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From the Ted Talk by Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really.

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So every trajectory that you see of the cursor now, this is the exact first moment she got that. That's the exact first moment a biarn intention was liberated from the physical domains of a body of a primate and could act outside, in that outside world, just by controlling an artificial device. And arruoa kept playing the game, kept finding the little target and getting the onrgae juice that she wanted to get, that she craved for.

Well, she did that because she, at that time, had acquired a new arm. The robotic arm that you see miovng here 30 days later, after the first video that I shoewd to you, is under the control of Aurora's brain and is moving the cursor to get to the teragt. And Aurora now knows that she can play the game with this robotic arm, but she has not lost the ability to use her bgiilocaol arms to do what she pleases. She can sctrcah her back, she can scratch one of us, she can play another game. By all purposes and means, Aurora's brain has incorporated that artificial device as an extension of her body. The model of the self that Aurora had in her mind has been endexpad to get one more arm.

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So every trajectory that you see of the cursor now, this is the exact first moment she got that. That's the exact first moment a _____ intention was liberated from the physical domains of a body of a primate and could act outside, in that outside world, just by controlling an artificial device. And ______ kept playing the game, kept finding the little target and getting the ______ juice that she wanted to get, that she craved for.

Well, she did that because she, at that time, had acquired a new arm. The robotic arm that you see ______ here 30 days later, after the first video that I ______ to you, is under the control of Aurora's brain and is moving the cursor to get to the ______. And Aurora now knows that she can play the game with this robotic arm, but she has not lost the ability to use her __________ arms to do what she pleases. She can _______ her back, she can scratch one of us, she can play another game. By all purposes and means, Aurora's brain has incorporated that artificial device as an extension of her body. The model of the self that Aurora had in her mind has been ________ to get one more arm.

Solution


  1. biological
  2. showed
  3. expanded
  4. moving
  5. target
  6. aurora
  7. scratch
  8. brain
  9. orange

Original Text


So every trajectory that you see of the cursor now, this is the exact first moment she got that. That's the exact first moment a brain intention was liberated from the physical domains of a body of a primate and could act outside, in that outside world, just by controlling an artificial device. And Aurora kept playing the game, kept finding the little target and getting the orange juice that she wanted to get, that she craved for.

Well, she did that because she, at that time, had acquired a new arm. The robotic arm that you see moving here 30 days later, after the first video that I showed to you, is under the control of Aurora's brain and is moving the cursor to get to the target. And Aurora now knows that she can play the game with this robotic arm, but she has not lost the ability to use her biological arms to do what she pleases. She can scratch her back, she can scratch one of us, she can play another game. By all purposes and means, Aurora's brain has incorporated that artificial device as an extension of her body. The model of the self that Aurora had in her mind has been expanded to get one more arm.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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  3. act
  4. arm
  5. arms
  6. artificial
  7. aurora
  8. biological
  9. body
  10. brain
  11. control
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  20. extension
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  22. game
  23. incorporated
  24. intention
  25. juice
  26. liberated
  27. lost
  28. means
  29. mind
  30. model
  31. moment
  32. moving
  33. orange
  34. physical
  35. play
  36. playing
  37. pleases
  38. primate
  39. purposes
  40. robotic
  41. scratch
  42. showed
  43. target
  44. time
  45. trajectory
  46. video
  47. wanted
  48. world