Stephen Hawking's brain-wired wheelchair

As told 15

“his brain was directly and he just thought forward and his chair moved forward”
44:49 Interview at the Book Fair Leipzig2018-03-17 · 49:43

“Stephen Hawking no longer needed his finger, his brain was directly wired... Stephen Hawking thought 'Forward,' his wheelchair moved forward.”
49:39 Wikileaks Interview2018-06-02 · 1:04:51

“Stephen Hawking no longer needs his finger he thinks forward his wheelchair moves forward”
14:42 Interview with Slavoj Zizek2017-07 · 1:01:36

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 4 jobsuses

wired brain ×7 singularity ×2 intellectual intuition (intellektuelle Anschauung) ×2 four commons ×2

Its cast and sources

populated by

Stephen Hawking13 Liu Cixin2 Elon Musk7 Chelsea Manning3 Peter Mandelson2 Tim LaHaye2 Wolfgang Streeck2 Werner Heisenberg3

alongside works

Theses on Feuerbach2 Hegel in a Wired Brain3 When Google Met WikiLeaks2 How to Talk About Books That You Haven't Read2 The Three-Body Problem2 Neuralink2 History and Class Consciousness3 Left Behind2

Told together with

17% Asking Occupy Wall Street 'what do you want?' 3 shared talks 14% Bill Gates as rent-extractor from general intellect 4 shared talks 12% Alain Badiou takes phone call during Žižek's lecture 2 shared talks 12% Abu Ghraib: friends prefer not to know 2 shared talks 10% Remote-controlled rat 3 shared talks 10% Montenegro earthquake masturbation joke 2 shared talks 9% Lee Kuan Yew / Sloterdijk's monument question 2 shared talks 9% Kansas: from populist left to Bible Belt 2 shared talks 9% Light at the end of the tunnel is another train 2 shared talks 8% Afghanistan: from secular to fundamentalist 2 shared talks 7% Stalin's dialectical synthesis on money in communism 2 shared talks 7% Postmodern permissive father and grandmother visit 2 shared talks

Every retelling 16

44:49 Interview at the Book Fair Leipzig2018-03-17 · 49:43

A man who knew Stephen Hawking told Žižek that in his last years Hawking no longer needed to move his finger, his brain was directly connected and he just thought 'forward' and his chair moved. If the signal goes out, it can also go in: who will control this?, illustrating brain-computer interface danger,post-human capitalism

49:39 Wikileaks Interview2018-06-02 · 1:04:51

Before his death, Hawking's brain was wired directly to his wheelchair so that thinking 'Forward' moved it, used as the 'stupid' (Žižek's word) but illustrative example of the brain-digital interface erasing the mind/world distinction., illustrating brain-digital interface,human subjectivity,digital control

14:42 Interview with Slavoj Zizek2017-07 · 1:01:36

Hawking no longer needs his finger to move his wheelchair forward, he thinks it forward, illustrating how brains can be directly wired to a PC, changing the basic definition of what a human is., illustrating biogenetics and the definition of the human,technology-ai-cyberspace

~0:01 Freud Lives! with Stephen Grosz2017-10-05 · 1:15:36

Hawking no longer needs his finger, his brain is directly wired to move his wheelchair. But if it goes out it also goes in, raising the question of how we can be controlled once brain-computer interfaces allow two-way traffic., illustrating brain sciences and political control,limits and dangers of neuroscience

17:27 GCTH Lecture Series 1: Critical Postmedia2021-01-20 · 1:37:52

Hawking reportedly no longer needed his finger to move his wheelchair before his death, he only thought 'forward' and it moved, illustrating the divine-like dimension of direct thought-to-reality links., illustrating wired brain,digital control,thought-to-reality immediacy

26:07 What Does the Future Hold?2020-08-06 · 1:00:44

Just before his death, Hawking's wheelchair was wired so that thinking 'forward' moved it forward, a simple but functioning brain-computer interface illustrating the early reality of the wired-brain project., illustrating wired brain,Singularity,technology