The brain rewires itself from stroke victims and for other sort of brain can be opportunistic so that it doesn't completely lose abilities. There's really like two schools of thought in how to do a brain machine interface. We're just going to use lots of algorithms, you know, same things they use for autonomous vehicles.
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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