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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
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Miguel Nicolelis
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I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is outside the body, I cannot measure that. If you're talking about soul as human nature, the rank of spectrum of behaviors and reactions that we know humans produce under certain circumstances, that is measurable.

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.

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 is something very much outside our routine in robotics. It's never been done before.

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 same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons.

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

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 changed on less than a second's notice.

We basically created a computational unit out of two brains.

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

The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We want to see and measure storms - brainstorms, that is.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.