miguel nicolelis says research raises a key question that could radically change our relationship to the world around us do we really need a body to feel something. we talk to our patients you know the park music patients their work when we walk in project and they have ferial operate phantom sensations like fifty x. a skeleton is part of them. it touches on very big issues of what is to be human and one thing that most people be shocked to learn is that our assessor self is not limited to does body that we occupy our sense of self ends and the last layer of atoms controlled directly by our breath. not in the last layer of the skin. if this research
are enough optimists who believe it can be done and they re convinced that after the success of the coding the human genome the era of the connectome will soon. in the united states the connectome has become so fashionable that some neuroscientists are advancing the theory that we are our own connect own they believe our thoughts memories and feelings are in coded in the billions of possible ways neurons interact randall colonel specializes in computational neuroscience an area of research that aims to understand our brains with the help of computer models. he says our brain is like a super computer capable of managing the huge amount of information it in
a dog there s a little brain and i say yes our brain is a little bigger but first earthlike are things we can t understand and our own brains may be one of those things it cannot be understood by human beings. the presence of downloading the contents of our brains onto a machine will remain science fiction for a long time to come still fervent research is being conducted into the field new technologies continue to be developed that help advance brain research and more and more robots are built that are modeled on humans. no one can predict today where scientific progress will lead to more. who can say how human machines will be in fifty or one hundred years all. to wash the stench humans will become vika machines we may not be aware of it but when our day in the foundation for a new era an era in which slowly but surely the boundaries will blow up between
way and so if you say think apple you get similar brain activation patterns so this is this. new finding. that. we have this commonality in our brains it s not a random pattern that we all have it s systematic. the research has developed a program with which they could identify the phrase a subject was reading simply by analyzing the brain regions activated during reading. like here for example well actually to predict the center of it s unfair to criminal as you can see we get this clusters of high activation is because this is where we are as specialized in representing social interaction and also you will see another closer into right and this area inferring about those of people s mental state. because the senate has this kind of social emotional
brains may be one of those things that cannot be understood by human beings. the process of downloading the contents of our brains onto a machine will remain science fiction for a long time to come still fervent research is being conducted into the field new technologies continue to be developed that help advance brain research and more and more robots are built that are modeled on humans. no one could predict today where scientific progress will lead to more. who can say how human machines will be in fifty or one hundred years or to what extent humans will become like machines. we may not be aware of it but we re now laying the foundation for. a new era an era in which slowly but surely the boundaries will blow out between humankind and machine it s perhaps for.