The brain actually is two different systems that are operating together. What Cindy and I work on access as those electrical signals. If the biochemistry sole purpose is to make an electrical signal, you can just put in the electrical signal because we got that. We kind of can. The thing is that it's a polite no, I think.
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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