', nature to them - some of those kids blasted by
   hydrocephalus, with little grey matter left, still managed average or
   even a bit above average IQs. It's the same with 'cerebral palsy'
   cases. They STILL produce a 'person' in there. The System WANTS to
   work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

Old Phineas was a legend in the 'how the hell does it work?' circles.

Lashley was a bit more scientific. He trained rats to run a maze and then
selectively zapped parts of their brains. It didn't seem to slow the rats
down. Where or what, exactly, got trained.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Lashley

TMI: There is a fixture used when working with rats in conjunction with a
3D atlas of their brains. It has a rail that you put the rat's front teeth
over and two thumbscrews that you screw into the external auditory meatus,
i.e. the rat's ears. Now you have a stable platform for the Cartesian
coordinates of what you're aiming for.

No, the rat isn't protesting. You've previously dropped him in a gallon
jar with a cotton ball soaked in ether. It isn't an exact process and
sometimes you may have to do a little artificial respiration.

The rat eventually comes around after his new mods. You don't ask him what
he thinks about the whole deal because behaviorists don't care what
anybody thinks about.