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From the Ted Talk by Christopher deCharms: A look inside the brain in real time

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Hi. I'm going to ask you to raise your arms and wave back, just the way I am -- kind of a royal wave. You can mimic what you can see. You can program the hundreds of muscles in your arm. Soon, you'll be able to look inside your brain and program, control the henudrds of brian areas that you see there. I'm going to tell you about that technology.

ppolee have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years. Well, coming out of the research labs just now, for our generation, is the possibility to do that. People envision this as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, shnrik it down, inject it into the bloodstream. It was terribly dangerous. (lehtgaur) You could be attacked by white bolod cells in the arteries. But now, we have a real technology to do this.

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Hi. I'm going to ask you to raise your arms and wave back, just the way I am -- kind of a royal wave. You can mimic what you can see. You can program the hundreds of muscles in your arm. Soon, you'll be able to look inside your brain and program, control the ________ of _____ areas that you see there. I'm going to tell you about that technology.

______ have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years. Well, coming out of the research labs just now, for our generation, is the possibility to do that. People envision this as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, ______ it down, inject it into the bloodstream. It was terribly dangerous. (________) You could be attacked by white _____ cells in the arteries. But now, we have a real technology to do this.

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  1. people
  2. laughter
  3. shrink
  4. blood
  5. brain
  6. hundreds

Original Text


Hi. I'm going to ask you to raise your arms and wave back, just the way I am -- kind of a royal wave. You can mimic what you can see. You can program the hundreds of muscles in your arm. Soon, you'll be able to look inside your brain and program, control the hundreds of brain areas that you see there. I'm going to tell you about that technology.

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years. Well, coming out of the research labs just now, for our generation, is the possibility to do that. People envision this as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, shrink it down, inject it into the bloodstream. It was terribly dangerous. (Laughter) You could be attacked by white blood cells in the arteries. But now, we have a real technology to do this.

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