Word: monkeyism
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...frontier when their Volkswagen was surrounded by some 50 highly nervous rebel troops carrying pangas, clubs and spears, their uniforms ranging from European suit coats to shorts and grass skirts. From their midst emerged a goateed man known only as "Major," clad in green fatigue pants and a splendid monkey-skin bush hat. Commissars or no commissars, the major was not going to let the newsmen continue into the rebel area, angrily denounced Americans because the T-28 planes had attacked only that morning. Offered a pacifying cigarette, the major drew himself up with great dignity and replied, "No, thank...
...activity indicates that the brain is functioning on a high level, reacting to signals that seem to come from its lost ears and eyes. But Dr. White is not sure whether the brain is asleep or awake. Does the brain believe it is still alive and in the original monkey? Is it frightened by loud sounds and bright flashes of light? Does it send desperate escape orders to nonexistent limbs...
...have been made so far to find out whether the isolated brain functions logically, sizing up a situation on the evidence of its sense nerves, consulting its memory and giving appropriate orders to its muscle nerves. Such experiments might be made by using food rewards to train a living monkey to perform a simple action, such as reaching an arm forward when it hears a set number of familiar sounds...
...When the monkey is fully trained, its brain would be isolated, and the sound signal given to its auditory nerve. If electrical signals appear in nerves that formerly led to arm muscles, this will mean that the brain's memories of past rewards are making it try to reach for food with an arm that no longer exists...
Still far in the future is another favorite idea of science fiction: using the isolated brains as cheap, efficient computers to do routine jobs. But if still living human brains ever become available, Dr. White's monkey techniques would probably keep them alive, and there might be jobs for them...