Research Quotes by Miguel Nicolelis

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

— 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

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

— Miguel Nicolelis

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

— 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, you could…

— Miguel Nicolelis

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

— Miguel Nicolelis

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

— Miguel Nicolelis

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

— Miguel Nicolelis

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

— Miguel Nicolelis

We basically created a computational unit out of two brains.

— 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 going to.

— 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 a stadium…

— Miguel Nicolelis