Studying the brain's response

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thumb

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could be studied by Professor Tamar Mak

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it's not claustrophobic at all in here

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my name is Tamal megin and I'm a

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professor of cognitive neuroscience and

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my role is to run the lab that we call

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the plasticity Lab in Cambridge

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University I got this big rant meant to

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help me start establishing the first

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frontiers of human augmentation

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specifically allowing people to have

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extra body parts a colleague of mine

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told me he just watched this video of

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this extra robotic thumb that just looks

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amazing I've asked my student who was

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running the project at the time if she

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can try hunt down this person Danny

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Claude and that's how we start working

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together the interesting thing about the

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body and the brain is that you can't

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change one without the other when we're

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thinking about adding extra body parts

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or replacing body parts we are

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immediately implicating the brain if we

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could harness this technology in a

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thoughtful and responsible way we could

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really offer an incredible new

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opportunity for Humanity to improve

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productivity since coming to Cambridge

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University how much has Danny's vision

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of the third thumb changed the

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fundamentals from the first prototype

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are definitely the same I certainly

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didn't think it would be so similar

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which I'm so quite impressed with and

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managed to