{"id":642799,"date":"2013-02-18T12:09:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T17:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=69620"},"modified":"2013-02-18T12:09:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T17:09:43","slug":"7-talks-on-monkeys-and-7-talks-on-mind-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/642799","title":{"rendered":"7 talks on monkeys, and 7 talks on mind control"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"monkey-brain\"Miguel Nicolelis begins today\u2019s talk<\/a> by showing you what a brainstorm looks and sounds like.<\/p>\n

\"MiguelMiguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is 100 brain cells firing,\u201d says Nicolelis. \u201cEverything that defines what human nature is comes from these storms that roll over the hills and valleys of our brains and define our memories, our beliefs, our feelings, our plans for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

In this talk, given at TEDMed, Nicolelis describes how his team created what they call a \u201cbrain machine interface\u201d which uses censors to listen to brainstorms, extract their motor messages, translate them into digital commands and send them to artificial device to reproduce movement. What does this mean? A monkey, named Aurora, whose brainwaves controlled, first, a robotic arm that played video games for her and, next, a human-like avatar six times her size on the other side of the world.<\/p>\n

To hear more about how this works, and the implications it could have for those who\u2019ve lost motor function — as well as for us all — watch this mind-bending talk<\/a>. Here, more talks on monkeys and brain control.<\/p>\n

Talks on monkeys:<\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. Isabel Behncke: Evolution\u2019s gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Lauren Brent: Watching monkeys make friends<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: The gentle genius of bonobos<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Spencer Wells builds a family tree for humanity<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Jane Goodall helps humans and animals live together<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Talks on mind control:<\/b><\/p>\n

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    1. Tan Le: A headset that reads your brain waves<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Ariel Garten: Know thyself, with a brain scanner<\/a><\/li>\n
    3. Jos\u00e9 del R. Mill\u00e1n: Mind-controlled machines<\/a><\/li>\n
    4. Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains<\/a><\/li>\n
    5. Rebecca Saxe: How brains make moral judgments<\/a><\/li>\n
    6. Kwabena Boahen on a computer that works like the brain<\/a><\/li>\n
    7. Ed Boyden: A light switch for neurons<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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