That’s one small step for a robot

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First off i'd like to say this is my First CT thread, im not very good at this kind of stuff, but i would really like to share this with those here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/sc...=1&oref=slogin 2 page article

The article:
Not to long ago a study began to see if a monkey could make a robot walk. they discovered by having a robot in Japan and a Monkey with a brain inplant in America, The monkey while walking on a tredmill could infact use those same brain signals to make the robot walk on a tredmill on the other side of the world.

Now this in itself is amazing, but later in the study they decided to turn off the monkeys tredmill and see what happens... and scientists were truely amazed. For a full 3 minutes the monkey stopped walking but the robot continued. This means that a monkey could essentially focused on making the robot walk with out activiating the part of the brain that makes itself walk.

Now here is were CT comes in. I want to know the opinons on the study, and if this research should continue to move forward, Seeing what i've seen, it does not seem to far from impossible to have transimtters in 2 human brains, and possibley have them share and trade signals. could we possiblely trade thoughts? control peoples actions? Is that a good thing? is that ethical?

Feel free to help me formulate this into more of a disscussion, i know its an interesting topic, but like i said i don't often do this.