2013年2月19日 星期二

Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really.


- The sound of brainstorming
- Billion of cell to capture

- 10 years ago, benchmark (monkey) artificial arm and real arm in real time ( < 0.5 sec)
- Monkey uses artificial device to play game
- Also sending back artificial feedback





- NOW: Train animal to control avatar to explore the virtual world (send back virtual world feedback, that brain learn how to control artificial hand


Global Trip takes 20 millisecond less than the monkey brain to physical.

2013年2月18日 星期一

Esther Perel: The secret to desire in a long-term relationship




- Crisis of desire: free choice and identity
- This is the first time over the history, we are trying to experience sexuality in the long term: pleasure and connection

- Two human needs that we wish to reconcile

  1. Safety: Permanence 
  2. Adventure: Journey and Travel

This is often a crisis of imagination.

Love -> to have
Desire (sex) -> to desire ( to explore, an bridge to cross)

When do you find yourself most drawn to your partner?
Group 1
- When the partner is away./imagine to be together
- When partner is self-sustaining, from a comfortable distance, to a somewhat distance. See my partner in a mystery.

Group 2
No needs (care-taking) in desire, different to wanting them.

Group 3
When there is novelty: what part of thing you show. Sex is not a thing to do, but  a place to go.

Imagination is the center piece of erocticism.

Those who didn't die: worry, insecure, anxious can't experience erotic.
vs.
Those who came back to life: erotic as an antidote for life.

"I turn myself on/off when" vs. "what turn me on":

When I feel old, when I felt low self-esteem
vs.
Desire is a certain part of  selfishness in the presence of other.

Exploratory needs. Need to explore while at the same to be able to come back.


Few things to do:

- A lot of sexual privacy, erotic place
- Foreplay
- An erotic place, is a safe place for imagination
- Moon, cycle vs. fall right from the sky

- Committed love is presence