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Do you ever dream of controlling stuff with your mind? Like machines sounds like a sci-fi movie plot. I know, but it is possible. Keep calm and watch.

So how let's go to our brain? Our brain sends messages to our muscles through neurons. Neurons, communicate through electrical and chemical signals. The electrical signals don't feel constantly through the neuron. Rather they come and go in the form of waves. Well, not these kind of waves, but this kind of wave.

This is what a neuron would look like when an electrical impulse is passing through it. When we move feel, think are pretty much to any activity, lots of neurons fire up causing electrical waves to shoot through them. With the help of electrodes and neural interfacing technology, we can gather electric neural signals and then send them to a machine like a prosthetic arm. And then that arm would carry out the action.

This sounds pretty simple, doesn't it? But how can we use this technology in a more useful way? Let's take the example of a person who has an amputated arm. When that person wants to move their arm, a message is formed in their brain. Think of this message as a URL. But when you go to that URL, you are met with an error page. There is a simple solution to this simply redirect that person to a functioning webpage. But how do we do that in our body? Well, it's also pretty simple. We simply reconnect the residue nerves from the amputated muscle to a functioning healthy muscle. This surgery is called DMR targeted muscle renovation. Now, when that person wants to move their arm, their healthy functioning muscle response, the signals produced by this muscle are sent to the prosthetic limb and the prosthetic limb carries out the action through similar technology. Restoring the sensation of touch is also possible. This breakthrough shows us that tiny things can have life changing consequences.

As we saw this technology, isn't about robots taking over the world. It's about helping people. How would you use this technology? Would you insert many electrodes into a monkeys brain and watch it eat bananas with prosthetic arms? As crazy as it sounds it has been done before. So it's time to get creative.