RajScribes: Off-the-Table

Brain Machine Interfacing (BMI)

Last week, I happened to get the chance to participate in a session of Sri Lanka Association for Artificial Intelligence (SLAAI) in the University of Kelaniya. The session went on for an entire day and the experience I'd gained was immense. Eventhough AI is not my domain, The interesting nature of that technology is more than enough to attract the attention of seekers. The BMI technology was introduced in one of the session events and it was good enough to grab the attention of the entire audience.

BMI or BCI (Brain Computer Interface) technology is the next breakthrough in technology. From what I've found, the technology is still tested and not commercially available. However, this technology paves way for a whole range of devices and systems to be designed though it brings the human much closer to being a machine. From a social context, you can view it as the step that may lead to the machine's dominion over humans cuz this machine interaction is directly with the human brain.

It is obviously marvellous to observe a machine behaving according to brain waves (or signals) so that as in the example, when the brain signals to move the human hand, the mechanical hand will also receive tha signal to move its hand. this technology will be revolutionary when released to public. Let us wait and observe when the technology advance and new breakthroughs made, where it may lead the humanity...

H A P P Y 2 0 1 1 !

I've started blogging again and plan to do it in a regular basis since I personally think I might have more things to share around in 2011 with significance.

I Will be continuing my personal blog here while starting a new blog at pub•débug for my profession related posts.

I was at the church mass last night and would like to share the wonderful message delivered by the preach. It was based on 2 stories from the

bible, The parable of Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32) and The parable of the vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16).

The message was about jealousy, comparison and unsatisfaction. The examples were the eldest son in the parable of prodigal son and the workers of earliest hours in the parable of the vineyard. We always have more than we need, but we are always concerned about the things that others have. Always step on someone's head and climb up. No matter how good we think of ourselves, each one of us have been in this situation more than once in our lives. We try to justify it, in the sense, the elder son's complain was logically correct, "Father I've always served you, I've never betrayed you, but you haven't given me a goat to be merry with my friends" and the early workers complain was true, "We worked more hours than them but why do we receive equally?".

However, in both cases, comparison, jealousy leading to unsatisfaction was evident. When you see someone getting more than you when you already have enough but still think that you should have gotten more, when it should be an innocent sin that leads to dangerous consequences. The father's reply was, "Son, everything I have is for you, your brother was lost and now he has

returned. So we should joy with him" and the Vineyard owner's reply was, "I gave you the price I promised and you should be satisfied with it".

Have a moment of thought, how many times have you eavesdropped even on your friends to compare, the be unsatisfied and get jealous finally leading to cracks in your relation?

Lets try to change ourselves and determine to give meaning to our lives in this wrapped out new year!

So let the year twenty eleven be declared as the year of promoting positive thinking and adding values to our lives +++++

GOD Bless You!