The brain is always changing, so you're always trying to hit a moving target. And also those thoughts do have, I don't know how to put it. It's not a tangible quality, but a measurable quality for like, I read this study about how they put these people in an MRI and they did things just thought-wise and their brain lit up like it was actually happening. So then how do you account for that kind of neuroplasticity?
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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