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Wired-up brains will offer out-of-body experiences

By Miguel Nicolelis

18 May 2011

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Idoya could control CB-1, located thousands of miles away in Kyoto, Japan, just by imagining leg movements

(Image: Dr. Jan Moren/JST-ICORP Computational Brain Project)

With the right interface, our brains can adopt all sorts of prosthetics as our own – letting us escape our physical constraints

ANSWER quickly: what links the internet, the stock market, democratic elections, a perfect soccer play, the big bang theory, the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel and the iPad? Most people guess that the only possible link is they are all created by humans. While this is technically correct, it doesn’t credit the true creator of such macro structures and exquisite tools:…

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