Miguel Nicolelis
Miguel Nicolelis
Miguel Ângelo Laporta Nicolelis, M.D., P.hD, is a Brazilian scientist and physician, best known for his pioneering work in "reading monkey thought". He and his colleagues at Duke University implanted electrode arrays into a monkey's brain that were able to detect the monkey's motor intent and thus able to control reaching and grasping movements performed by a robotic arm. This was possible by decoding signals of hundreds of neurons recorded in volitional areas of the cerebral cortex while the monkey...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 March 1961
CountryBrazil
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.
It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.
A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing.
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.
You could have all the computer chips ever in the world and you won’t create a consciousness.
Impossible is just the possible that someone has not put enough effort to make it come true.
We basically created a computational unit out of two brains.