{"id":410,"date":"2005-01-26T18:15:59","date_gmt":"2005-01-27T00:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=410"},"modified":"2005-01-26T15:17:23","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T21:17:23","slug":"rat-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2005\/01\/26\/rat-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"Rat Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm, there have been a lot of rat-brain stories lately&#8230;<br \/>\nNo, really, there have been a lot of stories about experiments done with rat brains.   First, there was the story about the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2004\/12\/07\/rat_brain_flies_jet\/\">scientists in Florida who got a rat brain to pilot an aircraft<\/a>.  Then, there was a story about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2004\/12\/16\/rat_brained_android\/\">the android run by a rat brain.  <\/a>  But, when I got really got me thinking was when I saw this article about how <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsisfree.com\/iclick\/i,67270165,1439,f\/\">rats can tell the difference between two languages.<\/a><br \/>\nTaken separately, they don&#8217;t seem like a big deal, but, what happens when you combine them together into a single package?  How long before we see these freakish things on the battlefield?  Truth is stranger than fiction.  But, you know what?  A science-fiction author predicted this kind of thing back in the early 80&#8217;s.  Yep, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joecliffordfaust.com\/\">Joe Clifford-Faust<\/a>, author of &#8220;Company Man&#8221;.  He didn&#8217;t get much attention back then, I thought, but he sure seems right on the money with his predictions.  Makes you wonder, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm, there have been a lot of rat-brain stories lately&#8230; No, really, there have been a lot of stories about experiments done with rat brains. First, there was the story about the scientists in Florida who got a rat brain to pilot an aircraft. Then, there was a story about the android run by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,29,27,14,28,30],"tags":[579,237],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criticism-marginalia-and-notes","category-fantastic-and-surreal","category-fun","category-news-and-current-events","category-science-and-technology","category-science-fiction","tag-florida","tag-joe-clifford-faust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}