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Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons.

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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.

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I have no military application in my research. You know, we are all involved into rehabilitation medicine.

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We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another through electrical signals.

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Eventually, brain implants will become as common as heart implants. I have no doubt about that.

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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.

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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.

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The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We want to see and measure storms - brainstorms, that is.

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It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.

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

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Biography

Nationality: Brazilian

Type: Scientist

Born: March 7th, 1961

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