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Even two of humanity’s most intimate possessions – a sense of self and a body image – are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain’s mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second’s notice.
The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We want to see and measure storms – brainstorms, that is.
A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it’s not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that’s very intriguing.
Eventually, brain implants will become as common as heart implants. I have no doubt about that.
There are several patients – there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the brain or in the periphery, in the inner ear, to restore neurological functions or to control diseases like Parkinson’s disease.
It’s not telepathy. It’s not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.
We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don’t need to just play soccer.
Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman’s paintings to Mozart’s symphonies and Einstein’s view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons.
We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another through electrical signals.
I have no military application in my research. You know, we are all involved into rehabilitation medicine.
It’s the first time an exoskeleton has been controlled by brain activity and offered feedback to the patients. Doing a demonstration in a stadium is something very much outside our routine in robotics. It’s never been done before.
We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to record the electrical signals produced by neurons simultaneously.
The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we’re coming from and what we’re going to.
With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.
We want to galvanize people’s imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.
