A brain machine interface system is when you're connecting it to something outside the body. It's replacing that descending pathway with a machine. That's what the neck electrode nodules were for in Frankenstein. You bring something back to life that we had no movement. I mean, it's more like fixing broken wires.
Are we nearing the singularity? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn about brain machine interfaces and prosthetics you can control with your mind, with biomedical engineer Dr. Cindy Chestek and neurosurgeon Dr. Parag Patil
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