X-Message-Number: 18666 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:25:38 -0800 From: James Bryan Swayze <> Subject: Science News on nanobots in the publication Nature-Science Update References: <> More nanorobotics in the news. Arrows point to nanotech's future Nature's motorised workforce gets into the groove. 19 September 2001 by MARK HAW http://www.nature.com/nsu/010920/010920-8.html --------------- Stop and search Glowing nanobots map microscopic surfaces. 25 February 2002 by PHILIP BALL http://www.nature.com/nsu/020218/020218-19.html --------------- On another note here's something else of interest I found while perusing "Nature". Bilinguals kick out their tongues Linguists filter languages for sound before meaning. 28 February 2002 by HELEN PEARSON Bilingual people switch off one language to avoid speaking double Dutch. By first sounding out words in their brain's dictionary, they may stop one tongue from interfering with another. ....... Their studies of brain activity reveal that bilinguals reject words that are not part of the language they are speaking - before working out what the words mean. ...... functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of brain activity cannot distinguish between two small populations of nerves in the same general area, ...... http://www.nature.com/nsu/020225/020225-7.html --------------- Ok a question for our brain brains. If I want someday to have an augmentation device with knowledge stored within, especially all languages past and present, and interfaced with my meat brain, how might this work into that scenario? If languages are not stored in separate areas of the brain will the brain be able to accept the alternate source? I feel we will find a way to make this so. I'm just puzzling over how. James -- My website: http://www.davidpascal.com/swayze A collection of photos of me and some of my artwork: http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4292752723&code=2039335&mode=invite A radio interview on Dr. J's ChangeSurfer Radio program with me and the father of cryonics Prof. Robert Ettinger, author of "The Prospect of Immortality": http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=3728 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18666