Miguel Nicolelis

“Just follow the music”

— Miguel Nicolelis

We basically created a computational unit out of two brains.

— Miguel Nicolelis

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

— Miguel Nicolelis

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

— Miguel Nicolelis

The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We…

— Miguel Nicolelis

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

— Miguel Nicolelis

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

— Miguel Nicolelis

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

— Miguel Nicolelis

A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly,…

— Miguel Nicolelis

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

— Miguel Nicolelis

In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable…

— Miguel Nicolelis

Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge…

— Miguel Nicolelis

There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the…

— Miguel Nicolelis

We cannot even predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net. In theory,…

— Miguel Nicolelis

I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura…

— Miguel Nicolelis

It's the first time an exoskeleton has been controlled by brain activity and offered feedback to the patients. Doing a demonstration in…

— Miguel Nicolelis

Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations…

— Miguel Nicolelis

You could have all the computer chips ever in the world and you won’t create a consciousness.

— Miguel Nicolelis

We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to record the electrical signals…

— Miguel Nicolelis

Impossible is just the possible that someone has not put enough effort to make it come true.

— Miguel Nicolelis

I have no military application in my research. You know, we are all involved into rehabilitation medicine.

— Miguel Nicolelis

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

— Miguel Nicolelis