Would You Get a Brainchip?
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July 22, 2023 at 3:18 amAn April 11, 2023 a post on Neuralink’s Twitter account stated “Our thin, flexible threads are a few blood cells wide, minimizing the brain’s response to them. We use scanning electron microscopy to verify process control, understand defects and sometimes take glamour shots.”
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July 22, 2023 at 3:18 amThe current goal of the Neuralink implant is to allow a person to control a computer or a phone using only brain activity.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:19 amPreviously, Musk has tested the device on monkeys and pigs. A video was released in 2021 which shows a monkey playing Pong with its brain.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:20 amAnother video features a monkey using its brain to type a message. A third video shows a monkey charging its brain implant by sitting under a wireless charger. In contrast, humans could use a nightcap or baseball cap to charge their device.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:21 amWhile so far Neuralink is focusing on patients with certain disabilities, the long-term goal is much broader and will likely involve healthy populations.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:22 amOn July 19, 2020 computer scientist Austin Howard asked Musk if humans would one day be able to stream music directly to the brain (without earphones) via a BMI (brain machine interface), to which Musk replied, “Yes.”
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July 22, 2023 at 3:23 amAdditionally, Musk has stated that his implants may be able to stimulate the release of oxytocin or serotonin which are tied to feelings of happiness or euphoria.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:24 amHe compares the device to a Fitbit inside the head where “users can connect the device to their smartphone via Bluetooth and read the data coming from the brain.”
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July 22, 2023 at 3:25 amNeuralink isn’t the only company in the brain chip arms race. Companies such as Blackrock Neurotech, Paradromics, BrainGate, ClearPoint Neuro, Syncron, Neurable, and Mind X are working on their own wearables or implants to treat everything from blindness and epilepsy to anxiety and depression.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:25 amSome hope to implant brain chips via the bloodstream and thus eliminate the need for surgery. For some of these companies, brain tech is nothing new.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:26 amBlackrock Neurotech, for example, has been testing on human patients for over 20 years. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which is part of U.S. Department of Defense, has its own program called the Brain Initiative which explores BMIs and is supported by several federal agencies such as the FDA and NIH.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:27 amProjects include electrical prescriptions, brain mapping, memory recall and enhancement, nonsurgical neurotechnology, as well as brain stimulation to alleviate PTSD and substance abuse and addiction in soldiers.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:28 amOne of their latest projects, known as AI Forward involves artificial intelligence and national security.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:29 amA few of DARPA’s more controversial projects include thought-controlling weapons, infrared beams, speed learning, and mind reading systems. Genetic engineering of the human brain by inserting DNA into neurons is another ground-breaking venture.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:29 amPerhaps the biggest frontier for brain implants is the arena of memories, dreams and mind hacking.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:31 amMoran Cerf, a neuroscience professor at Northwestern University, discusses this subject at length, suggesting that one day humans will be able to “buy their dreams.” He believes that putting ideas into a person’s brain via dreams will influence the way a person behaves in their day-to-day life.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:32 amIn essence, dream control will help your life fall in alignment with the created dream. He speculates that companies such as Netflix, Hulu or Amazon could download this content directly into your brain.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:33 amSteve Hoffman, a Silicon Valley tech expert and CEO of Founders Space, spoke at a TEDx event in 2017 where he described the future of brain machine interfaces (BMIs).
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July 22, 2023 at 3:34 amHe asserted, “We will have brain chips in humans and the brave people who will get those brain chips are people who suffer from severe medical conditions.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:35 amSo, if you have a severe medical condition, like you’re paralyzed from the neck down, or you suffer from a brain disorder like Alzheimer’s disease, or Parkinson’s disease and that brain chip can restore your quality of life, would you hesitate to get the chip?
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July 22, 2023 at 3:36 amNo, of course not. You would say, ‘Put the chip in my brain.” Hoffman foresees brain chips being used not just for medical conditions, but within healthy populations around the globe.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:37 amCiting rat studies where knowledge was instantly transferred from one animal to another he explains to his audience, “There will come a point where if we have a chip in our brain and you have a chip in your brain, we can communicate–we could communicate without talking–we could communicate when you’re halfway around the world and we can exchange knowledge.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:38 amSo, if you look at a world where we have these chips that are connected to the Internet, all of a sudden, every piece of information on the Internet becomes accessible to our minds…when we look back at today and we have to go to Google and type it in, that will seem so primitive–nobody will do that.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:40 amYou will just think ‘what knowledge do I need’ and it will appear there for you to use. But it gets even weirder because we will not only be able to transfer knowledge, but we will be able to transfer memories…you could have an experience like skydiving and all of a sudden you could transfer that experience to a friend and all of a sudden, they have experienced what you have experienced.
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July 22, 2023 at 3:40 amIt gets even weirder because we will be living our lives as our lives…but you will all of a sudden have access to anybody’s life who wants to make it available to you… we won’t know the difference between our own memories and a memory we acquired from someone else.”
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