tommyla

I don't type well, and it gets in the way of my writing. Mac dictation software has made me more productive.

Fortunately, promising research science efforts are making progress in helping the severely disabled with something called neuroprosthetics or neural prosthetics. That is, they are developing technology that can augment the nervous system's ability to control movement.

A few questions about the digital native / digital immigrant metaphor

When I think of the brain body connection, I usually don't think about flies. Those annoying household pests aren't high on my list for either intelligence or brawn. But I have to admit they are speedy little insects; much faster than me when I try to swat one.

From the page: "What happens to the brain body connection when one or the other is damaged? Adaptation is the answer, as it has always been. But todayâ€s developing technologies provide new choices. One of them is to substitute one part or function for the damaged one. Thanks to brain plasticity, this can work quite well."

From the page: "Things around you donâ€t have to be real for your brain body connection to work. In fact, the brain body connection might be able to handle more complex movements in a virtual reality than in everyday familiar situations. "

The brain body connection is always with us. One of the most important aspects of it is the sensory motor learning we all go though as infants, toddlers, and beyond.

The thing about the brain body connection is a brain isn't just a brain, and a body isn't just a body. I've never seen one walking around without the other. An eye can't do the vision thing without the meat and nerves being connected; neither can an ear or any other sense.