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🗓️ 7 January 2013

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Imagine moving things with your mind. Not with telekinesis, but with the future tools of brain science. Meet a pioneer in the field of computer-to-brain connection and discover the blurry boundary where the mind ends and the machine begins. Plus, how new technology is sharpening the “real” in virtual reality. And, whether our devotion to digital devices is changing what it means to be human. Guests: • Miguel Nicolelis – Director for the Center for Neuroengineering at Duke University, and author of Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines and How it Will Change our Lives • Jeremy Bailenson – Director of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University and co-author of Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution • Jim Blascovich – Psychologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara and co-author of Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution • Sherry Turkle – Professor of social studies of science and technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.6	podcasts. What's your name? Armand? Armand and how old you? I'm 11 years old?
1:02.0	11 years old and you seem transfixed by what's happening at this table here
1:07.2	Now I can't quite see because it's right around the corner. What's going on? Can you explain it to me? This man right here is saying what the brain does for you.
1:15.5	Well, that's great.
1:16.0	As long as he's not holding onto an actual brain, right?
1:18.3	He's just describing it, right?
1:19.9	It's actually a real brain.
1:21.5	From a real brain. Yeah, it's from a guy who died and he
1:25.1	donated it to science. So they preserved it in something called like alcohol
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