When the device and Leggett began to work together, a new person emerged—a de-novo identity, a symbiosis of machine and mind…

We expect our first application to be computer control for people with spinal cord injury. There are many other potential future applications for the Link. These include restoring motor and sensory function and the treatment of neurological disorders

Is thought just a program?
Will Artificial Intelligence Ever Live Up to Its Hype?

Rather than speak of a group mind, it may thus be more appropriate to consider a beehive as a special kind of singular mind, albeit one that is spatially distributed over many (insect) bodies.

Computers are only prostheses; they no more do calculations than clocks tell the time. Clocks help us to tell the time, butthey don’t do it by themselves

Logical laws are identical with natural laws of thought. Logic is … a physics of thought, otherwise it is nothing

Neural computers do not execute typical machine instructions of digital computers unless they are made to emulate the behavior of physical neural networks

Sensations are received by a certain definite number of sensor nerves, which constitute the only means we possess of obtaining a knowledge of the external world …

New discoveries, new technologies, new social arrangements in the external world erupt into our lives in the form of increased turnover rates.
They set the stage for that potentially devastating social illness—future shock.

The resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.