Miguel Nicolelis Quotes

Brazilian - Scientist | March 7, 1961 -

We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another through electrical signals.

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With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.

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Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second's notice.

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We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.

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Eventually, brain implants will become as common as heart implants. I have no doubt about that.

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We cannot even predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net. In theory, you could imagine that a combination of brains could provide solutions that individual brains cannot achieve by themselves.

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The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We want to see and measure storms - brainstorms, that is.

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It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.

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We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.

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I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is outside the body, I cannot measure that. If you're talking about soul as human nature, the rank of spectrum of behaviors and reactions that we know humans produce under certain circumstances, that is measurable.

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The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.

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It's the first time an exoskeleton has been controlled by brain activity and offered feedback to the patients. Doing a demonstration in a stadium is something very much outside our routine in robotics. It's never been done before.

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