A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing. — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains. — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You could have all the computer chips ever in the world and you won’t create a consciousness. — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another through electrical signals. — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer. — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
Impossible is just the possible that someone has not put enough effort to make it come true. — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have no military application in my research. You know, we are all involved into rehabilitation medicine. — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete. — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
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 from the… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
