
From the Vault: The Livewired Brain with David Eagleman
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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Controlling External Devices With Your Thoughts
i think it's going to be no time at all before we really start controlling external devices with our thoughts. A monkey a uses his motor cortex to make a robot walk. So they're driving a robotic arm with their thoughts. It is essentially an extension of our body. What it means is that that'll become us. All rigt. And i think this, by the way, why we understand our reflections in a mirror to be us,. Because you move and it moves, and so you're driving what you're seeing over there.
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