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So instead of inserting a wire into one spot of the brain, re-engineer the brain itself so that some of its neural elements become responsive to diffusely broadcast signals such as a flash of light.
Such an approach would literally, in a flash of light, overcome many of the obstacles to discovery.
Whenever a flash of light hits the receptor, the pore opens, an electrical current is switched on, and the neuron fires electrical impulses.
And you can see here that the flash of light has exactly the same effect.
Now to make sure that this was no reaction of the fly to a flash it could see, Susana did a simple but brutally effective experiment.
We have created such a situation, artificially, by turning on the critic with a flash of light.
And I have that kind of flash sometimes.
When a neutrino hits a water molecule it emits a kind of blue light, a flash of blue light, and by looking for this blue light, you can essentially understand something about the neutrino and then, indirectly, something about the dark matter that might have created this neutrino.
The animal goes to the right-hand side and pokes his nose there and gets a flash of blue light every time he does it.
A flash of light occurs.
And the same tone is going to play, and the light is going to flash again.
The flash is like a scream for help.
So I teamed up with my good friend Ricardo Cabello, also known as Mr. doob, who's a much better programmer than I am, and he made this amazing Flash drawing tool.
One is a flash of white light.
Did you think that was a bicycle when I showed it to you at the first flash?
But you're a slave of that first flash.
There are going to be times when someone makes one expression while masking another that just kind of leaks through in a flash.
But no more Flash boxes.
Just flash it, scare the guy.
So a single idea, from the human mind, it could start a groundswell, it could be a flash point for a movement and it can actually rewrite our future.
Most of these universes could never support life, and might flash in and out of existence in a nanosecond.
He would stand triumphantly in front of it, and it would flash lights like a lightning bolt.
And the indicator box makes the lights flash.
The lights flash and trick the lions into thinking I was walking around the cowshed, but I was sleeping in my bed.
When one morning, years after the crash, I stepped onto stone and the underside of my left foot felt the flash of cold, nerves at last awake, it was exhilarating, a gust of snow.
But instead of practicing with flash cards, there may be an interesting way that we can hack our memory while we sleep.
The aggressor in a fight will quickly and sharply flash bright black on his arms when he's about to initiate a fight.
I guess you could call this a lifesaving flash mob, and it works.
So if you were watching this whole thing from a hill, ideally, far away, what you'd see is a bright flash of light that would fade over a few seconds, followed by a blast wave spreading out, shredding trees and houses as it moves away from the stadium, and then eventually a mushroom cloud rising up over the ruined city.
When a female sees a flash from an especially attractive male, she'll aim her lantern in his direction, and give him a flash back.
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