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Actors like Susan Sarandon and Whoopi Goldberg seem incapable of grasping that denying someone a government grant doesn't violate the right to free speech.
For example, in a common task such as reaching for and grasping a glass of water, a hybrid BMI would be fed with both brain and machine control signals; the intention of movement would be decoded directly from neuronal signals, leaving obstacle avoidance and grasping stabilization to the artificial control module of the system.
Technically, this could be analyzed as too much gain in the artificial control signal, which, in a realistic scenario, would likely result in oscillating behavior, jerky grasping, etc.
Instead, she is seen grasping the silicone sacs in two separate full-page photos, one captioned, "The nostalgic author holds on to her old implants."
In one of Saul Bellow's books there is a sentence, which I have never been able to find since I first read it, about grasping "the hot wire of publicity"--and not being able to let go.