Brain infusion: Alzet vs.programmable and refillable pump (one surgery) for behavioral studies?

12 December 2013 1 9K Report

I have heard of new refillable and programmable (start, stop,dur) for chronic brain infusion in small animals. Do you have any experience with this?

Thanks.

Bhakti Niskama Shanta

Our article published in peer-reviewed Journal "Communicative & Integrative Biology". A few major points discussed in the paper:

(1) Brain is not the source of consciousness.

(2) Consciousness is ubiquitous in all living organisms, starting from bacteria to human beings.

(3) The individual cells in the multicellular organisms are also individually cognitive entities.

(4) Proposals like “artificial life”, “artificial intelligence”, “sentient machines” and so on are only fairytales because no designer can produce an artifact with the properties like internal teleology (Naturzweck) and formative force (bildende Kraft).

(5) The material origin of life and objective evolution are only misconceptions that biologists must overcome.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19420889.2015.1085138

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