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.
Interpretation
Our sense of self and body image are not fixed; they can change rapidly due to our brain's complex processes.
This quote by Miguel Nicolelis emphasizes the idea that our identity and perception of ourselves are not static. Instead, they are dynamic and influenced by neurological activity, suggesting that our understanding of who we are and how we perceive our bodies can shift in an instant, highlighting the malleability of human experience and self-perception.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions about mental health to emphasize the fluid nature of identity.
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.
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.
With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.
Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count -- / Festival of the Souls.
Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.
A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.
The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
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