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How We Feel: Geoffrey Simmons on the Sensation of Touch

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948
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Geoffrey Simmons
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00:12:30
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On this episode of ID the Future, hear from CSC Senior Fellow & physician Geoffrey Simmons as he discusses the design behind the sense of touch. We’re now seeing attempts — such as a DARPA project that seeks to develop a prosthetic hand that can feel — to mimic the natural phenomenon of touch in medical technology. Simmons explains how touch works, and examines the possibility of scientists being able to imitate the design of sensation for technological use.

Geoffrey Simmons

Fellow, Center for Science and Culture
Geoffrey Simmons, MD, has authored seven novels, including The Z Papers, which sold 350,000 copies, and Pandemic, described by Publishers Weekly as “a hard lean thriller too fast to disbelieve.” His newest novel is Oppenheimer’s Demon, praised as “a riveting disaster thriller in which both the origin and end of man hang in the balance.” He has served as a disaster preparedness consultant to major US cities and is the former Governor of the American Academy of Disaster Medicine. His nonfiction titles include Billions of Missing Links and What Darwin Didn’t Know. A Fellow of Discovery Institute, he lives in Eugene, Oregon.
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