Curations for the Curious: Body Electric

Inspired by our Big Hero 6-like mindflex game (which uses an eeg chip to run a motor), we were curious about the body electric*

Our bodies are electric. in fact check out this great website by young neuroscientists that says
"humans really are batteries, and the brain contains more than 80 billion of them.  Even crazier is that each of these batteries contains four times the electrostatic force that normally results in lightning during a thunderstorm!  Perhaps the Matrix was on to something when it decided to use us as its power source! "
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https://knowingneurons.com/2012/12/14/brain-battery/

More about moving things with our minds 

Telekenisis is a sham, but we can use our minds to move things this way
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/25/17611812/brain-controlled-robot-arm-supernumerary-bmi
and 
https://futurism.com/mind-controlled-robotic-arm-johnny-matheny

More about EEG
An EEG measures brain waves. Mayo clinic says,"our brain cells communicate via electrical impulses and are active all the time, even when you're asleep. This activity shows up as wavy lines on an EEG recording."  In fact epilepsy is a disorder of seisures caused by "bursts of electrical activity in your brain, sort of like an electrical storm"

Literature moment:
* Walt Whitman's poem did not originally use the word electric, as electricity was not well known so he added the term a few years later in a second edition. The poem derides slavery, reinforces equality of gender, race, and sex, and asks existential questions about what makes us "us".


More about this topic:
https://knowingneurons.com/2012/12/14/brain-battery/
https://www.inverse.com/article/49422-smart-devices-will-soon-tap-their-human-owners-to-extract-energy


Related post, including videos to watch and a view inside a controller.
​http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/news-and-thoughts/big-hero-6-and-the-maker-movement

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