There's no Rosetta stone for people in your field to be able to just go, this is what this means. Because that would mean you'd have to localize it to every individual brain. Every person gets a whole calibration routine and they think about all these different movements. So are the motor cortices of the brain centrally located or they like other parts of workings of the brain where they're in different spots? Yeah.
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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