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We thought if we could use our optical remote control to activate the cells of the Critic, we should be able, artificially, to nag the Actor into changing its policy.
As the baby hears a word in her language, the auditory areas light up, and then subsequently areas surrounding it that we think are related to coherence, getting the brain coordinated with its different areas, and causality, one brain area causing another to activate.
If we could activate cells, we could see what powers they can unleash, what they can initiate and sustain.
If we could turn on the electricity in one cell but not its neighbors, that'd give us the tool to activate and shut down these different cells to figure out what they do and how they contribute to the networks in which they're embedded.
But we activate different targets in the brain, using that optical fiber array I showed on the previous slide, in order to try and figure out which targets can cause the brain to overcome that memory of fear.
Their DNA starts to synthesize new proteins, which spill out and interact with adjacent nerves, and they start releasing their neurotransmitters, and those neurotransmitters spill out and activate adjacent glial cells, and so on and so forth, until what we have is a positive feedback loop.
We need some energy that's going to allow that to activate, allow our parts to be able to fold up from the program.
Because if you wave a block over the top of the detector, something you wouldn't ever think of to begin with, the detector will actually activate two out of three times.
Whereas, if you do the likely thing, put the block on the detector, it will only activate two out of six times.
So there's population A, there's population B, and then we activate the system, and protocell Bs, they're the blue ones, they all come together.
So we've been trying in our lab now to develop drugs that will activate this FOXO cell using human cells now in order to try and come up with drugs that will delay aging and age-related diseases.
After this, we wanted to see if we could implement this and automate the system, so we used the same system but we added a structure to it so we could activate the machine.
And we then thought to ourselves, with those big stores, I wonder if sunlight might activate those stores and release them from the skin, where the stores are about 10 times as big as what's in the circulation.
Could the sun activate those stores into the circulation, and there in the circulation do its good things for your cardiovascular system?
So a typical cell, like the neurons in our brain, has a region called the dendrites that receives input, and that input sums together and will produce action potentials that run down the axon and then activate all the output regions of the neuron.
Moreover, once we can do that, we can actually activate specific neurons or we can destroy or inhibit the activity of those neurons.
On the other hand, if we activate a group of neurons and we find that that produces the behavior, we can conclude that those neurons are sufficient for the behavior.
When I think about moving my legs, neural signals from my central nervous system pass through my nerves and activate muscles within my residual limbs.
Everybody was really excited about Curiosity, and that had this big plutonium battery on board that has plutonium-238, which actually has a higher specific activity than the low-enriched uranium fuel of these molten salt reactors, which means that the effects would be negligible, because you launch it cold, and when it gets into space is where you actually activate this reactor.
So the original vision was to have a keyboard hanging from the boat attached to a computer, and the divers and dolphins would activate the keys on the keypad and happily exchange information and request toys from each other.
And the diver there is going to activate the scarf sound to request the scarf.
And today, we hope to convince you that now we are actually able to activate a memory in the brain at the speed of light.
First, you find and label a memory in the brain, and then you activate it with a switch.
SR: So what do you think, Xu? Could we use, let's say, pharmacological drugs to activate or inactivate brain cells?
You can think of channelrhodopsin as a sort of light-sensitive switch that can be artificially installed in brain cells so that now we can use that switch to activate or inactivate the brain cell simply by clicking it, and in this case we click it on with pulses of light.
But what if we put the mouse in this new box but at the same time, we activate the fear memory using lasers just like we did before?
We were looking at this mouse here trying to activate a memory for the first time using our technique.
XL: Nowadays, people in the lab and people in other groups all over the world are using similar methods to activate or edit memories, whether that's old or new, positive or negative, all sorts of memories so that we can understand how memory works.
We do know from fMRI studies that these hallucinations activate the same brain areas as sight, areas that are not activated by imagination.
That’s likely because they activate receptors in a broad range of brain areas, including the cortical regions for all the senses.
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