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From Discover Magazine | Mind & Brain:
Cyborgs have long been the stuff of science fiction. But now, through the work of scientists worldwide, they are springing to life. So how can you hook up a computer that communicates directly with your brain? Find out the truth about this astonishing science.
is a stiflingly hot summer day in Atlanta. Scientist and physician Philip Kennedy has a packed schedule, so he suggests that I interview him while he drives to the tiny town of Bowdon, Georgia, just east of the Alabama line. It's a journey he takes every Memorial Day to a small cemetery.
We park behind the redbrick Sandy Flat Baptist Church. The sun is blazing overhead, the glare from the white gravel parking lot almost blinding. But Kennedy knows exactly where he's going. He quickly walks through the simple graves carpeted by carefully tended grass, then stops and bends down. Visibly moved by private thoughts, the scientist touches a simple headstone and leaves beside it a tribute he wrote for the man buried here, a man he calls a hero.
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