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From the Ted Talk by Hugh Herr: How we'll become cyborgs and extend human potential

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The current amputation paradigm breaks these dynamic muscle relationships, and in so doing eliminates normal proprioceptive snoientsas. Consequently, a standard artificial limb cannot feed back imaoirfotnn into the nervous system about where the psiseorths is in space. The ptineat therefore cannot sense and feel the positions and movements of the prosthetic jiont without seeing it with their eyes. My legs were amputated using this Civil War-era methodology. I can feel my feet, I can feel them right now as a phantom awareness. But when I try to move them, I cannot. It feels like they're stuck inside rigid ski btoos.

Open Cloze

The current amputation paradigm breaks these dynamic muscle relationships, and in so doing eliminates normal proprioceptive __________. Consequently, a standard artificial limb cannot feed back ___________ into the nervous system about where the __________ is in space. The _______ therefore cannot sense and feel the positions and movements of the prosthetic _____ without seeing it with their eyes. My legs were amputated using this Civil War-era methodology. I can feel my feet, I can feel them right now as a phantom awareness. But when I try to move them, I cannot. It feels like they're stuck inside rigid ski _____.

Solution

  1. boots
  2. joint
  3. sensations
  4. information
  5. prosthesis
  6. patient

Original Text

The current amputation paradigm breaks these dynamic muscle relationships, and in so doing eliminates normal proprioceptive sensations. Consequently, a standard artificial limb cannot feed back information into the nervous system about where the prosthesis is in space. The patient therefore cannot sense and feel the positions and movements of the prosthetic joint without seeing it with their eyes. My legs were amputated using this Civil War-era methodology. I can feel my feet, I can feel them right now as a phantom awareness. But when I try to move them, I cannot. It feels like they're stuck inside rigid ski boots.

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Important Words

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  2. amputation
  3. artificial
  4. awareness
  5. boots
  6. breaks
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  16. information
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  20. methodology
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  30. proprioceptive
  31. prosthesis
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  33. relationships
  34. rigid
  35. sensations
  36. sense
  37. ski
  38. space
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  40. stuck
  41. system