찾아야 하는 페이퍼는 관심 밖이고 난 지금 뭐하니

In l'Ultime Secret (a novel by Bernard Werber; 베르나르 베르베르의 <뇌>) a physically paralyzed man has the dream of controlling the world with the his one intact body part--the brain. Back in the days, I thought it was creative of Werber to dare think that the human brain can act upon the physical world with no help from external limbs. And I was somehow persuaded that we are pretty close to that day...even without much knowledge in neuroscience.



A paper published in Nature says that patients with severe epilepsy "have used mind control to change images on a video screen. In other words, we can purposefully strengthen or suppress an idea/image to deliver what's in our mind to the external environment.
"생각만으로 세상을 바꾼다"는건 비유적인 표현만이 아닌 세상이 벌써 온걸까?

First of all, the field of brain-machine interface is still overwhelming.
But we've already made a man move a computer cursor to remote-control the robotic arm with his neural activation (a chip was transplanted in his motor cortex).

And today's biomed seminar was on designing a genome sequence the way clients want. Designing a DNA set. Tailoring certain characteristics into a Life.
What's next? Where are we walking into?

Here is the link to the Nature News article: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101027/full/news.2010.568.html

(I have the paper, pdf.)

and below is the video that explains the procedure. Warning: content contains images of the real brain (juicy!)




my question,though: but if you attempt to suppress ideas, you'll notice that it's harder to do so; conversely, you will end up thinking more about it. Wouldn't this interfere with your purposeful "move"?