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"The Master Puppeteer: How the Brain Controls the Body"

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The effortless ease with which humans move-our arms, our eyes, even our lips when we speak-masks the true complexity of the processes involved. This is evident when we try to build machines to perform human tasks. While computers can now beat grand-masters at chess, no computer can yet control a robot to manipulate a chess piece with the dexterity of a six-year-old child. How the brain is able to generate such skillful movement is one of the most intriguing questions in neuroscience and the focus of Daniel Wolpert’s talk.

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