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How technology has inspired neuroscientists to reimagine the brain
It’s difficult to talk about the human brain without inadvertently talking about computers. “I’m still processing,” you might say, or “Could we do a quick download about your findings?” Then there’s the favorite phrase of office workers who are stretched too thin: “I don’t have the bandwidth.” There’s a reason computer metaphors are peppered across […]
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Op-Ed: Why we should worry about Big Tech’s investment in a new brain technology
This July scientists reported using a neural implant in a man’s brain to restore his ability to communicate. The man, known as Pancho, has been partially paralyzed and unable to produce intelligible speech since suffering a severe stroke in 2003. The new technology records Pancho’s brain activity with an array of electrodes, analyzes the activity […]
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