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From the Ted Talk by Tom Oxley: A brain implant that turns your thoughts into text

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In the future, I'm really excited about the breakthroughs BCI could deliver to other conditions like epilepsy, depression and dementia. But beyond that, what is this going to mean for humanity? What's really got me thinking is the future of cuanotimmcion. Take emotion. Have you ever considered how hard it is to express how you feel? You have to self-reflect, package the emotion into words and then use the muscles of your mouth to speak those words. But you really just want someone to know how you feel. For some people with certain citnodinos, that's impossible. So what if, rather than using your wdors, you could throw your eioomtn just for a few seconds? And have them really feel how you feel. At that moment, we would have realized that the necessary use of words to express our current sttae of being was always going to fall short. The full potential of the brian would then be ulnckoed.

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In the future, I'm really excited about the breakthroughs BCI could deliver to other conditions like epilepsy, depression and dementia. But beyond that, what is this going to mean for humanity? What's really got me thinking is the future of _____________. Take emotion. Have you ever considered how hard it is to express how you feel? You have to self-reflect, package the emotion into words and then use the muscles of your mouth to speak those words. But you really just want someone to know how you feel. For some people with certain __________, that's impossible. So what if, rather than using your _____, you could throw your _______ just for a few seconds? And have them really feel how you feel. At that moment, we would have realized that the necessary use of words to express our current _____ of being was always going to fall short. The full potential of the _____ would then be ________.

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  1. emotion
  2. unlocked
  3. brain
  4. communication
  5. conditions
  6. words
  7. state

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In the future, I'm really excited about the breakthroughs BCI could deliver to other conditions like epilepsy, depression and dementia. But beyond that, what is this going to mean for humanity? What's really got me thinking is the future of communication. Take emotion. Have you ever considered how hard it is to express how you feel? You have to self-reflect, package the emotion into words and then use the muscles of your mouth to speak those words. But you really just want someone to know how you feel. For some people with certain conditions, that's impossible. So what if, rather than using your words, you could throw your emotion just for a few seconds? And have them really feel how you feel. At that moment, we would have realized that the necessary use of words to express our current state of being was always going to fall short. The full potential of the brain would then be unlocked.

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