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It feels weird that no one realized they could hook him up to one of those EEG devices that would allow him to control a computer with his brain activity. That
by grishka 6y ago
It feels weird that no one realized they could hook him up to one of those EEG devices that would allow him to control a computer with his brain activity. That way he could have a very narrow, but nevertheless a channel through which to communicate with the outside world.
- duskwuff 6y agoIn 1991 - 1994? The technology might have existed in some cutting-edge research labs, but certainly not in a day care center in South Africa.
- grishka 6y agoSure, not then, but by 2005 that technology must've already been available.
- icebraining 6y agoThey say he wasn't conscious for the first couple of years. So even if they tried at the beginning, they wouldn't have got anything, and then they just assumed he wasn't conscious.