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...different points of the year, they were each limited by injuries. Bayne played most of the year with his arm in a brace, the result of a previous career-threatening injury...
...spinal cord damage (which prevents brain signals from reaching their limbs), to control their own biological limbs. It could also give people extended senses, allowing them to have virtual limbs in cyberspace or robotic limbs in the physical world. "The brain knows that it has an arm and a hand because it is connected to these things and gets feedback from them," Nicolelis says. "The same could be true for robotic or virtual appendages. If you control a remote hand that senses objects and sends tactile sensations back to your brain, it behaves as if it's your own hand...
...incorporate prosthetics into its body map requires feedback: the brain will only become aware of its new limbs if they make their presence known. To see how the monkeys might respond to this kind of anatomical extension, Nicolelis is creating a feedback loop between the monkeys and the robotic arm. In the next experiments the monkeys will have sensors attached to their bodies, so that the robotic arm delivers tactile sensations directly to their skin. When the monkey's brain waves impel the robotic arm to grasp a piece of fruit, for example, the animal will be able to feel...
...brain without dramatically invasive surgery, so human experimentation is unlikely. And there's an intriguing risk in the realm of brain-computer interfaces. What would happen if the process was reversed? The signals that are routed from the monkey's brain through the computer to control the robotic arm could be sent back to the monkey - to control its behavior. Implants in humans would face strong opposition unless the possibility of this kind of mind control could be eliminated, which so far seems impossible to achieve...
...took the bloodiest single outrage of the nine-month intifada to wake Yasser Arafat up to the bankruptcy of his strategy. And it was a rude awakening at that, as European Union diplomats twisted his arm until he cracked and went on Palestinian TV and, speaking in Arabic, condemned the terrorist attack that killed 20 Israelis outside a Tel Aviv nightclub on Friday and ordered his forces to cease firing...