OT: did you also know that Galen means insane in Swedish?
Now there are people with bionic arms and some quadriplegics are able to use a computer through electrodes in their brains. Anne did get the brainstem wrong, since it seems that the cortex suffices. We may not have brainships anytime soon, but I would expect to see quadriplegics move when they manage to bypass the spine and pass nerve signals using electrodes and wires.