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The 15th Annual Discover Magazine |
JOHN DONOGHUE |
A cool, well-organized mind may be essential for parsing data, but sighting—and clearing—a new scientific frontier depends on a kind of stubborn, dreamy get-up-and-go. All five Discover Award winners for 2004 have weathered doubts about their vision, and each has countered those doubts with steady progress and impressive innovation. And they enjoyed themselves along the way. Meet one of the winners who had the ideas—and tested them. John Donoghue hopes his research in fundamental neuroscience will lead to devices that can help people who have lost the ability to move their limbs. On whether creating a brain-machine interface will open the door to mind control: |
For the complete Discover article go to: ttp://www.discover.com/issues/nov-04/ |
“We do that all the time already. Advertising is mind control. Even pharmaceutical agents are a form of mind control. When people have behaviors that deviate extremely far from the norm, they are given medications that bring their mind back into the realm of behavior that we call normal. So we do it now. If a child were to have a seizure and became unconscious because of the seizure, and we controlled his mind so that he didn't have seizures, that would be a wonderful thing. We want to do that.” |
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| Posted 10-15-04 |
