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A teenage epileptic being treated at St. Louis medical center is an adept expert at playing Space Invaders... with only his indomitable will, the flickering of the tongue and a colander slapped on top of his head.
What's odd about the experiment is that he's able to control his space ship by thinking about moving his tongue left or right. Not actually moving it, merely by thinking of moving it.
This is actually a fascinating neuro-philosophical question, the sort of thing Daniel Dennett would go apeshit trying to work out. Is it even possible to think about moving your tongue without moving it? Doesn't that imply that when you think about moving your tongue, there's two signals being fired in your brain: one that actually moves your tongue and the other one telling you that you're thinking about moving your tongue? Obviously, for this to work, you're separating the two signals: so actually, Space Invaders only reacts to the "tongue-think" signal. But if you asked this kid to think about thinking about moving his tongue, would he still be able to play Space Invaders?
Yeah, yeah, you could go on like this forever.
Teenager moves video icons just by imagination [Tony Fitzpatrick, via The Last Boss]
