What you're hearing right now is a German guy asking his wife to go get a mixer to puree

some soup for him.

The reason it sounds kind of funky is because he's asking her using only his thoughts.

You're hearing real-time activity, brain activity, that this person now has to sort of actively

shape, actively modulate through his own mind.

A totally paralyzed person asked his wife to puree some soup using only his thoughts.

That request, thanks to a brain implant, manifested not in words but notes.

And that's his sort of most basic form of communication, despite being in a completely

locked in state.

And today explained, we're getting closer to telepathy with fully locked in paralyzed people.

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I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses.

I love walking with the dog for long periods of time, hopefully it's snowing, and you've

got to wrap up warm.

So I think a frozen nose is sweaty armpits because you're wrapped up so warm but then you're

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