New robotic device is controlled only by thought, no brain implant

It could help people with movement disorders, without surgery:

Beyond that, such research raises a philosophical question: If the mind is an illusion, how can it act directly on external things, by the force of decision-making alone?

“New Mind-Controlled Robot Arm Needs No Brain Implant” at Mind Matters News

See also: The placebo effect is real,not a trick But the fact that the mind acts on the body troubles materialists. Such facts, they say, require revision.

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