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The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.

From Miguel Nicolelis

We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.

From Miguel Nicolelis

In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors and, ultimately, thinking. Instead, the true functional unit of the central nervous system is a population of neurons, or neural ensembles or cell assemblies.

From Miguel Nicolelis

We cannot even predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net. In theory, you could imagine that a combination of brains could provide solutions that individual brains cannot achieve by themselves.

From Miguel Nicolelis

We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.

From Miguel Nicolelis

I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is outside the body, I cannot measure that. If you're talking about soul as human nature, the rank of spectrum of behaviors and reactions that we know humans produce under certain circumstances, that is measurable.

From Miguel Nicolelis

A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing.

From Miguel Nicolelis

We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to record the electrical signals produced by neurons simultaneously.

From Miguel Nicolelis

We basically created a computational unit out of two brains.

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