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With regards to the complex task of selecting optimal behavior for an autonomous mobile agent in a foreign environment, such tasks are easily accomplished by animals. They literally have evolved through millions of years not only the necessary actuators to move about in their environment but they also evolved to have the proper sensors to perceive and map their environment in the first place for them to be able to then make the right decisions that will best suite their interest - survive and mate. When it comes to robots, such tasks are still very hard, mainly because the method we're using involve training the agent in environments that simulate or atleast is close to the environment in th

Hi guys, so I'm not from New Zealand but planning on going to Manukau Institute of Technology (long story on how I decided for this to be my school). But since I'm not from New Zealand and haven't been there, can someone who went to MIT help me give me an idea of what college life, work load and curriculum is like there? Thank you!! :))

Hello! So I’ve been listening to science and tech podcasts for a while now, and its been amazing. However, I have a problem…

So first of all, some background about me: I’m currently an engineering student in uni, dreaming of his own novel invention/innovation in the field someday. And hence, at first I only listened to engineering podcasts. But in my search for my own novel idea that will “revolutionize” the future of the human race (cliché yes, on purpose), I started to realize that perhaps it would be advantageous to be knowledgeable in not just one field but a bit of everything as well and hence I started listening to a more diverse group of science and tech experts (through podcasts).

Hi so I'm currently reading Brainwaves by R. Douglas Fields. The part that I am currently at is about a group of scientists attaching a current detector to the optic nerve of an anesthetized frog and listening in to the "pops" the detector makes as it senses activity in the optic nerve as light is shined in the frog's eye. So basically as the light gets brighter, the noise from the detector gets more frequent (he even compares it to going from a rattlesnake hiss sound to a buzzer). The interesting thing that I am confused about is the following lines:

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"I am leaving out a lot of fascinating neurobiology here to stay on point. But for accuracy, it is important to add that neurons in

I'm not a physics major but looking at posts about radioactivity, and I'm wondering how Carbon is able to turn into Nitrogen. It emits an electron but where does one neutron become a proton? im super confused

So I've heard that during comas, patients sometimes can still sense things (through their eyes, ears) but cannot process or understand them because the signals don't pass through the area that is meant to process them. So I'm wondering is it purely cause the brain is too messed up from some brain trauma or is it a survival response to something?

So i see a lot of comments about how BCI at its current state is just a toy so I'm wondering if there are actually anyone here who is working on a BCI project in the industry (developing a product or part of the research and dev team for a company). If so, what's the project and what you do as part of it?

So i see a lot of comments about how BCI at its current state is just a toy so I'm wondering if there are actually anyone here who is working on a BCI project in the industry (developing a product or part of the research and dev team for a company). If so, what's the project and what you do as part of it?

Hello everyone, so brain computer interface is a field that I believe will be the future (there's just soo many applications and so many people could use these products). My ultimate goal is to put the mind onto a computer (yes, the "mind" as a subjective construct based only from the electrical signals, which I myself define to be a 4D "place" in the set of all the possible states imaginable but has the potential to feel real and be experienced because the brain can feed itself with fake percepts such as imagined visual data, auditory data, etc). My thought process for this is that, yes, you can have an idea of what the person is "sensing", because you can sense what he senses from his "sen

Hello everyone, so brain computer interface is a field that I believe will be the future (there's just soo many applications and so many people could use these products). My ultimate goal is to put the mind onto a computer (yes, the "mind" as a subjective construct based only from the electrical signals, which I myself define to be a 4D "place" in the set of all the possible states imaginable but has the potential to feel real and be experienced because the brain can feed itself with fake percepts such as imagined visual data, auditory data, etc). My thought process for this is that, yes, you can have an idea of what the person is "sensing", because you can sense what he senses from his "sen

Hi everyone! I'm a beginner in electrical/electronics. I am going about with my self study sessions but I'm looking for a buddy to study electronics and electrical engineering with as well, preferably someone who is already on the industry. My current mode of studying the subject is by starting from the very basics (history, physics, and then eventually electronics). I'm planning to have a daily (nightly actually) session with my buddy to discuss and explain everything we have learned from that day because I think that's how we can solidify knowledge in our minds.

My preferred mode of communication is discord. If anyone's interested, hit me up :)