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The Shaper/Mechanist stories by Bruce Sterling use the term "wirehead" in the broader sense of people or cyborgs who can link their minds to computers or other technology. [9] In The Terminal Man (1972) by Michael Crichton, forty electrodes are implanted into the brain of the character Harold Franklin "Harry" Benson to control his seizures ...
These short stories were published in The Ship Who Sang collection. 1979 – Mayflies, by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. A human brain is reprogrammed to serve as a ship's computer for a colonization trip expected to take 15 years (ship's time). The original human personality, which the shipbuilders had believed to have been erased, reasserts itself.
It is distinct from the concept of transferring a consciousness from one human body to another. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is sometimes applied to a single person and other times to an entire society. [ 4 ] Recurring themes in these stories include whether the computerized mind is truly conscious , and if so, whether identity is preserved. [ 5 ]
All people have prejudices, but learning more about them could help keep them in check. Crowd image via www.shutterstock.com.Humans are highly social creatures. Our brains have evolved to allow us ...
The book is a collection of stories of doctors and patients showing that the human brain is capable of undergoing change, including stories of recovering use of paralyzed body parts, deaf people learning to hear, and others getting relief from pain using exercises to retrain neural pathways.
The first story is one in which a man shoots himself in the head, but misses his brain completely, blowing part of his skull off and exposing his brain. He went to the doctor, who in turn pressed the man's brain with a spatula to get a reaction out of him, which he did. Paul Broca (language) is also discussed, a linguist and a neuroscientist ...
He calls it his “origin story”: his debut memoir, Source Code, being published on Tuesday, Feb. 4. The book, the first installment of a planned trilogy, covers Gates’ childhood and young ...
The Tell-Tale Brain is Ramachandran at his best, a profoundly intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain." [5] The scientist Allan Snyder said of the book: "A masterpiece. The best of its kind and beautifully crafted. Alluring story telling, building to a penetrating understanding of what it is to be uniquely human.