An implant that decodes speech and gesture at once, and what it cannot do
A UCSF team has shown that one sheet of electrodes can decode attempted speech and attempted gesture at the same time in people with paralysis. The vocabularies are tiny and the claims modest. The philosophical problem is sharper than the headlines: who holds the record of an intention that was never carried out.
David Chalmers, Andy Clark, Miranda Fricker, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, John Searle







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