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  1. Is The Brain The Ultimate Computer Interface?

    Will we be able to jack into the brain and upload helicopter instructions, like in The Matrix? We already have the technology to control a prosthetic arm or Twitter with thoughts alone. Dishes of neurons can control a robot. And scientists have created a working artificial memory chip in rats.

    From http://sxsw.com/node/4956

    —Huffduffed by irkman 2 years ago

  2. Live From The NYPL: Oliver Sacks - Hallucinations

    The Robert B. Silvers Lecture. Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks examines how the normal brain, if deprived of perceptual input, may generate illusory sensations—as with the visual hallucinations of the blind, or the musical hallucinations of the deaf.

    http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/pepdesc.cfm?id=5843

    —Huffduffed by irkman 3 years ago