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And in that image there, you see a variety of islands of what I call image-making regions in the brain.

So think about how wonderfully convenient and lazy the brain is.

We generate brain maps of the body's interior and use them as the reference for all other maps.

And the final thing is that there is a very tight coupling between the regulation of our body within the brain and the body itself, unlike any other coupling.

So for example, I'm making images of you, but there's no physiological bond between the images I have of you as an audience and my brain.

However, there is a close, permanently maintained bond between the body regulating parts of my brain and my own body.

There is the brain stem in between the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord.

This is so specific that, for example, if you look at the part that is covered in red in the upper part of the brain stem, if you damage that as a result of a stroke, for example, what you get is coma or vegetative state, which is a state, of course, in which your mind disappears, your consciousness disappears.

You have, in effect, lost consciousness when you have damage to that red section of the brain stem.

But if you consider the green part of the brain stem, nothing like that happens.

So in that green component of the brain stem, if you damage it, and often it happens, what you get is complete paralysis, but your conscious mind is maintained.

It's just to tell you that in that red section of the brain stem, there are, to make it simple, all those little squares that correspond to modules that actually make brain maps of different aspects of our interior, different aspects of our body.

Look at "cerebral cortex," look at "brain stem," look at "body," and you get the picture of the interconnectivity in which you have the brain stem providing the grounding for the self in a very tight interconnection with the body.

You cannot have a conscious mind if you don't have the interaction between cerebral cortex and brain stem.

You cannot have a conscious mind if you don't have the interaction between the brain stem and the body.

Another thing that is interesting is that the brain stem that we have is shared with a variety of other species.

So throughout vertebrates, the design of the brain stem is very similar to ours, which is one of the reasons why I think those other species have conscious minds like we do.

The first two are shared with many, many other species, and they are really coming out largely of the brain stem and whatever there is of cortex in those species.

Why care if it is the brain stem or the cerebral cortex and how this is made?

I study how the brain processes information.

So you have an image, a retina, and a brain.

And the code is in the form of these patterns of electrical pulses that get sent up to the brain, and so the key thing is that the image ultimately gets converted into a code.

Like this pattern of pulses here actually means "baby's face," and so when the brain gets this pattern of pulses, it knows that what was out there was a baby's face, and if it got a different pattern it would know that what was out there was, say, a dog, or another pattern would be a house.

You have these patterns of pulses coming out of your eye every millisecond telling your brain what it is that you're seeing.

Until the only things that you have left are these cells here, the output cells, the ones that send the signals to the brain, but because of all that degeneration they aren't sending any signals anymore.

So, a solution to the problem, then, would be to build a device that could mimic the actions of that front-end circuitry and send signals to the retina's output cells, and they can go back to doing their normal job of sending signals to the brain.

And then the transducer then makes the output cells send the code on up to the brain, and the result is a retinal prosthetic that can produce normal retinal output.

So a completely blind retina, even one with no front-end circuitry at all, no photoreceptors, can now send out normal signals, signals that the brain can understand.

Now I just want to wrap up, and as I was mentioning earlier of course I have a lot of other data if you're interested, but I just wanted to give this sort of basic idea of being able to communicate with the brain in its language, and the potential power of being able to do that.

So it's different from the motor prosthetics where you're communicating from the brain to a device.

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