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.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that interconnected brains can produce insights and solutions beyond individual capabilities.
Miguel Nicolelis emphasizes the potential of collaboration among brains, likening their interaction to a 'brain-net'. This concept suggests that the emergent properties that arise from collective thinking and sharing of perspectives can lead to innovative solutions that might not be accessible to solitary thinking. It highlights the power of teamwork and interconnectedness in problem-solving.
In practice
In a team meeting discussing complex projects, this quote can illustrate the importance of collaboration.
Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second's notice.
It's the first time an exoskeleton has been controlled by brain activity and offered feedback to the patients. Doing a demonstration in a stadium is something very much outside our routine in robotics. It's never been done before.
We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.
With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.
I try to do my science in a moral way, and, I believe that, ideally, science should be looked upon as something that helps us understand our role in the universe.
During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary
Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it’s also a soaring spiritual experience.
The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.
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