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 revisiting an episode on No joke Telepathy.

Today explained, I'm Sean Ramos-Firm, I'm joined by Jonathan Moons, freelance science

journalist and we're going to talk about a guy whose name we actually don't know.

No one really knows his name because for privacy reasons it's sort of kept secret.

So he's the star of this story.

Because diagnosed with amiotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, this is a condition that entails

sort of losing brain cells in your brain and spinal cord sort of degenerate over time.

And these are related to motor controls.

You sort of lose the ability to move and you quite quickly end up quite immobilized,

sort of totally paralyzed.

And so this person, he was in his state diagnosed 2015 and eventually he starts to lose all

of this motor control, but he's still able to communicate with his eyes.

How do you communicate with your eyes?

...