Miguel Nicolelis Quotes & Sayings

“Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second's notice.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.”

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

“We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.”

“There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the brain or in the periphery, in the inner ear, to restore neurological functions or to control diseases like Parkinson's disease.”

“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.”