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

Thought is an adaptive brain-activity …

But you comprehend the result ? … Man’s complete triumph over disease by this process of dissolution and rehabilitation

Whereas the notion of a “correct” computation is unproblematic … The notion of a “good” translation is ridden with problems …

What do we mean by “thinking”? What are the technical requirements on the machine? Does it need to process information in the same way that humans do? Massively parallel, biochemically, etc. like a human brain?

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? …

The Navy said the perceptron would be the first non-living mechanism capable of receiv­ing, recognizing and identifying its surroundings without any human training or control

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joys, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. [… ] And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us […] All these things we endure from the brain, when it is not healthy

Developers did not want its appearance to be over-human, as this would “encourage false expectations with regard to its capabilities” for users…

Once incorporated into a body, then, a prosthesis is no longer merely an object, in the sense that we can no longer straightforwardly deny that it has or plays a role in a person’s subjectivity